Breakfast happy

Ah, Evin created some good magic with this morning's breakfast. I can't give the egg dish a name, but... eggs, cracked open on top of black beans and chick peas and corn along with some extra flavors, then baked. It was a protein fest with amazing flavor.

Good food, conversation, a chance to look forward to today's wandering spots...

My target for this morning is the Schoodic Peninsula. It's about an hour's drive from Bar Harbor to Winter Harbor, the start of the peninsula drive, and it's well worth the travel time.

Ribbon of road

The road extended to the northeast, a ribbon of gray wending through trees in varying shades of green.

Somehow I managed to control my urges to stop on the side of the road as it crossed water, showing reflections of trees and blue sky in the quiet water. Stopping on a highway to play with my camera isn't a good idea, tempting, but... yes, I behaved!

Now I'm happily settled in the Ship Harbor room at the Holland Inn. So comfy...

Tomorrow will be a good day for wandering.

Morning iris

To the northeast

I was using Denise's computer today when I saw an email come in from Evin at the Holland Inn. Oh, look! It was a confirmation of a reservation for this Friday! I know that Denise has been watching the weather, trying to find a good time for a visit to Acadia National Park.

The weather wizard is predicting a good swath of days so Denise is keeping her fingers crossed and we're popping up to Acadia for four days of wandering. We have a lot to cram into our four days... the Schoodic Peninsula, wandering Park Loop Road more than once, sunset on Cadillac Mountain and maybe a sunrise too. I'm going to need to push Denise out of bed for sunrise though. Yikes! sunrise right now is at 4:59 with civil twilight beginning at 4:24. Hmmm... I wonder what time we would need to hop in the car in the morning. Let's see, what else? The gardens in Acadia and Northeast Harbor must be showing some bright colors, and there's Bass Harbor light, and...

Only two sleeps before we leave!

--- Rover

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Just a reminder for those In case you haven't seen my blog entries before... I always write with slanty letters, so if you're reading and you see entries with slanty writing - I wrote that entry. Denise's entries use straight up-and-down writing.

Poppies in orange

Tulips fade & iris pop

Wild lightning

I think I was lucky to end up in my chosen destination today. I flew to Philadelphia for a weekend away, and when we landed...

There were big storms in the air, storms that closed part of the airspace. We left Manchester a little late as we waited for a routing around the closures. We landed in Philadelphia close to on time. Then it was time to pull off of the runway and wait.

The pilot made an announcement that the ramps were closed due to the storm, and that until the airport reopened the ramps we would be sitting in the plane. Ah, at least we were on the ground. I wasn't sitting next to a window, but I could still see frequent flashes of light and heavy wind-driven rain. It was a forty-five minute wait. At least we were on the ground and in our target airport.

Finally, we pulled to the gate and deplaned. As I walked down the concourse, I could see a mostly clear sky decorated with high flung clouds (through the windows) to the right, and an absolutely black sky to the left. As we drove, there were still jagged flashes of lightning decorating the sky. Beautiful.

Open

Simple things

This has been a somewhat wacky week so far. My late afternoon wander was very much needed, a view of the simple things.

My walk started with a conversation with a rabbit. I opened the door and stopped. I looked at the rabbit, the rabbit looked at me. What a beautiful creature!

One wheel

I saw a cyclist riding a bicycle on one wheel today. I've seen people riding unicycles before, but this was a small-wheeled bicycle.

The rider looked very comfortable, pedaling, moving forward. The rear wheel was (obviously) on the ground, front wheel raised, frame at an angle to the ground. There seemed to be a magic balance point. I wonder how long it took him to learn that somewhat odd skill.

Oh, don't worry - I'm not going to try it!