Maine


Bradbury Mountain Snowshoeing

Bradbury Mountain Snowshoeing

Snowshoeing Bradbury MountainPhoto album from our snowshoe trek at Bradbury Mountain. It was our first trip out this New Year and it was great to be in the woods. While we were out there I actually let it slip that I might consider winter camping if there was a way ...

Yarn

Yarn

I'd like to become proficient at crochet and eventually knitting so I can justify buying beautiful yarns. I'm like a kid in a candy shop when I'm around farm grown and homespun wools. After seeing the mounds of wool at the farm in December I needed to come up with ...

Why I love Maine, reason number 36:

Why I love Maine, reason number 36:

The term "off the grid" comes up fairly often in conversations & media (at the least with the people I know). And when you bring it up people know you aren't talking about drawing your line off the graph paper. If you know what I mean. I have fantasies of ...

Wolfe's Neck Woods snowshoeing

Wolfe's Neck Woods snowshoeing

Today's snowshoeing was absolutely gorgeous, chilly certainly but so beautiful I felt like jumping up and down for joy. And I did just that trying to keep warm! We went to Wolfe's Neck Woods State Park in Freeport and followed the Ledge Trail through the snow covered pine forest to ...

Deer Hill, White Mountain National Forest

Deer Hill, White Mountain National Forest

My parents are visiting for the Thanksgiving holiday so our weekly hike included them - what a treat! Our intention was to hike Blueberry Mountain in the White Mountain National Forest but we missed the turn off (not for lack of looking - as we drove back and forth on ...

Albany Mountain

Albany Mountain

Albany Mountain, White Mountain National Forest This weekend's hike was our first adventure in the White Mountain National Forest. After today's visit we are very excited about exploring this treasure more in the future. We even stumbled across a rustic campground we want to stay at next summer, not a ...

Bald Pate Mountain

Bald Pate Mountain

Another beautiful Sunday. We feel like God has been smiling on us for weeks. Every day we've planned to hike the weather has cooperated. The views from Bald Pate were so lovely. What a blessing to live in Maine. By the way, it's hunting season hence the orange blaze vests ...