Postcards · Maine

Postcards fromthe Maine Coast.

A lobster roll with a lighthouse view, a busy bee in Boothbay, birdhouses in Kennebunkport and the Marginal Way in Ogunquit, collected one postcard at a time.

A lobster roll and potato chips in a paper-lined tray on a red picnic table, with Portland Head Light standing beyond the lawn against the blue Atlantic.

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Lobster Roll with a View

Fort Williams Park, Cape Elizabeth

A Bite Into Maine lobster roll and a pile of chips at a picnic table, with Portland Head Light standing watch over the Atlantic. Does it get any more New England than that?

A bumblebee gathering pollen on a white cosmos flower edged in bright pink, surrounded by pale yellow zinnias and green garden foliage.

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A Busy Bee

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay

A bumblebee hard at work on a pink-edged cosmos, proof that the gardens were still buzzing with color well into October.

Six little wooden birdhouses in blue, yellow and white, topped with succulents and lavender, mounted on the pale blue clapboard wall of a shop.

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Birdhouses for Rent

Dock Square, Kennebunkport

A wall of tiny birdhouses crowned with succulents and lavender outside a little shop, the kind of small-town detail that kept stopping me in my tracks.

Waves breaking white against dark rocks below a grassy, rocky point, with a long sandy beach curving into the distance under a soft blue sky.

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Along the Marginal Way

Ogunquit, Maine

Waves crashing against the rocks along the Marginal Way, with Ogunquit Beach curving off into the distance. A perfect cliffside walk on a breezy autumn day.