Archive for June 2007

This is the big weekend…camping season is officially here…but there are fewer people on the roads than usual…I think it will be a more intimate camping week than we would normally expect. Why? Well, when we’re full to the gills, we pat ourselves on the back and we strut around like business moguls because our…

The hot and hazy days of summer are here. There’s a mist hanging over the bay, the porpoise are becoming regular visitors and the cicadas are singing…yup, this is what I’ve been waiting for. Here on Penobscot Bay we have two high tides and two low tides approximately every 25 hours. They are dramatic sweeps…

Sitting at my pollen covered laptop, I’m trying to sort out the difference between being philisophical and mundane.  I start each and every day with a simple prayer, please let me embrace this day as it is offered to me rather than wasting my energy trying to pummel it into the shape I think it…

It seems like I start every posting with a weather report…but today is picture perfect…85 degrees with a gentle, warm breeze…with enough rain yesterday to make all the plants look happy and healthy. As I write to you, I’m sitting on the back porch of the rec hall. I can see the ocean through the…

It’s cloudy and gray here today and this morning is quiet…a pleasant change from yesterday when 80 seventh graders from the Belfast Middle School came piling out of two buses at 9:00AM…a sight that always makes me wish I had drank more coffee 🙂 These were great kids here for a day of history, science,…

It’s a soft, warm, breezy morning here on Penobscot Bay. I got up early to weed the gardens and found our first irises blooming and one of our peony bushes has started to burst. We’re hosting a wedding this coming weekend so I’m hoping that the weather will stay cool all week so that the…

If I haven’t mentioned it before, our region has a very difficult time with promoting tourism…but I guess that’s why we are such an authentic place to visit. We were having dinner a couple of nights ago with a few Searsport friends and it wasn’t long before we were talking about how the state seems…

A few weeks ago I lost my beloved canine companion Taz.  We were rarely ever apart and when he died of a heart attack I was lost…I saw him everywhere from the corner of my eye.  Like so many people I was certain I didn’t want another dog but Monday everything changed.  It was cold…

Wow, this might be harder than I thought…when I started this blog I pledged to write three times a week…and up until now I’ve been managing either twice or three times…but the season started and Friday got here before I knew what hit me…but not to worry, I think I’ve found a new strategy…I’m going…