Milo in Maine

Winter Ocean

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:17:00 +0000

It's hard to imagine anything more breathtaking than a winter walk at Two Lights State Park in Cape Elizabeth.

The Common Ground Country Fair

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:58:00 +0000

We enjoyed a beautiful day last weekend at the Common Ground Fair in Unity, something we look forward to every year.

noreply@blogger.com (mh) — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:52:00 +0000

Hurricanes are the latest discovery of radio stations and they are being taken up in a big way. To me, Nature is continuously absorbing— that is, she is a twenty-four-hour proposition, fifty-two weeks of the year— but to radio people, Nature is an oddity tinged with malevolence and worthy of note only in her more violent moments. The radio either lets Nature alone or gives her the full treatment, as it did at the approach of the hurricane called Edna. The idea, of course, is that the radio shall perform a public service by warning people of a storm that might prove fatal; and this the radio certainly does. But another effect of the radio is to work people up to an incredible state of alarm many hours in advance of the blow, while they are still fanned by the mildest zephyrs. One of the victims of Hurricane Edna was a civil-defense worker whose heart failed him long before the wind threatened him in the least.
— E.B. White, from the essay The Eye of Edna, September 15, 1954 from the book Essays of E.B. White, one of my favorite books I’ve read in many years. Photo by Jill Krementz of White in his writing space in Allen Cove, Maine.

Source: Cabin Porn

Summer

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:27:00 +0000

Here in Maine, it's been a summer of drives up to the midcoast, rides on sailboats, bike rides around islands, out of town visitors, and glass after glass of iced coffee. We're not ready for it to end.

Merryspring

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:49:00 +0000

Merryspring Nature Center in Camden is a new discovery for us. What a lovely place to walk and admire perennials, roses, herbs, and groves of delicate birch trees!

Milo in Tokyo

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Sat, 28 May 2011 12:55:00 +0000

Our friend Max is traveling in Japan, and he brought a Milo in Maine cod tee with him! Click on the photo for a closer look.

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Thu, 26 May 2011 18:03:00 +0000

The flowering trees are in bloom and the sky is blue in southern Maine. Summer may finally come after all!

Snowshoe Day at Two Lights State Park

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:15:00 +0000

Portland Crows

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:11:00 +0000

One of our favorite things about early winter in Portland, Maine, is the fact that hundreds of crows roost in our neighborhood. Beautiful, stark, and wintery.

Information about crows in urban Maine can be found here.

Colby College Mountain Day, 1950

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:46:00 +0000

Picnic Portland Holiday Sale

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:07:00 +0000

We'll be selling select overstock and samples at the Picnic Portland Holiday Sale this weekend. Come by and visit us, and finish up your local holiday shopping at the hippest craft fair in town!

Thankful

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:08:00 +0000

A cold, windy, Thanksgiving week walk near the Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth.

Prouts Neck Cliff Walk

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:34:00 +0000

There is no better month to walk along the breathtaking Cliff Walk than November. The waves are wild, the path is quiet, and the winter berries are brilliant.

Beach Collection

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:23:00 +0000

Things we found on the beach while walking along the cliff walk at Prout's Neck. They remind us of an Ernst Haeckel illustration!

Canoe Catalogs

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:59:00 +0000

Images from historic Maine canoe company catalogs published in the early 1900s.

Stonington

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 14:37:00 +0000

We love driving down the Blue Hill Peninsula, crossing the gorgeous suspension bridge to Deer Isle, and following the road to where it ends, in Stonington.

The town is vibrant and busy in the summer, quieter this time of year but still humming with life.

Acadia

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:49:00 +0000

Just a few images from a late fall weekend spent in spectacular Acadia National Park, including a hike up Gorham Mountain Trail and around beautiful Jordan Pond.

Maine Huts and Trails

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:00:00 +0000

Maine Huts and Trails is offering a new winter/spring season pass allowing unlimited short-term stays in their gorgeous rustic lodges from December through June.

Grand Falls is their newest hut, which opened this October and is located below the spectacular Grand Falls in Kingfield, Maine. Finally we're getting a little excited about winter's approach!

Portland Headlight

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:06:00 +0000

Portrait of the Portland Headlight in Cape Elizabeth by William Aiken Walker, painted in the late 1800s.

The End of Apple Season

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:22:00 +0000

As we enter the second half of October, we're fast approaching the end of apple season in southern Maine. We took advantage of another beautiful weekend to visit two orchards, Thompson's Orchard in New Gloucester, and Hansel's Orchard in North Yarmouth. While Thompson's was picked nearly clean (they have excellent apple cider doughnuts, though), Hansel's still had plenty of trees weighed down with perfect apples.

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noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:46:00 +0000

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Maine Crow

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:25:00 +0000

Willard Beach in October

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:49:00 +0000

The beach is even more beautiful in autumn than it is in the summer.

Apple Acres Farm

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:56:00 +0000

Antique Maine Postcards

noreply@blogger.com (Milo in Maine) — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:42:00 +0000

From our antique postcard collection -- The First Parish Church in Portland:

The shelter at Deering Oaks in Portland, where they used to have paddle boats!