Acadia | Annmarie Kelly

Blueberries, Books and Binge-Watching

It’s a lazy morning…typical first day at Windward Cottages. Joseph and I are watching Sunday morning as we let go of work and slide into vacation mode. This vacation Joseph and I are binge-watching the first season of […]

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Portland Head Light

What a good first night of vacation! I had fun, got to visit with friends, started de-stressing and got good rest. This morning I had some cereal at the hotel (raisin bran with yogurt and froot loops – […]

Maine Diaries 2015

We left West Chester around 8:30 this morning. Joseph has a GPS in his car and we still get triptiks from AAA. But more and more we use WAZE when we travel – even if it’s just for […]

Heading Home

I’m going to miss looking out the living room window and seeing this view – the trees, the sunlight dancing on the water, sunset on the cover. Joseph and I are having a tough time saying goodbye to […]

Joseph’s Big “Test”

In our almost twenty years of coming to Acadia, we’ve hiked Cadillac twice and its almost-as-high companion, Dorr Mountain, once. It’s been a couple years since the last time we did Cadillac, but we decided to do it […]

Seen Me on YouTube?

I thought this morning’s wet, rocky and steep climb up Day Mountain was a challenge. It was nothing compared to what happened this afternoon. We were invited to join a couple we know (I’ll call them Cathy and […]

Day Mountain Hike

You know how I believe in victory stretches? Today I got two chances to get out of my comfort zone and stretch into some bigger experience! We’re already feeling sad that vacation is almost over, and we’re determined […]

The Land of Charlotte’s Web!

Saturday is laundry day. So Joseph and I traveled off the island and into the nearest town, Ellsworth. The laundromat got all new washers, which seemed like something good – until we found out there were new rules […]

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Where’s My Muffins??

This morning we went to one of my regular haunts, the Quietside Muffin Company in Southwest Harbor. I first found it from an article I read in the Ellsworth-American. It was about how a woman, Ginny, reinvented herself […]

A Perfect Day

As perfect days go, this can be recorded as one of them. Joseph and I meandered through the early morning, reading and talking. We received an invitation to view the privately owned Kenarden Gardens in Bar Harbor. So […]