An interesting tidbit about Maine: Dallas Metropolitan Area is approximately six times the population of Maine!!!
When we left Portland we went straight to the L.L. Bean Outlet in Freeport. John did a little shopping.
We continued on to Brunswick and went to the Bowdoin College Campus. Unfortunately, most things were closed since it was Monday, but we liked the campus.
The nearby wooden church was pretty interesting.
In Bath, our next stop, we saw the Marine Maritime Museum and the sculpture of the Wyoming, the longest wooden ship ever.
Inside the museum was a room dedicated to women photographers. I, of course, loved it!
Also, an exhibit of the Bath Iron Works:
We drove through Wiscasset and Damariscotta.
Our last stop of the day was at the Pemaquid Point Lighthouse.
And John’s pic of me taken from the lighthouse.
The Pemaquid Lighthouse is on the Maine quarter.
View of our dinner locale below:
And the bagpipes were played in the late afternoon as the sun got lower.
And after sunset!
In the morning we drove a short way for breakfast at Deb’s Bristol Diner in Bristol.
I didn’t come close to finishing and John ate a little of the blueberry pancakes.
We didn’t buy the sign above but would love to have it on our porch!!
We continued on north toward Rockland but stopped in Cushing to see more of Bernard Langlais whom we had seen earlier on the trip. We really liked his wooden sculptures. A docent at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester told us the name, the town & the address of where this was.
And my very favorite — Tricky Dick!
We passed this truck who had been put out to rest, but enshrined for all time!
We stopped at a lobster shack in South Thomason which was written up as having the best lobster roll in Maine…..but they were closed for the season 2 days before we got there! The views were nice though.
John said “Oh, man! I would have so bought that!!!” Maybe…..
We arrived in Rockland and went to the Farnsworth Art Museum. We first went to see the works of Louise Nevelson.
Then we were treated to a large collection of works by Andrew Wyeth. Some were well known, but the large collection was on loan from Japan and had not been shown in the US before. They were works done in and around the area of Cushing, Maine. Here are both ones in the museum’s collection and those on loan from the Japanese collection.
The painting below is Christina’s World, one of Wyeth’s most famous. The house in the background of it is the Olson house where Wyeth lived for some time and was the subject of many of his works.
The following is a photograph of Wyeth and Olson, the owner of the Olson house where Wyeth lived and painted for an extended period. The house is in Cushing and is currently being restored but not yet available for viewing.
There were other fun things:
Grandma Moses:
and Dale Chihuly:
We ended the afternoon with a stop by Rockport Marine Park. By the way, the weather forecast was for lots of rain. So far there was eight days with no rain and mostly bright sunshine and low to mid 70’s in the afternoon. WOW!
We checked into the Camden Riverhouse Hotel for the next two nights. More beautiful weather! And in the hotel lobby there are big glass jars full of candy and in the evenings, there are the fixings for s’mores and a fire just off the lobby where they can be roasted. We did enjoy one each night.
The lighthouse below was way out this jetty.
And just around the corner, more views. I love the Canadian geese basking on the swim island.
We drove into downtown Camden to shop for awhile and then have lunch…..and shop some more! Fun afternoon!
A park downtown had an interesting statue.
Next stop, Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park.
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