Your Nautical and Coffee Obsessed Best Friend: From Travel to Fashion and Everything in between
"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls." ~Anais Nin Ready for Summer Not going to lie I am itching for summer. New England just got a deluge of snow, and while New York has escaped it for the most part, and even shown signs of cherry blossoms beginning [...]
"There is nothing so American as our national parks.... The fundamental idea behind the parks...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us." ~ President Franklin D. Roosevelt Acadia National Park I feel like this guide has been a [...]
And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken. ~ Siegfried Sassoon Wanderlusting Friends I had the most spectacular day back in June! I had a free morning before I was to meet my friend for a post birthday celebratory lunch (yes friends I [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
"There are always flowers for those who want to see them." ~ Henri Matisse Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Living in New York I always loved going to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. It was literally one of my favorite thing to do when I lived there and when friends visited they knew to expect a trip [...]