I went to the beach today! Ok, it was a slightly different experience than normal. They don’t plow at all until Memorial Day, so I had to hike in from Route 77, and parts of the access road were still completely snow covered because they’re in the shade. There were also remarkably few people there.

It being a gorgeous Spring(!) day, I absolutely couldn’t stand to hang around the house, so I headed out to Cape, and to Two Lights. I tend to avoid the park in the summer, because it’s fairly small, and often packed, but as you can see from the empty benches above, it was next to

I generally keep this blog focused on the positive things going on in my life, but I’ve had a bit of a rant building up, and perhaps by putting it here, Ill be able to look back on it some July and laugh, so here goes: Dear Winter, I’m over you. This is the semi-apocalyptic

So I officially live in the power armpit of Portland. We woke up with no power on Friday, due to the ice storm. By the end of the day, everyone around us had power back, except for my street. So, we stayed with friends in Westbrook for that night, and were pretty sure we’d be

We spent the weekend up in the Ellsworth/Mount Desert Island area. The definite highlight of the weekend was Saturday, when we wandered around Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor. The weather was incredible (though it was quite cold on top of Cadillac Mountain at 9 in the morning). The foliage was also just past peak,