keys to the house in maine
my dorky hat
There's not much to look at on the drive up
Going over a bridge provides a rare dose of scenic excitement
Ye Olde Nyew Englande
Once you get close, it starts getting real pretty real fast
Yes, I think mud flats qualify as pretty. These ones, at least.
the pump house. I don’t think anyone calls this little building their home (maybe a few squirrels) and I don’t think anything is pumped here, but it’s an excellent arrival marker
View from the porch of the "Up House" (guest house. That's the corner of the "river house" - main house - in the photo.)
Of course I am reading instead of looking at the view. (Special Topics in Calamity Physics*)
Dave studying in the Up House (plus our messy crap all over the counter.)
We went for a hike amongst tall, skinny pines
salt marsh. Mmmm, salty...
Ovenmouth tidal inlet. I love the way the trees come right down to the water in Maine.
Plenty of red and yellow toadstools but where were all the fucking gnomes?
Goggies.
* which I liked, if not loved. The ending kind of fell apart and I thought the whole book was a little bit too pleased with its own cleverness and overwritten. Very Secret Histroy-ish. But still fun - I liked the voice overall. And I'm a sucker for the adolescent narrative. But Special Topics is not a patch on Black Swan Green for capturing adolescent angst.
