a brief Maine adventure

On Friday I drove straight up to Maine with my daughters (600 miles and 700 potty breaks)

On Saturday we drove out to the farm where daughter number one will be completing an apprenticeship in organic farming... it is really all by itself in the middle of rolling hills... at a little town of 200 people you drive up a tiny paved road and then turn off of that .. three and a half miles of dirt / gravel road up and down very steep hills past acres of trees and tiny homesteads... at the very top is the farmhouse, built in 1840... electricity comes from solar panels, water comes from the well and there is a very comfy outhouse out back....

They have pigs and cows and dogs and we came across a snake who was eating a toad... the toad was not happy about this and was kicking and squirming but the snake was very insistent that it was time for dinner and kept his mouth clamped down hard on the hapless toad's head...

In the soft light of early evening a young bull moose ambled across the road! He had been padding around in a shallow pond and just felt like moseying on, he was moving slowly in a very princely fashion... stopped to gaze at us and pose for pictures (not on my camera, unfortunately as the battery was run down).... even our Maine friend who has been back in the state for 10 years now has only seen three and we got to see one on our first day!

And on Sunday daughter two and I drove back... time to pack for Canada ... today I'll buy my "loonies"... Canadian money.