Friday, with photos

[rolanni]

I took the day off yesterday so that Steve and I could go to the zoo, also known as York's Wild Kingdom. Faithful auditors of this journal will recall that we had attempted the zoo earlier in the summer, but turned away at the gate, upon discovering that we were not that day plump enough in the pocket to buy our way in. This time, we had in hand a gift certificate from A. Fan and we intended to make good use of it.

York Beach is a little over a two hour drive from the Cat Farm and Confusion Factory, and we arrived at the zoo about 11:30 to discover that the road into the heart of the zoo off of Route 1 was blocked off and they were parking overflow on the front field.  This meant, among other things, that the zoo was already Unreasonably Full of People, many of them very small children.  Steve and I chose the course of honor and ceded our place in line to a car full of mom and four very small children.  A. Fan's generous gift does not, so the zoo assured me, expire, so it will be put into play early next season. 

In the meantime, Steve and I drove down into York Beach, parked at Long Sands and got out to stretch our legs, and

 

Tide's out

The view down-beach

 

 

 

 

Nubble Light

The view up-beach

Trailer park on the moon

The Rocky Maine Coast

Author on vacation

edited to add:  No, I don't know what's gone wrong with the cuts.  Apologies.

Comments

[liadan-m.livejournal.com]

Ooh, pretty.

Also, your lj-cut isn't working.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know, and I have no idea what to do about it, except start over, which...not gonna happen.

[baggette.livejournal.com]

don't worry about it.
You are worth the space.

[barsukthom.livejournal.com]

A note from Freud's Dresser:
I read one of those items the first time as "Nubile Light".

Wakka, wakka!

[amm-me.livejournal.com]

My less-than-satisfactory vision at first rendered Nubble Light as Nubile Light. I feel there is a story in there somewhere ... if young women's spirits in trees are dryads, what might be the spirit in a slender, soaring lighthouse, forever signaling over the uncaring sea?

[amm-me.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, wrote my comment before I read barsukthom's. Great minds? Low minds?

Fences (Nubble Light)

[muehe.livejournal.com]

To me, ornamental fences are a way to set a boundary. Why does someone need to establish a boundary on a small island?

Re: Fences (Nubble Light)

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

...because it's a peninsula?

As you can see from the picture directly above the close-up of the light.