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Good Day In Maine, Caught Four Lighthouses.

Lighthouses In Maine, You Have Many Waiting For You.

When your kids grow up and flutter out of the nest, more time to fit in other neat stuff in Maine happens.

After dropping youngest off at the Portland Jetport yesterday, the ride back to Aroostook County meant a diversion. Dial in the GPS for some Maine lighthouses. Have a quest to collect photos, experience settings of the over sixty Maine lighthouses.

Some are small, pint size Maine lighthouses. Others are pretty colorful, painted ladies lighthouses. A few Maine lighthouses more photogenic or better known and circulated around the photo circles. Others a close second in wolf whistle generating or recognizable like Nubble Lighthouse in York Maine.

Bass Harbor Maine’s lighthouse features, boasts a red lens. But yesterday’s four additions to my collection covered finding, shooting images of Pemaquid and Marshall Point, Owlshead and Rockland Breakwater Maine Lighthouses. Pictured above, these are relatively easy ones to access quickly.

But Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse is missing the lawn, the space of an island around it.

With the granite walkway winter ice covered and requiring care in where you step. Coupled with Maine sea breezes whipping, pushing you along. Picking up intensity getting closer and closer to the end of the rocky pier. Hoping you don’t slide into the churning, ice ice baby cold sea water. You don’t see as many tourists in the winter visits. But the ones you do bump into are friendly.

On the way back from the Rockland Breakwater Maine Lighthouse a hand holding older couple approach me. On their way out to the lighthouse. While I was traveling back to the mainland near the Samoset Resort where the jeep was parked, waiting. The lady asked with a smile if they were serving hot chocolate. Although unmanned, I joked the canteen was indeed open. The Jamaican band playing hot hot hot. And the gift shop peddling a huge jewelry selection of Maine tourmaline gemstones at two hundred percent off. She knew the difference and I sensed the couple lived local. Did this visit often year round. Black flies not a concern on today’s habitual visit to the place they enjoyed, shared together because of the take away.

Hitting deeply, the Maine lighthouse experience is unique, unforgettable.

Becomes a healthy addiction. No matter what season you need a healthy fix. To make the time to explore. Find the one that is your favorite. That you revisit, reconnect with any of the four seasons. Maine lighthouses are all different styles, rugged period construction with varied histories. Communications inside a person amplify near the towering lights, walkways, dwellings that are heritage rich, loaded. What’s real, important, special in life gets prioritized. Becomes crystal, illuminated. In winter especially because it is just you and the Maine lighthouse, it’s setting, grounds. No tourists to interfere with your visit. The only chit chat is inside your head, heard in your heart.

You study her from all angles.

Consider what life as the Maine lighthouse keeper must of been like. On sunny summer blistering days, blustery winter snow blizzards. You throw out, cast seaward long thought provoking panoramic gazes. Out over the rock bound, uneven, craggy Maine coastline to the sea lanes she serves. Protects with a powerful light system and a very verbal nautical sea horn.

The mainland models are not as hard to access and collect. The Maine island lighthouses that require a boat ride to get up close and personal more of a challenge. I am determined to seek out, collect all the Maine lighthouses for the personal experience, the take away. For a snap shot to keep inside, to create an 8×10 for the wall to enjoy year round. Here is a map of Maine lighthouses locations, if you have the bug to collect them on vacations too! Maine, her memories never fade. Collect yours, don’t stay away so long.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME REALTOR
207.532.6573
info@mooersrealty.com

January 4, 2013
The New Year You Plan To Be Outdoors, In Maine More.

Maine Is Music All Around You. The Natural Kind, The Songs The Local Volunteer Musicians Create To Entertain The Whole Family Outdoors.

Spending more time outdoors in Maine, enjoying the four seasons is one healthy New Year’ resolution.

And because of more space, fewer people, the cost is small or none to fill those lungs with fresh air, your eyes with incredible scenery. Come listen to the water lapping on a one of our many Maine lakes, ponds.

Visit Gulf Hagas …. which sounds like Las Vegas but is Maine’s version of a smaller “Grand Canyon”. Or kayaking, Maine river rafting or trek to the Allagash Wilderness Waterway if you are up for the adventure in 2013. Or whenever you can fit it in some R and R in Maine. Just get here.

Make Maine your must do, healthy habit to be in Vacationland through out the year.

