Here you get a grasshopper’s view of Mount Desert Island as seen from the fading lupines and rising grasses on Amen Ridge in Brooklin. MDI is Maine’s largest Island and contains most of Acadia National Park, as well as the tourist-popular Town of Bar Harbor. The puffy pillows above MDI’s western mountains appear to be cumulous clouds and the higher vapor trails appear to be cirrus clouds.
Below, you’ll see Great Cove at low tide, when its rockweed forest is laid to rest and its mud flats are exposed. At this time of day, there can be distinctive primal scents – fresh, briny air mingled with whiffs of fetid mud – that seem to awaken the old animal in me. The rockweed and mud will disappear under the rising tide, as will the scents, but they’ll be back.
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine,on June 21, 2026.)