T Stands for Trip to Maine

Welcome to my blog today, on my 52nd wedding anniversary!  We took what you could call an anniversary  trip last week, the reason I didn't take part in TSFT.  We visited our son in Maine. We flew to Portland Maine, then rented a car to drive up the coast, and then inland to see our son.  He then took us up in the mountains and to Moosehead Lake, the largest lake in Maine.  Although we tasted lobster rolls for the first time, and visited lighthouses, and stayed on the seashore,  our main mission was to visit with our son.  He has a lovely cabin with a gorgeous view of a pond, wildflowers, and wildlife.  It was the first time for us to see it.   He was an excellent host and tour guide!  He even took us up on the Appalachian Trail, which was on my bucket list. Our son has hiked both ways as a thru hiker and again in sections, for a total of three times.  I had walked it virtually on Walking4Fun which is on my sidebar.  But this made me want to actually set foot on it!

The good news is that I should have enough photos for awhile for T Stands for Tuesday over at Bleubeared & Elizabeths at Altered Book Lover.  Elizabeth is our wonderful hostess for Tuesdays where we post a drink related post.


So today, to begin with I am showing you our first meal on our first day.
I think you can see the corner of my husband's water glass.  But I had to take photo of our appetizer, because it was served with a orchid, and missed getting our drink in!  And then I forgot to take a photo of our scrumptious lobster rolls.  Wonderful buttery soft rolls with large chunks of lobster with a little mayo, and no other fillers.

This is the outside of where we ate in Ducktrap, Maine.

We ate in the little screened in addition in the back on the water.  It was so relaxing listening to the waves and being outside while we ate.

We didn't stop here, but had to get a photo of this giant lobster!  We had seen it on the way, and I wasn't ready with the camera, but made sure to get it on the way back!

This was our view from where we stayed in Belfast Maine on Penobscot Bay, after our visit with our son.

Oh, I did get a drink in a photo!  Every room in this inn has a view of the sea!  First thing I did was walk down to the water's edge!  Lovely view from this chair!

I watched the sailboats and even got some photos of people on kayaks.  Maybe I will find those for next time!

I will save some for another time.  I only took over a hundred photos, and was only gone 6 days! LOL

But I have done some crafting since I came back.  I also wanted to join Art Journal Journey this month for their theme A World of Fantasy. I had asked Elizabeth if I could submit a 12x12  scrapbook page entry, and she said I could.  I do want to get into journaling but right now am behind on my scrapbooking for the year.  So, most of today I worked on this layout.  The fantasy part is that the mural at the Nature center that I am standing in front of in the photo on the layout shows all of theses animals you might see.  My friend and I walked the trails, and we saw plenty of birds, thus the bird in red so it stands out, but  I don't believe we saw anything else.  So, that is the fantasy!  Maybe a stretch.  But it did inspire this layout.  Also, it inspired the title, you know the fairy tale musical, Into the Woods?  The journaling will be on a companion page of another walk with my friend.  Right now, I can't locate those photos!   I am going to link this up at  Art Journal Journey.

I used Heidi Swap  Art Screen ink through a TCW Aspen Trees stencil. Tried to show you the texture.

I used TH letter dies for the title and the animal dies were gifted me. I sponged them with Baha Breeze ink from SU! ( except for the bird)

I inked up a stamp from Lovely as a Tree from SU! with Mossy Meadow and then spritzed with water before stamping on the page.

Thanks for stopping by.  Waving to the T Gang!  I hope you all have a great Tea Day!