Monday, February 20, 2012

A Visitor "With an Eye that Fires and a Spell that Charms"

We had a magestic vistor in our cove on Long Pond this AM... (sorry we could not get a close up shot)


The Eagle (by James Gates Percival)
Bird of the broad and sweeping wing
Thy home is high in heaven,
Where wide the storms their banners fling,
And the tempest clouds are driven.
Thy throne is on the mountain top;
Thy fields---the boundless air;
And hoary peaks that proudly prop
The skies, thy dwellings are.

This is how I imagine him this AM...circling our cove, looking for his breakfast
"My prey I seek with piercing eye,
grasp with talon strong.
Then lift into the endless sky
to sing my victory song."

"With an eye that fires, and a spell that charms " (James Gates Percival)

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Wise Trees Sleeping in the Cold

Winter Trees
By William Carlos Williams 1883–1963 

All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!



A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.

Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.

(Thank you, artist Gail Ribas for sharing your talent)

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Home is Where the Heart Is

"I wasn't born in Maine, but I got here as fast as I could"
(thanks to the recent AARP news for this wonderful quote)


I LOVE our piece of Maine!.
Happy Valentine's Day from Our Home to Yours.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

So Thankful for Our Piece of Maine

Watching the sunset tonight....was like watching Mother Nature photo-shopping the sky...
Almost as soon as our cameras clicked, new colors and deeper shades appeared on the horizon!


We are so grateful for our spot on Long Pond in Acadia National Park....
Happy Thanksgiving from our home to yours!

Saturday, November 19, 2011

"Oh the Places You'll go and the People You'll Meet"

What a great event at the Somesville Village Library this AM...
"Oh the places you'll go"(Dr. Seuss)
Our Little Library on Somes Harbor
A fabulous and fun Dr. Seuss Costume party and  free children's program... (click link for photo album)

("who says we can't carry on the fun of Halloween just a little bit longer")
The Library's Children's Program director, Jen Wales and helpers put together a wonderful collection of books from one of our favorite authors along with crafts, activities and of course- unusually colored snacks.

Many thanks to the staff , library board trustees...and volunteers....and to the many young families who attended the event. ("and the People You'll Meet")...
"You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed.
You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead."

"You'll be on your way up!
You'll be seeing great sights!"

"Wherever you fly, you'll be the best of the best."


"And will you succeed?Yes! You will, indeed!"
"And when things start to happen,don't worry.
Don't stew.Just go right along.You'll start happening too."
"Kid, You'll Move Mountains"
"There is fun to be done!
There are points to be scored.
there are games to be won."

"Wherever you go, you will top all the rest."
"With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet,
you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street."
"You'll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing".

"You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes....
You can steer yourself any direction you choose"
(gramEpat)

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

"Beauteous, Golden, Autumn days!"

Autumn Days (Author: Will Carleton)
Yellow, mellow, ripened days,Sheltered in a golden coating;


O'er the dreamy, listless haze,
White and dainty cloudlets floating;


Winking at the blushing trees, And the sombre, furrowed fallow;



Smiling at the airy ease
Of the southward-flying swallow.



Sweet and smiling are thy ways,
Beauteous, golden, Autumn days!

Sunday, November 6, 2011

"I Love the Stillness of the Woods."

I love the Stillness of the Woods
(Lewis Carroll )

I love the stillness of the wood:
I love the music of the rill:
I love to couch in pensive mood
Upon some silent hill. -

Thank you Stephen for the photo of Christin's Pensive Pose
Scarce heard, beneath you arching trees,

The silver-crested ripples pass;

Thank you, Michael Walsh for capturing the 'stillness of the woods' in Acadia
And, like a mimic brook, the breeze
Whispers among the grass. -


"Late Autumn....Acadia's Sweet Season"
Gramepat : Acadia Pines Rentals, Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine