Showing posts with label Stonington. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stonington. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Velvet Drive

We ended up taking another trip over to Stonington today, which was our second trip in the past 4 days. And it wasn't just to visit the library.




Or to go fishing. But while I was there I noticed this wonderful wooden fish over the doorway of someone's home. Kind of a unique idea I thought.


Here's the view from where we parked and sat in our truck while we ate the picnic lunch I packed for us. But we weren't over here just to eat a picnic lunch.



It was another beautiful day and I took a few more pictures of the scenery over here. But even that is not why we came back today.



It is Wednesday, but surprisingly this was not the reason we came back to Stonington today either. (Not that you would notice any 'odd fellows' in this photo or anything.)






I'm sure glad we didn't make the trip way over here to find a sign like this at our destination though.





I could always eat ice cream. Too bad this place wasn't even open yet for the season. But guess what? That's not it either. We did not come to Stonington to eat velvety smooth ice cream.




The real reason we made another trip over to Stonington again today was to pick up the transmission that we had brought over on Saturday to be rebuilt for our lobster boat, Fearless. So what does that have to do with the title of my post, you may ask. Velvet Drive is the kind of transmission we have, and don't you think it makes a much better post title than just Transmission?

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Idyllic Stonington

Yesterday we made a trip to Stonington, Maine which is located about 1-1/2 hours away from us.




We had perfect weather and the temperature was about 75 degrees F.




There's a lot of ledge in Stonington.


A lobster boat coming into the harbor.




The water was sparkling.




And what a treat for me to come upon a pair of artists who allowed me to take their pictures.





I even recognized the name of one of them as he is a rather well known artist. Oh the luck to meet them both in person!





On the left is artist T. M. Nicholas, and on the right is artist Stefan Alexis Pastuhov. It's so much fun living here in Maine. If you view the photo large, you may get a laugh at the name of the skiff
right there near them.