Maybe a lighthouse in Maine, one of over 60 is the collection of images you want to add to the vacation photo album of memories. There is something special, that helps you unplug, let go and take away something special that stays inside around a Maine lighthouse, the rock bound coastline, sea air setting. Maine has four seasons and every special spot you need to return to looks, feels, is a little different depending on the time of year you vacation.

Or maybe walking around the Old Port in Maine’s largest city Portland, to round out your knowledge of the Pine Tree State. If you claim to know Maine like the back of your hand.

Remember,Maine is a rural farming state and the harvest of potatoes, blueberries, apples, anything agricultural is a special time to visit too! Farmers markets in Maine are a perfect chance to meet the down to Earth hardworking people of our neat state.

Maybe getting out on a newly groomed Maine snow sled trails to ride, explore where a car does not go is what you had in mind. For something different, to see where the wildlife of Maine live.

To enjoy the Maine outdoor setting way fewer people get to experience.

Sliding for kids or adults, down hill skiing happens around Maine in the winter months too.

Thank you for following the Me In Maine Blog Posts. I try to make the posts varied, special and to reflect the one of a kind setting only Maine can provide you. Happy New Year and hope our paths cross some way, some how in 2013.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
207.532.6573
info@mooersrealty.com

January 2, 2013
Sit A Spell On An Open Porch, In Front Of A Maine Home Fireplace.

Handling Joys, Struggling Defeats, Ups And Downs In Life Needs Back And Forth Communications. No Man Is An Island.

Ever been in a public place where lots of people but not much chatter?

Everyone face down but not praying. Eyes opened but lowered. Nose glowing as the bright spot in the eerie screen reflection of a smart phone. Maybe nursing a lap top, iPad to engage the back and forth. To ping pong a short string of communication created with competing thumbs. With someone other than who is across the table or in the booth with them.

Distractions, hobbies, diversions.

What we fill our days with, attach importance to has changed. Less chores around the Maine farm. And more time to socialize on line. Untethered. With the device carried everywhere we go. To stay connected. But in the simplest terms of communication. Maybe an image attached, link to a video to round out the information sharing. But pretty quickly created. Then hitting send to whisk off into thin air as the new form of carrier pigeon.

And with busy busy lives but less dependent on food, shelter, safety worries, maybe texting, not being face to face matters more and more.

Just like the volume letter writing, of phone calls has dropped off for many. Texting is simple, easy, lazy. Not wanting the same room conversation that could be uncomfortable, squirm causing, awkward depending on the topic being addressed. Others kept at arms length with a hand held texting device.

These days, instead of a few close friends that were usually family, neighbors who pitched in, helped out, the audience to rub shoulders with has exploded. A more traveled, wider expanse of “others” to be aware of as the globe gets smaller. People move around more. No longer live and die close to where they grew up. Venturing out. Way out. And reaching back to share what they have learned is a tad egocentric. If viewed as come on, top this people.

Even when we are with someone if a stream of text messages drift in and out, is there an urgency to respond to the vibration?

Clutch your hip. Not wanting to be rude or make them wait? But you are with someone. Oh yeah. Multi tasking happens with conversations, not just the to do list items check off. I get it. But what if it’s one of the kids hurt? Better check.

Hunt and peck tapped back strings of abbreviations, slang, short hand in today’s language to keep the simple communication, loose connection going. To reach out and touch someone in the most basic limited written text form. Until we can do the real thing. But been reminded “remember people don’t talk so much any more if they are cool and they only text”. Okay.

New Year’s resolution to text less.

Have more face to face conversations. So you can see facial expressions. Hear the tone, or sense the sarcasm or humorous reaction with body movements. To get the effect of pauses. See and hear the mental wheels of the other end of the conversation turning, meshing, grinding. That texting with chain saw efficiency cuts through. Totally eliminates.

Texts taken out of context. No body language, emotion, color to add to the information transfer when you and I are not on the same porch swing together. Or rocking, sipping tea and sampling a fresh home made pumpkin date filled cookie. In a pair of rockers. Chairs in a farm house kitchen near a wood cook stove I miss most from growing up. Now that parents are both gone.

The number of text messages sent monthly in the U.S. exploded from 14 billion in 2000 to 188 billion in 2010. That’s according to a Pew Institute survey. Don’t texts erode the need to spend time together, to start up the talking, listening two step? With undivided attention to the other? Or has that become a luxury? Just no time.

