Peace in a package

According to the calendar, we’re already working our way toward Spring…but luckily it doesn’t feel that way yet! It’s bone chilling cold outside, the goats and birds are puffed out like silly souffles on stick legs and the sea smoke is rising from the Bay. It’s a brilliant time of year for those of us…

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Counting Blessings

It’s hard to believe that only seven days sit between us and the turn of the year. The long nights and lingering meals allow our minds to wander and reflect on the wealth we’re fortunate enough to enjoy. Like everyone, our lives aren’t a Disney movie version of through the rose garden.  We’re occasionally grabbed…

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Give them Summer in Maine- A shameless plug

A gift of warm memories, brilliant inspiration and relaxed attitudes…isn’t that what we all want?  This year offer your loved ones a Searsport Shores gift certificate.  You choose the dollar amount and we’ll personalized a certificate that is unique…e-mail us a photo to include and the exact wording you’d like and we’ll send you a…

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The Last Weekend of the Season

It’s always so hard to accept that summer is over and it’s time to close up the cabins, clean up the gardens and pack up all the projects we have in the park.  I love that we live in a 4 season world but I always have a hard time letting go of one season…

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Playing Tag with Raindrops

What a wet month!…not that I’d trade our weather for what other parts of the country have been contending with…our collective empathy goes out to all who have more to think about than chilly breezes, abundant mud and hourly rain! Last weekend was our annual Ship Shape Clean Up and we are ever so grateful…

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A trying Spring

The world around us grumbled a lot about Winter… for us it was brilliant…lots of snow and cold weather which meant plenty of cross country skiing, hot soups and time for art projects. But then Spring really dragged its pretty pink slippers this year.  We’re still waiting for one of those energizing days when you…

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Picture Perfect

Tidepools, gardens, goats and honeybees…the four words we’ve decided encapsulate our image of Searsport Shores.  But in February there should be a 5th word…art.  This is the month we figure out the weekly artist in residence program that fills our summer with so much creativity and do a large amount of our planning for Fiber…

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Happy Valentine’s Day

I love Maine in February…it’s one of my very favorite months because the preparations and festivities of Christmas are behind us and there’s still a month of daydreaming, planning and fiber play in front of us. And don’t you think that once you’ve gotten past the anxiety of youth, Valentine’s day is a brilliant excuse…

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January is for Planning

December always seems to be a blur because of holiday decorations, parties and the inevitable bumpy shifting of gears from closing the campground to being closed. By the second week of January we’re rested, filled with happy memories and fueled to begin planning for the summer season to come…impatiently caught between enjoying our icy imprisonment (the road…

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