Morning Page October 5

I saw this most excellent skeleton placed just so in someone’s garden while traveling through Arcadia. A celebration of life, I think (which of course includes death). I had a little extra time this morning to play with value contrasts so that was fun.

I’m leaving Maine tomorrow. It’s been 10 days of touring the midcoast region, and yet a very small portion of this big wooded and coastal New England state.

I have never been here before. And yes, I only have surface impressions over such a short time, but the earth here is truly magnificent - all the islands and peninsulas and bays in the coast…the thick northeastern forests. Amazing. And I do feel like I understand more how both history and geography must have shaped the people who live here. Not to mention, by all accounts the cold, cold, long winters.

This California girl can’t begin to comprehend what that even means.

Anyway, good trip. But I’m a homebody at heart. Time to go home.