Where the Wild Things Are

"People need wild places. Whether or not we think we do, we do. We need to be able to taste grace and know again that we desire it.

We need to experience a landscape that is timeless, whose agenda moves at the pace of speciation and glaciers.

Photo of Acadia , by my friend Ben Kimball

To be surrounded by a singing, mating, howling commotion of other species, all of which love their lives as much as we do ours, and none of which could possibly care less about us in our place.

It reminds us that our plans are small and somewhat absurd. It reminds us why, in those cases in which our plans might influence many future generations, we ought to choose carefully.

 Looking out on a clean plank of planet earth, we can get shaken right down to the bone by the bronze-eyed possibility of lives that are not our own."  - Barbara Kingsolver
 
Come visit Acadia National Park...."Where the Wild Things Are"

 

GramEpat has a few Acadia Pines Cabins still available in late June/early July . Email epat@epatFoster.com

to reserve your spot.



Getting Back Up is Living

I recently saw this quote posted on Twitter (@gramepat) and Facebook (Pat Cooney Foster) ...and wanted to share these words of wisdom...

An old woman once said.."There comes a time in life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh, forget the bad, and focus on the good. So love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, GETTING BACK UP IS LIVING."



"Pick yourself up. Dust yourself off. And Start all over again"

This 'old woman' loves 'getting back up and LIVING'...in Acadia National Park....

All the Old Familiar Places

Tonight as I was coming home from my office, I had all I could do to keep my eyes on the road and concentrate on my driving....
The sky was a kaleidoscope of colors...
I found myself humming an 'Oldie but a Goodie'...

"I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places "...

"I'll find you in the mornin' sun..."

"I'll find you in the mornin' sun"
"And when the night is new..."

"And when the Night is New"

"I'll be looking at the moon
But I'll be seeing you ! "
 

(I see you, Mom..."in all the old familiar places ...that this heart of mine embraces ...

...In everything that's light and gay. I'll always think of you that way." )

If you can't be with the ones you love, Love the ones you're with!

Belated Happy Valentine's Day Greetings to "the ones I'm with". 

Small Efforts...One Shovel Full at a Time

"I think I can...I think I can...I think I can... "One shovel full at a time"..
Eventually we'll be able to dig out from under!...

Long Pond Vacation Cottage

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier

"Come See the North Wind's Masonry"

Waiting for GrampE Bob to plow the driveway so I can eventually get to the office today.

Dressed to the 9's in 5 layers of clothing with my latest fashion statement: Ski Pole Accessories!

Pleasant day...(15 degrees Above instead of 15 Below)

Realtor GramEpat

The 'North Wind's Masonry' is getting piled pretty high. I'm beginning to wonder where Bob's going to put the additional snow predicted for this weekend. Gotta Love Maine winters!...



Somesville Landing on Somes Harbor


Come See the North Wind's Masonry.

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air
Hides hill and woods, the river, and the heaven,
And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end.
~~~~~
To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone,
Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work,
The frolic architecture of the snow~~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
My Piece of Maine
Acadia National Park

"The Landscape Belongs to the Person Who Looks at It"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote so eloguently about Sunsets.

( He was born in Portland, Maine )

"Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o're the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together."

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 "Then and Now" photos taken from

 "Our Piece of Maine"

("The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it".)

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Winter is "The Time For HOME" in Acadia

Winter-Time by Robert Louis Stevenson

Somes Harbor, Mt.Desert Island

Late lies the wintry sun a-bed,


A frosty, fiery sleepy-head;


Blinks but an hour or two; and then,


A blood-red orange, sets again...... 
 



Luv Acadia National Park!....

"My Piece of Maine"

REALTOR GramEpat

 

"~ Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire:
It is the time for home. ~ " Edith Sitwell