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2009 Maine Photos
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The righteous are as bold as a lion. Proverbs 28:1

Philippians 3:10

MATURE • MENTOR • MINISTER • MAINTAIN • INVESTING IN BLACK FUTURES THRU STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Maine Coast Vacation - Little Deer & Deer Isles and Mount Desert Island - August 2009

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Pied Beauty
1877
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

Glory be to God for dappled things —
     For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
          For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
     Landscape plotted & pieced — fold, fallow, & plough;
          And all trades, their gear & tackle & trim.
               All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled, (who knows how?)
     With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
          He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
               Praise him.

"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea."
Tagore - Bengali poet and novelist

Mount Desert Island, off the Maine Coast

Young balsam pines in the Maine woods

The red squirrel (pictured earlier) was stripping stringy pieces of bark off this cedar tree. Gettin' ready for winter i guess.

This clever float was used in a parade in Southwest Harbor earlier in the summer of 2009

No moose were harmed in collecting these antlers (although they can injure themselves trying to get them off)

Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound. Their webcam (below) faces south across Mt. Desert Island's western side

T.B.L.P.'s webcam (Quietside Campground is located behind the mountains to the far right in the picture)

Low tide at the Upper Town Dock

Former Southwest Harbormaster Gene Thurston's lobsterboat — the can over the exhaust pipe keeps the rain out

Lobster traps await the deep atop a Southwest Harbor float in a light fog

Maine vacation tradition: classic Downeast Maine breakfast on the southwest side Mount Desert Island

Balsam pine curly Q. There's a really deep lesson to be learned here . . .

Bass Harbor Lighthouse granite shore

Rust slakes arranged in a heap beneath a large bell at the Bass Harbor Lighthouse

"Notice to Mariners"

Bass Harbor Light beacon, August 22, 2009

One of the roads to the sea off Clark's Point Road in Southwest Harbor

Shawn Clements takes his wooden lobsterboat, Beth's Desire, back to her mooring after dropping off his catch at the Manset dock

Hummer car-topped at Manset dock the day before leaving Mount Desert Island

Maine Wild Blueberry Ice Cream, gotten at Gott's Store. Gott's . . .Store?
This, the twin lobster dinner for $18 at the Moorings Restaurant in Manset,
& 2 Quietside Cafe pizzas (in SW Harbor) comprised dinners for the week.