These are the rocks at Pemaquid Light house. The sea birds were all down by the area where the waves were breaking and they were sitting there with their faces to the stiff breeze. At least their feathers will not get ruffled that way.
Just a lucky shot of Pemaquid light house with the sun behind the building and lighting the clouds as well. I did not think that my Iphone would take this picture as it does not like to be pointed in the direction of the sun. However, this shot gives the lighthouse a halo.
This is the ocean side of Pemaquid with Bill Markham locked and loaded - well at least he was trying to make the binoculars work - but without the 25cents in the machine all we could get was a picture of Bill doing his best to see for miles.............
Another view from Pemaquid light house looking out to sea. It was low tide so there were not any really heavy seas to produce spectacular ocean spray.
these boulders prevent people from driving down onto the rocks to get a closer look at the ocean from the comfort of their cars. Actually these rocks (more like boulders) are used all over the place in Maine. They are from the Glacier Age and people use them for accent in their front yards. One house not far from where we live has them to stop slide off's from invading their front yard when the weather gets really bad.
This is a little inlet on the other side of Pemaquid.. You can easily see the high water mark and know that the tide is out for this shot.
I love how the sun on the ocean looks like a silver pathway into the eternities.
Wiscasset bay from the bridge going 10 MPH due to traffic. I tried taking pictures going 40 MPH but they were too blurred. Art the archiver says that Wiscasset is now a bedroom community tor folks who work in Boston. Well, it seems a long way to drive daily just to have the privilege of living in such a beautiful place like this.
Some homes from the Wiscasset area. I love the homes here. They are so charming, but they are also very big and I am not in love with housekeeping that much to desire to live in one of these many roomed manstions.
Another home in Wiscasset.
Another charming Wiscasset home.
This home could easily be in Lincoln Nebraska but it is in Wiscasset. Maine.
This home is definitely a New England Style home. I guess they either had large families or lots of money or both to build such large homes in the 1800's and early 1900's. It would be cost prohibitive to build a home like this at today's prices......and it probably would not look any where near as good.
We had actually started out on our trip on Jan 2 to go to Boothbay Harbor to see the little shops that they brag about being there. We headed out to Rockland, Knox county, where they boast about being the lobster Capital of the world. I guess you have to be there for Tourist season..........all the galleries were closed. so much for seeing Andrew Wyeth paintings this trip. So we headed down the coast looking for Boothbay Harbor and saw a sign that said Pemaquid. We veered off the road and headed for Pemaquid. What a beautiful place. It was all closed up but we could see the lighthouse anyway. On the way back from there we turned down another highway and saw a quilt shop. Stopped off and got some Lobster motif fabric. I am going to have a Lobster pillowcase out of this mission experience. They also had a darling little lobster stuffed animal on the display case and they gave me the pattern for it. I know that the Lobster pattern probably would not sell well in Arizona...............but here I guess they would have lots of takers.
We got to Boothbay but did not see any shops. Guess we will have to return some other time - preferably when it is warmer. We ate at the Chinese restaurant there.....then made our way home by way of Damariscotta and then Wiscasset. We took Rte. 9 home and found that it hooked into Rte. 17 in Augusta and was a much nicer ride than on the 201 from Gardiner to Augusta which is all torn up now by the road crews.
This was a nice trip and even though it was very cold the sun was shining and there was no snow and ice.
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