Today is a time to be both wistful and hopeful here. Wistful because Summer will officially end today and the boatbuilding classes at the WoodenBoat School will soon end. The School is a place of perpetual Summer smiles; partly finished boats still grace its campus like garden statuary, but these soon will disappear and be finished elsewhere.
The students’ lively boats that played in the Summer winds of Great Cove are being dragged ashore to lifelessly undergo power-washing and storing:
On the other hand, there is the hope in seeing Great Cove resurrect itself into its wilder form. That is a time of everchanging natural beauty – extraordinary light and fog, still and rough water, increasingly brilliant sunsets, and sheltering winter wildlife. (Brooklin, Maine)