Here, we’re on Amen Farm ridge looking East. It’s a sparkling Noon on Thursday, October 18. The temperature is a reported 45 degrees (F), with wind gusts of nearly 15 miles-per-hour. We’re not dressed for this; but, it’s worth a few shivers.
Looming large across Blue Hill Bay is Acadia National Park, rising out of Mount Desert Island like a green whale. We can see the Park’s highest point, Cadillac Mountain, which is one of three places in Maine that are claimed to be where the sun first touches the United States in the morning. Now, the wind is throwing pillows of cumulus humis clouds at the Mountain.
If we had magic glasses that could see all the way east behind the Mountain, along our 44th Parallel, we’d see the much warmer coast of southern France. It would be six hours later there: time to relax at a café, sip a Pernod, and talk about beautiful places we have known. (Brooklin, Maine)