The coast of Maine

Lobster and more Lobster! Perfect weather! Wonderful fibers! It all came together during our short vacation to coastal Maine.

I taught Art Cloth at the fiber college in Searsport, Maine on Friday, the 5th September. Such a lovely campground. Right on the Penosbscot Bay in Mid Coast. The fog rolls in and out. The oil tankers come and go. (The bench and woods are on the coast at the Searsport Campground.)

But the water is sooooooooo beautiful. Lots of sailboats, fisherman, interesting rocks, birds, etc.

Coastal Maine is always lovely. Here is a photo of Young's Lobster Pound from the harbor at Belfast, Maine. Belfast was an old mill town but is now filled with art galleries and artsy shops, good restaurants, etc. At Youngs', we ate a full Lobster Bake and it was fabulous. While we were there, several thousand pounds of lobster were loaded onto a truck bound for Canada to be processed for the lobster meat and sold off from there.

Coming home, the pancakes at Moody's Diner were terrific.

We stopped in Freeport to see if there any irresistible specials at LL Bean. Wow - that town has boomed in the last 15 years.

I found a winter parka for 30.00!

On to Portland. At the port, the best New England Chowder in America is at Gilbert's. They didn't let us down. We shopped for more lobster at the port, drove to York Harbor for a walk and came home. Hurricane Hanna was kind to us - she came through at night - we had perfect weather and a good time.