Still manly and mainly in Maine

Good Morning from Scarborough, Maine on the southern coast just outside Portland. Beautiful fall weather here, highs in low 60’s, and evenings in low 50’s. The trees are turning, mostly the sumacs right now with oak and maple not far behind. Interesting to see the pockets of color as you look into the forests. Seems to me they do better job of cutting here in NE, much less sign of any clear cuts.

The park we are in has 750 sites with only 10% occupied. As soon as Labor Day passed the parks became deserted and quiet with the kids back in school. Weekends pick up a little. This is one of the best parks yet. So many trees. Had to be careful driving in not to hit any. 4 swimming pools and kayak and canoe access to a great marsh/estuary. Will try the canoes this afternoon.

For those of you who wanted to leave comments on the blog site but were having trouble, I have fixed the problem. So little comments like “Tom, keep your day job” are fine. But remember, I have such a thin skin that I bleed easily. Naw, use both barrels.

Driving in farm country the other day we saw a herd of cattle with white blankets on. As we got closer we realized it was their color. They were black with perfectly geometric band of white around their middle, making them look like they had blankets on. Definitely some genetic foreplay going on in this area, as we also saw some goats a mile later that had llama pelts and calico colors. Suzy and I held our breath until we had passed out of this little GM experimental area.

I miss Acadia. We had such a wonderful time there. Think we will head west to the White Mountains of New Hampshire, then south to Massachussets then west to Conneticut. We will do NY city by train from Conneticut. That is the macro picture for now, all subject to change at the drop of a hat. And I have a few hats to drop.

We have been in Maine for two weeks and it is on the top of the states visited so far along with Colorado. Of course Canada was wonderful and our favorite was New Brunswick, but we enjoyed all the maritime provinces.