THROUGH MY WINDOWS

Acadia National Park Hi there! I know the proper word is "muddling" but I like my word better. Do you or your family have words that you have coined through the years and use without thinking, sometimes, when you're with others? And you get funny looks? Or a "what did you say?" Anyway... HAPPY SPRING!  Yes, I am still on the Island! And I'm mighty homesick! Thanks to corvid-19, I have not been able to obtain help for Mom. So far, we have been blessedly secluded from the virus but I do have to leave soon to visit our closest "city",  Ellsworth.  Population: 8000? It's not far from Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor. I go today to my retina specialist for an eye injection for macular degeneration. I have been having them for about 8 years.  My primary is in Bethlehem but I go to a doctor here in Maine also. Before the appointment I will hit  Wal-Mart for food shopping. The last time I was there the store was practically dese

WE THREE Oh, my goodness, I have really been out of it lately! Exhaustion from lack of sleep, body aches, and the list goes on. Just a big bundle of blah. Mom's poor body has ballooned with fluid again so we are quite the pair. And, not to leave out Bebe, the aged cat; she is tottering around wondering why her feeding schedule is all out of whack. A lot has been going on here one way or another. Her noontime daily raw scallop has lately been served closer to supper time. This is a picture of Bebe taken some years ago before kidney disease took over her life. She was a spayed stray that was living under an old shed. Mom started feeding her and eventually, she became a member of the family but with a definite attitude problem. No one but Mom could touch her and even she was limited to her back and tail. If you valued your life you never, ever, tried to pick her up! It was quite the undertaking to get her in the carrier and to the vet. It involved cunning, the art of a w

Good morning! It's sunny and very cold today, 18 degrees not figuring in wind chill. Yesterday, knowing that today was a day for staying in and writing this blog post, I cleaned the snow and ice off my car and headed out to do errands in Stonington, Blue Hill, and Ellsworth. Stonington, being at the bottom tip of the Island, covers a pretty large area and is particularly pretty most of the time but I have to admit looks downright drab in February! It's very hilly. Uniquely so.  And it has a lot of angles, as you will notice in my photos. Down by the harbor especially.  Houses, old and traditional, new and architecturally interesting, dot the hillsides side by side, front and back. Main street is extremely congested and  winds around the waterfront at the bottom of the rocky hillsides. It has restaurants, cafes, art galleries, gift shops, library, town hall, parking, grocery store, bank, and the list goes on. In the Summer tourists swarm to the area from both land and boat b