You are welcome Cindy - and I can take you to places that you don't need to climb steep hill like this - we can drive or there are places that it is a short easy walk. You show up on my door when ever you can Cindy and I will make sure you see the woods and streams of Maine all over again - one way or the other! You are right, Maine is beautiful. Some day you will have to fill me in where in Northern Maine you were - that is where I grew up ~ only been down here on the coast for two years. Just maybe we have seen each other and didn't know it!! Noooo, forget that I would of never forgot someone like you! and that's a good thing!

I was just a kid, we tooled all over the place, including Arcadia NP (of course). One of the coolest things we did was in a place I have no idea of where we were. We called it "steppin' stones" when all six of us kids would go up a river on the exposed rocks.

Someplace up there we found a river that was loaded with them and my parents just let us spend the whole day steppin' stones way upstream, collecting natural artifacts and goofing around.

I wish I had known then how much that stuff would mean to me nowadays.

Ah, say, "la vee".

Now I live about 25 mins from Arcadia NP but the Northern Maine woods will always be my home.... Funny you described a lot of river/streams in northern Maine in the Summer I remember many a days when me and my older brothers would go upstream hopping rocks and collecting stuff - my pockets were always full. You put Maine on your list of places to go and my spare room is all yours girl!

I know what you mean Chemar, I lived in Florida for 3 years and missed the four season and hills too!

Thanks so much for sharing those, Char

You do live in such a lovely part of the country!

I grew up around mountains and rivers and forest and ocean all combined and so, although I find certain benefits and beauties to living here in flat Florida (which I affectionately refer to as "The Swamp" ) still I so miss having four seasons and hills and mountains!

Where's that, Chem?? Oregonish??




and where's breakfast!?!

I dunno but I am hungry!!

Jeepers, Char, do ya' think we ran the poor girl off? Maybe we ate her out of house and home?


*googling delivery groceries*

I wonder what the Neurotalk address is...

That I am not sure..... I can't imagine that we would run anyone off.... we are happy go lucky people!!