We Could Be There Right Now
As if I needed to bring on any more depressing thoughts, I really started thinking today about how this was our week in Maine. We gave it up thinking that there was no way we could go having to save all our vacation time for when Blink arrives – and now we realize how much of a mistake that really was.
I’m not sure how many of you can truly identify with Maine. You have to get Maine. You can just go up and see places and appreciate the New England charm and that’s all well and good, but when you really get Maine, you get Maine. I’ve never identified with any other place in the same way. There’s something about it – it gets in your blood. And like any other addictive drug, when it gets in your blood and you don’t go back for a while, you start to hit withdrawal.
Certain smells, certain songs, certain foods will bring my spirit to Maine. Well, not just to Maine, but specific places – like the rocks outside EHH’s Grandmother’s cottage that we stay in or the port, with the cool (sometimes downright cold) ocean breeze blowing onto the shore. I can picture everything about the cottage. How the living room is lit in the afternoon sun, what the slider sounds like when it opens, the screen door slamming, the gulls squawking. I can feel the sun on my legs while sitting on the deck in the morning sun. I can feel my feet shift in my hiking boots as we navigate our way over the rocks on our way down to Pebble Beach. I can smell the lobster feast(s) we prepare every year. It’s so very vivid.
I know that when we go back it’ll be even more special. We’ll have our little girl with us. She’ll get to grow up with Maine. It’ll be a part of her from the start of her life. She’ll get to make her own memories and explore and interpret our favorite places all on her own. She’ll remember different things from year to year and one day will tell me what Maine means to her.
And I can’t wait to hear it.
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Maine photo sets on Flickr:
And I recently just uploaded photos from our very first trip up there – August, 2005. We weren’t even engaged, yet!
I have been to Maine only a couple of times and my brother lives there now, but “that place” for me, growing up, was Cooperstown, NY.
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May 19th, 2008 | #
I have been to Maine only once and it was beautiful. THe hubby and I have a special place as well that we hold dear and every now and then a song or a smell reminds us of that. Just got back from checking out your Flickr Foto set from 2005 and I love the photo of you on the pebble beach and the one of EHH with the lobster on his head
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May 20th, 2008 | #
I know it won’t be the same but maybe you can re-create a little Maine magic at home. Lobster for dinner this weekend?
May 20th, 2008 | #
I feel the same way about the Adirondacks. I feel peace up there.
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May 20th, 2008 | #
I’ve never lived in Maine, but it has always called me. My wife vacationed every year in New Harbor as a child, and I visited several times when I was younger, but together, we’ve vacationed up and down the coast, probably 10 times in all. I like how you put it, because it is hard to describe, but we both GET it.
Proposed to her late at night in the moonshadow of Nubble Light, too.
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May 20th, 2008 | #
I’ve never lived in Maine, but it has always called me. My wife vacationed every year in New Harbor as a child, and I visited several times when I was younger, but together, we’ve vacationed up and down the coast, probably 10 times in all. I like how you put it, because it is hard to describe, but we both GET it.
Proposed to her late at night in the moonshadow of Nubble Light, too.
May 20th, 2008 | #
Oops…sorry about the double post. Darn annoying first-time posters…
May 20th, 2008 | #
*sigh* I get it. I grew up in Maine. I just wish there were enough good jobs that we could have stayed forever. Sunrise on Cadillac Mountain. Unbelievable.
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May 20th, 2008 | #
We bought 30 acres of land up there a few years ago, in the western part of the state. We don’t get up there enough but ti’s like a physical pull when I’ve been away too long…I totally ‘get it’ too.
And can I say just how much I love that octagon house?
May 21st, 2008 | #
Ahhhhhh! It sounds so beautiful! What a lucky child to have so much magic ahead of her!
Lovely post…absolutely lovely.
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May 21st, 2008 | #
That’s a beautiful post! *tears* I feel the same way about Hawaii
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May 22nd, 2008 | #