Right outside the bedroom window...

The days are getting shorter and the nights are cooler. Foliage has begun to turn to reds and ambers in the bogs. And the sunsets are spectacular.

A pair of Pileated Woodpeckers have decided to make sure we don't miss sunrise.

Click here to listen to their call..

Of course Sam n' Lu go on high alert.

Which way did they go??

Brother Brian

Return to Belgrade Lakes

I've been practicing walking on water. It's all about balance... isn't everything?


Actually the cottage is in the town of Rome. Our mailbox and the store are just across the lake in Belgrade Lakes (just behind me in the picture). We vacated for the past 3 weeks for other renters who return to Bob and Judy's little piece of heaven year after year. This year, it rained almost every day during the last week of July and the first two weeks of August... as it is today.
Our time away has been busy. Lots of meaning and purpose between being around for Connie's mom in Bangor, helping Ryan move and Katie resettle her apartment in Portland, staging our friend Rosie's camp (where we resided some during our exile) to put on the market in China, attending family gatherings in Standish and spending some fun time with good friends Bill and Jannie from Wisconsin and Mike and Karen in Waterville. The dogs are so confused that they don't want to get out of the van anymore.


It feels good being back here. Slept like babies with the sounds of rain on the roof and birds calling in the gray dawn.

My tongue in cheek response to questions of our recent whereabouts is "Well, we summered in Rome except that during the Olympics we spent 3 weeks in China..."

Gotta go bail the boats...

Dad's side of the family...

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Kate, Elise and Lauren enjoying a blue clay facial sitting on Whale Rock. Summer time and the livin' is easy...