We head down the highway to reach Lincoln, the home of Texans Kathy & Ralph who we met in Pleasant Bay, Cape Breton.
We enjoyed their summer home by the peaceful lake.
Green and wax beans from their garden for supper.
We went to the State Fair to see the lumberjack show, but it began to rain sheets and the show was cancelled.
Hmm, shall we have deep fried pickles or deep fried Oreos. A challenging decision.
I attended a Unitarian Church service and was given a tour in a wonderful downtown Universalist building from 1911.
Curch stained glass window depicting women in history.
Mount Hope Cemetery is a very large park with some graves and monuments- the Forest Lawn of Bangor, where I enjoyed a very nice bike ride before another downpour.
In the nineteenth century residential section where lumber barons once reigned is Stephen King's house, with spiderwebs and bats in his artistic fence.
Author Stephen King's house through the trees.
Someone drove into his gate in 2010 and it had to be reworked to the tune of a hundred thousand dollars so the Internet reports.
I had a burger in Nick's diner and had to pay $1.50 extra for lettuce & tomato. Someone has to pay for that Thunderbird stuck in the wall.
Back on the road north of Bangor I stopped at this nice store with rocking chairs on the porch.
Moosewood Lake is the largest in Maine; water planes are popular tourist attraction here in Greenville, population 1600.
I love the picture of your bike at Mt. Hope Cemetery. You were telling me about the Texans - what a lovely spot and evening that must have been. Does Stephen King sill live there?
ReplyDelete$1.50 for a piece of lettuce and tomato? Did they charge a la carte for the hamburger patty and the bun? $.50 for mustard, $.25 for ketchup? Good thing you weren't eating this hamburger in Canada. You would've had to pay $.50 for them to leave the mayo off!
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