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"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." ― Jacques Yves Cousteau This post contains affiliate links where I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you, but it does help support this blog and my coffee addiction. Thank you for your support! <3 The Maine Coast Happy May [...]
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.Dwight L. Moody Lighthouse Obsessed Maine is known for its' varying and stunning lighthouses. When the pandemic hit and I ended up staying [...]
"There's a quality of life in Maine which is this singular and unique. I think. It's absolutely a world onto itself." ~ Jamie Wyeth Bar Harbor in the Autumn Hello friends! Here is part two! Bar Harbor in the summer is dreamy, but in the Fall, it is an oasis! I don't think there is [...]
"Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin—inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night." ~ John J. Geddes Freeport, Maine Maine is filled with the most quintessential towns, which come Christmas time become decked out Winter Wonderlands that could have just come out of a Hallmark Christmas movie. There [...]
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." ~Albert Camus Autumn Flowers I feel like spring steals all the glory when it comes to flowers. Perhaps it is because we have all been cooped up and are just excited for warmth and to see new growth and living blooms come alive again. [...]
"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul." ~ John Dalberg-Acton Adventuring I go Hello friends! Happy Sunday! I hope you are all having an amazing weekend! I certainly am! There is nothing better then adventuring, especially if it is to a place that feels like the end of [...]
"To escape and sit quietly on the beach - that's my idea of paradise." ~ Emilia Wickstead Rediscovering places of old They say every ending has a beginning and every beginning has an ending so it was fitting that I began and ended summer in the same place: Ogunquit, Maine. I had visited Ogunquit as [...]
The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional flashes of white sand, the jasper stone beaches along the coast, the fire and fir [...]
"I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by." ~ John Masefield Back to Camden I go Last fall when I did my Maine road trip I stumbled upon not only the gem that [...]
“Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue.” – Thomas S Monson Chasing Maine Lighthouses Part Two Last Fall, I did an impromptu lighthouse tour on my way up to Mount Desert island. (MDI) [...]