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On The Road – JanieM – Mysteries of Maine (Maine #6)

by WaterGirl|  May 12, 20225:00 am| 10 Comments

This post is in: Maine, On The Road, Photo Blogging

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On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.

From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.

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JanieM

With this set, I leave the backstory to the imagination of the viewer.

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Cat on a Cold Stone Wall

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Destiny Machine

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Into the Woods

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Out of the Woods

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City Hall with Fir Trees

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Escapee

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Scattering

On The Road - JanieM - Mysteries of Maine (Maine #6)

Good Night, Moon

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10Comments

  1. 1.

    sab

    May 12, 2022 at 5:41 am

    That cat looks cold.

  2. 2.

    p.a.

    May 12, 2022 at 6:17 am

    I love the 2nd shot; it reminds me of the table-top soothsayer machine in ‘the other’ William Shatner Twilight Zone episode, “Nick of Time”.

  3. 3.

    eclare

    May 12, 2022 at 6:32 am

    Love the captions! That first photo is a Robert Frost poem come to life.

  4. 4.

    zhena gogolia

    May 12, 2022 at 7:24 am

    Lovely.

  5. 5.

    Reboot

    May 12, 2022 at 8:28 am

    Love the echinacea pic–a plant’s gonna do what a plant’s gonna do.

  6. 6.

    Torrey

    May 12, 2022 at 8:33 am

    Great pictures! Mainers have (and need) some seriously steep roofs! What’s the first picture? It looks like it might be an inn or restaurant of some sort.

  7. 7.

    JanieM

    May 12, 2022 at 8:52 am

    @Torrey: That building isn’t an inn or anything, just a 3-unit dwelling.

    And yes about the roofs. You’ve got to let that snow slide off or get in trouble. Sometimes you get in trouble anyhow….. It’s not uncommon in an especially snowy winter to see people up on the roof, shoveling.

  8. 8.

    Fraud Guy

    May 12, 2022 at 8:55 am

    I swear that house looks like the one from What About Bob?

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    JR in WV

    May 12, 2022 at 3:57 pm

    We spent a couple of weeks in Maine years ago, first week at Poland Mining Camp, where a small group of old gemstone miners take visiting rockhounds and PhD students around to old gemstone mines in the woods of Maine, where Tourmaline, Topaz, Aquamarine and more exotic crystalline minerals have been mined for over a century now. We were allowed to visit various quarries, each with their own rules.

    Some places we were only allowed to dig in the dumps for lost or overlooked crystals, other places we could break hard bedrock to search for a pocket full of crystals. Then we had to leave the mining camp as a bunch from the Smithsonian was coming in for a 2 week symposium on the types of mineral deposits common in Maine (ETA: pegmatites), so we drove up the coast clear into Canada where we visited the Roosevelt summer home.

    Maine is a bigger state then it looks on a map!

    Your excellent photos bring back some great memories of that trip!

  10. 10.

    JanieM

    May 12, 2022 at 4:08 pm

    @JR in WV: Thanks! — And yes, Maine is bigger than you might expect for a New England state. :-)

    I’ve been to the Roosevelt home twice and found it very moving.

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