Hey guess what I moved again!

Yup, I did it; I moved again. This time I'm living in South Portland. A good friend of mine, Charley, is in Afghanistan for the year, and I have been watching his apartment building while he's gone; so I'm moving into his apartment for the rest of the year. I'm very excited to live alone for a while! :) I did a little painting before I moved in, and friends, Linda and Amie came over one day to help. Only Linda had never painted before in her life and Amie had a few beers before attempting to paint trim so I'm not really sure how much help they were, but we had a good time.

Goofing off at Home Depot!

Linda, first time with a paint roller!
Yes, I was laughing so hard I fell over into the freshly painted wall!!

"OMG like is this how we paint?"

Ok that's all I have time for now... more to come soon hopefully :)

Basket Island

On Sunday we went down to Hill's Beach in Biddeford. This is where we used to go to collect shells, seaweed, and drift wood for the Shorescapes.

If you click on this picture to enlarge it you can see an island straight across the sand bar that has a stone cairn on it. That is Basket Island. It's about a mile across the bar at low tide.

Getting closer!

It looks like a lot of water between here and there but it is only two inches deep at low tide.

When we first came up on the island we saw this sculpture made of lobster traps and drift wood that had washed up on the rocks.

The island is covered with various types of flowers. We don't know what these are.

A white Rugosa Rose

Aha!

What we came looking for!

The stone cairn.

A navigation aide?

This island does pretty much mark the entrance to the Saco River.

Beach peas we think.

Red Rugosa Roses.

This is the far side of the island from the first picture. It's as far as we went that day before turning back to beat the incoming tide.

It was right about here that we saw a couple of pairs of nesting ducks, but no babies yet.

A view from the road as the tide marches in on it's mission to make The Land of the Stone Cairn an island once again.