Or is juggling more than one conversation greater fun, providing deeper satisfaction?

So if one lags, gets boring, other more humorous, stimulating ones can take over. Pick it up. Observations from another conversation thread can keep the entertainment going? Do we have need to be entertained or have a burning need to really always know what is going on elsewhere? At this very second. Even when with someone three feet or closer away? Is the person we would rather be with on the other end of the text but the one we are visiting, spending time with fills the void in between those visits?
And how old should you be to have an account, use Facebook?

Maybe communications in a selfish society has become more let me vent. Just listen. The paid fifty five minute type of frustration down loads at a therapists may have helped weed and feed our self centerness. Spread into the tap tap text messages we create like new fresh Maine sticking snow balls. And to let fly.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
207.532.6573
info@mooersrealty.com

December 27, 2012
Maine, Fly Over It Outside A Plane.

If you don’t live in Maine, then spending more time here is on your bucket list.

Sneaking in often for more of all she offers.
Maine. Being “High Up” Is On The Bucket List.

But above and beyond Maine, what else is on your New Year’s resolution list?

Learning to fly is one of mine. And no, not just from a cockpit but to “feel like a bird”. Not with a plane super structure and plastic around you but having the freedom beyond free falling. Arching your back and climbing. Lowering your shoulders and diving.

Far fetch and crazy? Not really. Your body is the fuselage with a little jet fuel and some back packs and a flying wing strapped on. Kept simple so you can adapt to a new “power” of movement besides walking, running, biking, hiking, skiing or other methods.

Watch What Eight Minutes Of Fuel Can Do Flying Video.

Yves Rossy is Jetman.

Whether over the Grand Canyon or Swiss Alps, the sensation to fly must be a detachment from Earth. Letting go and soaring. Gliding, high speed air travel when you are in first class all by yourself. Without the crystal stem glassware or heated towels.

No worries about leg room.

You have total. No cramps, charlie horses with knees in your chest for hours for you. No aisle or window seat options needed thank you very much. No lines with TSA agents. Your wing is your carry on. The in-flight movie is all around you. 360 degrees surround sight and sound and you are in it. You catch yourself laughing. Feel joy, peace, achieve understanding. Above the petty day to day drama of reality with all those people left behind.

Goggled eyes watering from the emotion, not velocity and due to the sheer deep down inside touched rush. An unknown sensation that you think must be one of a kind, the ultimate. But have no actually frame of reference or past carnival, Disney ride experience with this level of freedom. Or awareness. Yeah. Like an out of body, stairway to heaven like high altitude inner joy ride.

Not worked up anymore about the oil needs changing in the Jeep.

Or how many more payments on the house loan still to be made. Or anything other than total sensory explosion, over dose. Pegging, making the meter needle move. Above the roar of the day to day chasing the dollar. Pounding the pavement. You feel closer to God. You are.

If flying over Maine, around Baxter Park, Sugarloaf Mountain, the Allagash Wilderness Waterway or along the rock bound craggy coastline dotted with lighthouses and quaint harbor sea villages.
That’s what I want for Christmas. To look forward to in 2013.

What is on your bucket list of have to do’s before your days on Earth are done? For fun, to unlock, unplug in Maine. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year Me In Maine Blog readers, followers. Thanks for stopping in. Scanning the hunt and peck of recycled electrons that means no trees were harmed in this media presentation.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
207.532.6573
Email info@mooersrealty.com

December 23, 2012
Maine Has Four Seasons, Don’t Waste Any Of Them.

Find Yourself In Maine. Small Towns Rich In Common Sense. Places Built To Last.

The answer to the right time to come to Maine?

As often as you can. Whenever you make time, need to for recharging, unplugging. Or just for answers to inner questions that just don’t get addressed when you are helter skelter, pedal to the metal out straight where you live now.

In nearly 33 years of listing, selling Maine real estate, over and over the underlying theme from out of state buyers of properties is this. Something is missing from their life where they live now. The buyer is looking for more than sticks and bricks. A whole new area, life setting needed. Because it is either too congested around them. They may have to travel too far to work to afford the lower cost area their home is in.

But the home owner is never home to see the kids growing up.

