Visiting Barb and Charlie

Yesterday we started the day with a walk across US Route 1 to the other side of the park and the coast. Some rough stone steps led down to this shore. It’s beautiful, but not a place for a stroll. We did walk along the top of the bank on the nice path there.

Then we drove into Belfast Maine where we met our friend Barb who sells cut flowers, perennial plants and sometimes her pottery every Friday from April through October at the farmer’s market.

It was nice to sit and visit for a while. Bud took these pictures for me; Charlie wasn’t there yet.

This morning I walked Matey about two miles down from the top of Mount Battie, where Bud had dropped us off. There’s an overlook there, but it was so foggy I didn’t even bother to go out and look. It was a nice walk and I was glad Matey got a good workout as we then left him behind.

We drove into Thorndike to have lunch with Barb and Charlie at their place. Charlie is very allergic to dogs, so Matey couldn’t come. This is their house and some of Barb’s flower gardens. The cutting garden is across the road from the house, these flowers are just for them to enjoy.

They also have some fruit trees, blueberries and raspberries. That’s Charlie and Bud walking up from Charlie’s vegetable garden. Barb and I are on the deck they just had put on the log building Charlie built that has a sauna and a workshop. Barb also has her pottery workshop attached to the back of the house and two kilns, one in the the workshop and one in it’s own shed.

I had to take a picture of this beautiful lunch setting, complete with some of Barb’s stoneware and a big bouquet of Fireflower Garden flowers. We ate and talked and talked some more. Finally we thought we had better get back to Matey.

I made Barb and Charlie pose for this picture amid more of the flowers. It was pretty sunny then and quite warm. I was a little anxious to check on Matey because my temperature monitor wasn’t working. We left the air conditioner on in the trailer, but the power could go out.

I needn’t have worried. The coast was still completely overcast and the temperature there was only sixty nine degrees. I put a light sweatshirt on to sit out!

We’re moving on tomorrow; just sixty miles to a campground near Acadia National Park. We may be able to see Barb and Charlie again before we leave Maine. I would like that.