Days are shorter, nights are longer. We’re entering the nighttime of the year.
In our silhouetted landscape, moonrises are spectacular. (This is the Breaver, or Frost, or Snow Moon that occurs in November.)
The heavy moon is huge when it first emerges. Really huge.
As it rises, it becomes smaller in proportion to the horizon.
Just like us.
Just a few of the beautiful boats floating on Penobscot Bay.
Blustering wind greeted the sailers entered in the annual Race Around Islesboro Saturday morning.
And it didn’t take long the for race to begin from the Northport Yacht Club in Bayside.
The sails filled immediately and soon they were almost out of site.
The season’s winding down. Soon the moorings will be empty and sailors will only be dreaming about the next race.
Here’s the Northport Yacht Club’s website.
Spring’s just beginning, but Victorian Bayside is still charming, even without all the foliage and flowers.
Bayside is a secret Victorian village that’s hidden off of Route One, in Northport, just below Belfast, and above Camden.
Even true Mainers don’t know it’s there.
Bayside started as a Methodist/Episcopalian church camp in the mid 1800’s, and it’s charming Carpenter Gothic architecture is of true historic value.
It’s known for it’s active summer community but that’s gradually changing.
As people are discovering, Gingerbread dresses up the scene, no matter what time of year.
(To get to Bayside, turn onto the road at the very colorful Dos Amigos Mexican restaurant just below Belfast and Little River. Follow the road along the shoreline. You’ll go through the village and eventually come out at Route One near Saturday Cove. It’s about 4 miles along the water.)
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