Maine – Oh, the Places We See . . .

Goodbye but still around: Oh, the Places We See

We weren’t sure eleven years ago that we’d still be publishing posts, but here we are. Eleven years into the joy of blogging and 782 posts under our belts. But if there is ever a good time to end a good thing, then we think this is our time. We began “Oh, the Places We […]

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Celebrating 10 years with WordPress!

According to a notice from WordPress last week, we’ve hit a milestone: 10 years of blogging, 736 posts! And what a great decade it has been! What started as a lark has turned in to a commitment to keep the content and photos coming — about travel, about photography, about whatever strikes our fancy. Without […]

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #154: One Photo Two Ways

With a fabulous jump-start from Tina, this week’s photo challenge is a double take, in a sense. It asks us to share one photo that can be seen in two different ways. Although we’re novice photographers, we’ve found six simple maneuvers that show the same subject but in different ways using photos from a recent […]

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #152: Shades and Shadows

All the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. Leo Tolstoy Launching the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge this week is Ann Christine inviting us to share shades and shadows. With two trips under our belts this year, we’re finding shadows that we didn’t even remember as we review our photos and note them […]

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #122: The Sun Will Come Up Tomorrow

This has probably been the year that many of us have asked ourselves this question: What more can happen? We’ve endured a devastating pandemic, far-reaching forest fires, civil unrest, and the election (contested as it still is) of the 46th President of the United States that exposed our divisiveness. But through it all, the sun […]

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Seen and Noted 2018: Our Most Viewed Posts of the Year

It was about this time last year that those nice folks at Gallivance (Terri and James Vance) published Best of the Blog: The Top 10 Faves, and ever since then, we’ve wondered what you, our readers, would find fascinating among our ramblings for 2018. After all, we’ve been near (our home town of Knoxville) and […]

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Welcoming in so many ways: The doors of Castine, Maine

We’re not the first nor the only ones to declare Castine a tucked-away gem along the scenic coast of Maine. Joining us in affirming the charm of this historic Down East hamlet is Yankee magazine who named Castine one of the 10 Prettiest Coastal Towns in Maine. So it was with great pleasure that we […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Sunrise at Acadia Dock

Coastal Maine offers glorious sunrises if you’re willing to wake up early, bundle yourself in layers, and stand on a dock for the morning show. And you’re never alone. From birds gliding overhead to lobstermen checking traps before dawn, docks like Acadia in Castine put on a spectacle like no other. Dawn comes in layers. […]

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Elms of Castine, Maine

Considered almost sacred in Castine, Maine, are the stately elms hovering over private residences, shops, and the charming streets of this tucked-away town. Even the free walking tour map entitled “Under The Elms and By The Sea” focuses on two aspects of Castine that residents (permanent and sometime) and visitors look for year after year. […]

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WPC: Favorite Place — On board the Bowdoin on Penobscot Bay

Many people have asked us what our favorite place in Maine might be since our trip in the Fall of 2017. Of course, there are many, but for Tennessee landlubbers like us, sailing the Bowdoin on Penobscot Bay has to be a memory for a lifetime. It was the dream of Donald B. McMillan to […]