Not sure if this is the place to post this but gonna put here!

I went for a hike today all by myself... love those trips some times! at a place called Parks Pond Bluff. My DBF and I go here a lot rock climbing but haven't been all winter. Just thought I would share the beautiful view from the top.

The hike is usually a 10 minute hike up a steep trail but today took me 20 minutes but I did it with only a few stops for air!! LOL

I hope you enjoy my pics....

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This is from the road looking back to were I was on top of the rock bluff.... Hopefully you can see it.

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Those pics are so awesome! Look like they came out of a magazine. Are you sure you took them??? ha Makes us remember how beautiful this country really is... thanks for sharing Char!!!

It is only about 20 miles from our home.... Maine has beautiful places right in our back yard!

I thought you were going to say you thought you might of been there....

wow those are just beautiful.... Thank you for sharing them...
vicky

Oh, Char, Maine is such beautiful country, no doubt. The pics are great! I could spend days hiking up there (if I could hike). I just came out of the Smokies and it's always a reminder of how diverse and sublime this continent really is.

I have excellent memories of Maine, especially northern areas. It has been a very long time and I could never do now what I could back then, but I wouldn't mind seeing some of those streams and woods again.

Thanks for reminding me.

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".

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!

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!