Latch key kids. Getting fat, lazy, and never happy. Whiners happen, are made. Or the cost to live in a sardine packed tightly urban area has just taken its toll in other stressful ways. Always bone weary, dog tired and all the city dwellers admitting they wondered what was wrong for a while. Were blind and thought everyone lived this way in the game of life. That it took some time to come to the same conclusion I hear over and over. Maine is different, special, unique and one of the last places out there to run away to.

The buyer of Maine property is seeing his or her life flying by. It is way past the time when they should have changed course and moved. Head to a place where man has not spoiled it by over commercialization. Where development is not a common place condition. Where permits, regulations, permission for this or that is not ham stringing a person.

Maine is simple. The friendly people are not but the setting is natural, easy, real. Not spun, not chrome and glass. Not pretentious or snobby. But instead evergreen fragrant with the sound of crystal clean splashing water. With views of landscape, waterfront and wildlife that were not meant to be wasted.

The location, the spot on the planet you are at governs everything that happens around, to you and your family.

Lower cost living means not so much worry about the mortgage hanging around your neck. Debt is not how we run our households in Maine. Stepping up the payments to not have that mortgage trumps the need for something new and shiny. The effort, expense to impress the neighbors or cause envy among your peers is replaced with pitching in to local small town events. Small Maine home town values. What you are after? Maine is the way it used to be everywhere else but sadly is not anymore.

We are involved in the local fabric of our towns in Maine.

Instead of standing around like spectators or paying admission to attend an event, we work them. Are part of the experience which is richer, more complete because we are in the planning, the behind the scenes. And active in our communities. Feeling connected to the folks that live here. Pride swelling for the local home town in Maine and all the folks in it. We share their successes, pray about their set backs. We need and lean on each other.

Where do you live now?

Do you feel something is missing? Anxious, jittery, restless and don’t know why? The way you spend your time now. All store bought past times or over indulgence of something you know is not healthy for you to cope? To handle it all? The “crutches” you use, throw them away and consider relocating, moving to Maine. Forget any stories from folks that have never been here about polar bears, igloos, dog sleds for travel. That’s Artic Circle. Not Maine.

Get here part or full time. Watch how your life begins anew. Start living. Because if you are standing still, stressed out and all around not so healthy, in the pink, there is another way. The place with the space. Maine. Get here quick as you can. To find out what has been missing.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
207.532.6573
info@mooersrealty.com

December 20, 2012
Maine, Don’t Think You Need To Have A Week To Sample ME.

Maine Lighthouses, Collect All 60 Or So. Make Time To Get To Maine, Don’t Stay Away So Long.

For folks lucky enough to live in Maine, we don’t have to stockpile several days off to enjoy all she has to offer.

Any season, when you live in Maine or find yourself motoring through the big state, you can swerve off I-95 on the way through. To sample some of her essence. To spend small amounts of time that you can schedule into your trip. To as Jimi Hendrix would croon “stand next to her fire”.

Yesterday dropped my oldest son Alex off at Logan International Airport to climb aboard a silver bird flying to Denver Colorado. After working him pretty hard on carpentry projects around three properties with lots of buildings, it is time for return to winter job at A Basin Colorado Ski area.

But on the way back from Logan to Houlton Maine no reason why a little diversion can not be GPS factored, dialed in.

To sample another Maine lighthouse, this time able to check off the list Nubble Lighthouse in Cape Neddick, York Maine. Have been collecting visits, photos of Maine lighthouses.

When you are handy to Maine, like sampling one long, never ending outdoor sensory life buffet.

Snacking on her visual, audio delights that hit all five senses. Summer when the beaches of Maine are low vacancy space wise is fun, special. But so is a visit to the same spots during a different season. The eye candy, special moments alone without sharing them with the tourist crowd, can be pretty powerful, special too.

After dropping youngest son Elliot off at Logan Airport following last year’s Christmas / New Years college break, was lucky to make the same type course deviation. To take in, shoot a video for Portland Head Lighthouse that is actually in Cape Elizabeth. The youngest flies in for his senior year college break soon. And on his return, will hit and share another lighthouse in Maine adventure with you the loyal, trustworthy Me In Maine Blog post reader. Promise.

Maine, so much more than moose, woods, crystal clean lakes and rivers. Like air and water, vitamins and prayers, make sure to fit in time to spend with her. To learn from your special place in her space, visit Maine soon. Don’t stay away so long.

Maine, Cross The Green Bridge, Hit A Maine Lighthouse Along The Way North Video

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
207.532.6573
info@mooersrealty.com

December 15, 2012