Do not adjust the color on your screen. If you are blinded by technicolor, you're seeing it just as it should be.
From Acadia, it's the Moss and the Gloss. (Or should I say, we're Likin' the Lichen!) First we have the girls in their birthday suits -- literally, that is: the bathing suits given to them for their birthdays. And then some beautiful moss/lichen growing on the rocks at the top of Cadillac Mountain.
Up at our rental in Southwest Harbor, it feels like a like a little bit of Nepal has snuck in. The owners have decorated their dock with these gorgeous flags, and I can't help but photographing them -- repeatedly.
Back at Cape Elizabeth, we stop by to see the rock at the entrance to town that is covered with messages, with the police chief's approval. The latest is the gift from a graffiti artist who was staying with my sister's family as an exchange student from France earlier this summer. Besides having special meaning for my sister's family, it's also generally acknowledged to be the best rock ever painted here. Yes, the town is even selling it on a sweatshirt.
Here's the colorful Cape Elizabeth ice cream stand.
And the birdhouses the girls paint are planted in Aunt Lisa and Uncle Paul's garden. Lucky birds!
And last but not least, a tradition, but one that is so colorful, I had to include it in this posting: picking bouquets at the local flower garden. Besides its physical beauty, what makes it so lovely and quaint is that there's just some scissors and empty vases hanging around, with a pay-by-honor system. Pick what you want and pay what's appropriate! Borrow a vase if you need one, and just bring it back with you the next time! (As opposed to Paris, where my wallet has twice been stolen -- from inside my bag and inside my pocket.) This time at the garden, in addition to my normal two beautiful models, I also have some little creatures that poses for me quite obligingly.
It's going to be really noticeable to go from Maine in technicolor, back to Paris in black and white!
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