To celebrate Earth Day…we worked on the landscaping…not so different from the other days…but I kept my camera with me and took these shots throughout the day. Stewardship: “Stewardship is an old English term that came out of the feudal system during the Middle Ages. A steward was a caretaker or manager of a castle.…

I love these April days filled with sleet, freezing rain, heavy gray skies and cold winds.  I mean, why not?  Here are a few reasons why this weather is the most marvelous we could possibly hope for: The daffodils won’t blossom until Memorial Day…so things will look prettier when the campers are here to celebrate…

One of our local, weekly newspapers is the Midcoast Beacon. My favorite section is when they ask a question to a random group of people and publish one sentence answers. This week’s question was “How do you know when it’s really spring?” The answers I liked best were from Belfast residents. Dick Berry answered “The…

Dear Gretchen, of course we have weddings here at the campground…always at least one every summer…and sometimes we even know about them ahead of time.  (other times we see a serious looking couple standing on the beach with two friends, and an official…they don’t think we’re watching but we’re smiling none the less).   100…

To steal a line from my friend MJ’s Blog: “Visit Mary Jane Astrig and Follow Her Adventures”. Hmmmm…more like visit Mary Jane Astrig… and…mmm….stretch….yawn…. Really why does she even bother? Life is sometimes much too fluid to stop and ponder and write about it. I know it is a good exercise to write everyday…and I…

The tides are linked to the moon phases.  Whenever the moon is full or new we have greater extremes in water levels…which means we can walk further out on the bottom of the ocean and explore more distant tidal pools…and that high tide comes up further on shore, slowing our walks down to a careful…

Bob’s been working hard on the schedule, donations and food for this year’s Pine T ree Camp Fundraiser at Searsport Shores, July 29th- 31st.    We’re hoping to involve as many area businesses and organizations as possible.  If you would like to get involved making root beer floats or trying your hand at running a game…

Bob Ramsdell, the inspirational chairman of our town’s shellfish committee, and I headed down to Rockland yesterday to attend the shellfish management workshops at the 36th annual Fisherman’s Forum held at the Samoset Resort.  We wanted to check out what was happening legislatively and pick up what we could to better manage our own town…