Yesterday was the kind of crazy beautiful Fall day that makes this my favorite season.     It was really warm (record breaking in Portland, in fact), which was a slightly strange juxtaposition with the leaves that have started to turn.    Still, I’ll take it when I can get it.

My sister and her BF were in from California last week, and since he’s a native Southern Californian, we had to bring him apple picking. I did get some regular old apples, but my big haul were some lovely, bright red crab apples, with which I will be making jelly at some point during the

This is another park I’d visited when I was a kid because my aunt and uncle live nearby.     It’s really fun to wonder around with kids.   I went with my cousin and her three oldest boys (the oldest I think was seven at the time) several years ago, and watching them wander through the fort

Finding this park turned out to be a bit of an adventure.   It’s signposted from Route 1, but the signs are then small, and harder to spot.     (Turns out if we had used the Gazetter, it actually would have been easier to find.)    As it was, we had quite a drive around various parts of

Cobscook Bay State Park is not much further up Route 1 than the turn off to Lubec.    There’s some lovely shoreline scenery in what’s starting to be the land of more extreme tides.   (Cobscook is the local tribe’s word for boiling tides.)     One cool feature is you can go clamming – there was a family

Jasper Beach is not a state park – it’s owned and managed by the town of Machiasport.      It’s not even labelled in our slightly older version of the Delorme Maine Gazetter (look for Howard Cove), but it is is sign-posted from Route 1 in Machias, and it’s worth the detour. It’s an interesting glacial feature

Oh, have I mentioned that our main day out was foggy, or rainy, or drizzly, or some combination of those?    There was some blue sky, I swear.  You can see it in the fourth picture, right? Anyway, Roque Bluffs has both an ocean beach, and a pond to swim in, which just may make it