2006 Maine Photos

Philippians 3:10

MATURE • MENTOR • MINISTER • MAINTAIN • INVESTING IN BLACK FUTURES THRU STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Maine Coast Vacation - Mount Desert Island and Deer Isle - July 2006

Boats, bays, blue water, birds, bugs, buoys, a B-17 bomber, bridges, buildings, Bambis,
a beached blob, brooks, boulders, blueberries, balsam, barnacles, etc.

For an interesting study, take note of how things "grip" in most of the photos below.

To read the annual Maine blog that goes along along with these photographs, please click here

Pied Beauty
1877
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

Glory be to God for dappled things —      For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;           For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;      Landscape plotted & pieced — fold, fallow, & plough;           And all trades, their gear & tackle & trim.                All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled, (who knows how?)      With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;           He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:                Praise him.

From Philly to Kittery in about 7 hours — car-topping the Passagemaker Dinghy worked out surprisingly well

Nubble Light's always a nice photo op

Downeast Maine's Mount Desert Island:
where the mountains meet the sea 

The extra-large lobsterboat, Amy Sui, is hauled out of the water at the Manset Dock in Southwest Harbor

The mountains of Mt. Desert Island's eastern side

.A cormorant "represents" (ar-ight, he's drying his wings) in Seal Harbor on the southeastern side of M.D.I.

Spruce-topped granite ledges meet the blue sea just outside of Seal Harbor

East Bunker Ledge south of M.D.I. — sort of scurry if you don't know the waters or have a nautical chart

"Hummer" moored in the harbor, weighed down by rain water from a bombastic thunderstorm the night before

Molded fiberglass lobsterboat awaits customization near Tremont, ME

John's lobsterboat in Southwest Harbor — click here for some lobstering photos taken aboard this boat in 2003

Wild blueberries at the campsite — ate about 300 of 'em before buying 2 quarts at a couple of roadside stands

A young balsam tree takes root amidst the rocks . . .

. . . while a young pitch pine gets established amongst some blueberry plants and lichen

Tremont Congregational Church, Bass Harbor, ME

The Bass Harbor Light's fresnel lens

Balsam roots hold it down as they grip the fragrant needle-strewn forest floor

A woodpecker works the bugs out of a birch tree

A spider that I truly hope never tries to make its way into the tent

One really fly dragonfly — look at the structure of its gossamer wings and note how it holds on to the twig!
It's really bugged what our Creator God has set out in the realm of nature.  Click to enlarge.

A busy fuzzy bumblebee browses the neighborhood . . .

. . . then puts its left turn signal on

A lobsterboat off the port bow skirts the edge of a fog bank near Greening Island in Southwest Harbor

Harbor bell nun #10 between Bear and Sutton Islands:
as the buoy rocks, the bell strikers fall.  Bangin'!

The Amy Sui is put back into the water after some steering repairs were completed

The 1944 B-17 bomber Arizona at the Bar Harbor Airport in Trenton, ME

 Made 2 trips over to Little Deer Isle & Deer Isle

The Deer Isle-Sedgwick Bridge over Eggemoggin Reach had a real "Matrix"-kind of feel to it

Fog-shrouded lobsterboats in Stonington Harbor at the southern tip of Deer Isle

This non-descript photo serves as proof we found the property where the 2004 movie Finding Home was shot

Spotted fawns in the rain just north of the town of Deer Isle

The Deer Isle-Sedgwick Bridge: heading back to the mainland and then northeastward back to Mt. Desert Island

Early morning water-soaked spider web — a very sturdy and ambitious construction

The morning sun finds its way through the trees to the campsite at Quietside Campground 

The beauty of the view through the tent's front door at the campsite's left me stumped

View through the tent's back window

Halfway Brook bubbles its way through the campground

The B-17 bomber Arizona ( pictured earlier ) flew overhead while I was out in the water

The mountains of central to eastern Mt. Desert Island — Cadillac (the tallest) is slightly to the left of center

Islesford's harbor scene, Little Cranberry Island

Peregrine falcons enjoy their high-rise view, 
courtesy of the United States Coast Guard

"Hummer" takes to the beach in Valley Cove on the western shore of Somes Sound

Jellyfish

The earth is the LORD's and the fullness thereof.  The rock face seen here plunges down into
Somes Sound to a depth of app. 138 ft.—making it the U.S. Atlantic coast's only natural fjord.

Barnacles bonded to a piece of salmon-colored granite found in Somes Sound

Pink granite boulder from Mt. Desert Island

Man O' War Brook tumbles down Acadia Mountain, emptying into Somes Sound:
19th-century frigates replenished their fresh-water supplies from this source

Zippin' by the Manset Dock in Southwest Harbor, later using . . .
Photo by C. B. Hepburn

. . . a tiller extension on the motor handle so I could sit on the middle seat and bring the bow down

Paparazzo C.B.H. (Dad) enjoyed his first voyage around Southwest Harbor and Greening Island

A bubbling brook passes under the footbridge near a picturesque boathouse in Betsy's Cove, Brooksville, ME

Dad takes on Eggemoggin Reach as we headed out to Little Deer Isle and around the Pumpkin Island Light

Short video clip of the voyage

Eggemoggin Reach facing southeast towards the Deer Isle-Sedgwick Bridge.  Click to zoom in on the bridge.

Pumpkin Island Light and a Maine schooner in Eggemoggin Reach on the eastern side of Penobscot Bay

Dad photographs a boathouse in Betsy's Cove in Bucks Harbor

The S. Brooksville store and church depicted in Robert McCloskey's 1952 children's classic One Morning in Maine

Dad in front of the former country store (it's now a gift shop)

Right up the road is Condon's marine outboard motor shop (also depicted in McCloskey's One Morning in Maine)

View of Betsy's Cove from the store porch in S. Brooksville — "Maine: The way life should be."  Indeed.

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