One Day on Mount Desert Island, Maine - Channeling Thomas Cole

Fun Fact: Thomas Cole used to summer on Mount Desert Island, much of which would become Acadia National Park.

Mostly Butterflies and Birds and the Seagull Who Stole My Lunch

Monarch Caterpillar on Milkweed - Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

Monarch Butterflies - all over

Swallowtail - Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

Not a Monarch - Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

Bald Eagle - Moose Point State Park

Note: no Moose

Glossy Ibis - Scarborough Marsh

Cormorant - all over

Deer - Several places. Yawn. Didn’t even bother trying to take pictures.

Trolls - Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

Seal - Schoodic Peninsula, Acadia National Park. Saw it on Shabbos, so no picture. You will have to take my word for it. It was extremely cute. You will have to take my word for that also.

Something With a Dorsal Fin - Schoodic Peninsula, Acadia National Park

Possibly an orca? A porpoise? The trick is, when you see seabirds circling a spot in the ocean, there is usually some predator in the area.

This is the Seagull Who Stole My Lunch - Schoodic Peninsula, Acadia National Park

This is how it went down. First, he landed nearby. He kept hopping closer. We shooed him away. And then! When I was distracted taking pictures of the dorsal fin pictured above, he swooped in from behind and grabbed the wrap right out of my hand! He gobbled down the wrap and left the filling. But the joke was on him! The wrap was low carb.

Porcupine - Somewhere in these bushes. He didn’t hang around to pose.

I’d never seen a porcupine in the wild before!

Barnacles and Mussels - Schoodic Peninsula, Acadia National Park

Second Bull Moose Sighting! - This time at LL Bean

On the Road Again! Hello Maine!

You may have been wondering why we dropped off the map …

Long story short, since we got back in March from our winter trip to Arizona, etc., Our V was in and out of the shop for months for repairs. Total incompetence at $175 an hour! But we did manage to get out of the house a few times since then.

Including...

Shavuot at Camp Moshava, Honesdale, PA. 

A wedding in Bethlehem, PA, a wedding in Lakewood, NJ, and a Bat Mitzvah in Trumbull, CT

A nice day in Long Branch, NJ.

A few fun days in Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware with two of our sons and our three grandchildren in June (plus a separate car, tent, screen room, lots of camping equipment, and a LOT of food). 

Last week was supposed to be a wedding in Montreal and a wedding in Staten Island, but turned into two weddings and a funeral (funeral in Toronto) and 1,200 miles driving in 3 ½ days.

And now we are in Maine! We hope to be here for about a month.

Great visits with family on the way up.

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