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| All Photos by Muffy Aldrich |
Pemaquid Point Lighthouse regularly draws locals and visitors alike year-round. All you need is a quick scan of the license plates in the parking lot, but one mostly finds this out when talking to others who are wandering about, soaking up the air and the sun and the openness. It is a friendly place. (Perhaps more so than when one of our ancestors washed up in the Angel Gabriel shipwreck of 1635.)
And driving the peninsula, which I have been doing since I could first drive, is part of the joy. The roads are more open and wide (not at all like the dystopian driving one must endure going down and around Boothbay's ditch-laden peninsula) and it oscillates between gentle open fields and bits of old growth pine forests.
Is it just me, or does everyone just adore a man wearing a kilt?
ReplyDeletenot I, and she is not alone, I assure you
DeleteI certainly do not.
DeleteIndeed! It reminds me of all the brave Highlanders, fierce in battle. Very handsome look on a man.
DeleteReally now? A kilt on a New Englander is a bit much. Up here in the northwest corner there is a gent who frequently “rocks à kilt” (as the younger generation says) at benefits, openings and other quasi public social events. No one ever seems to remark about his dress. I think they’re embarrassed to say anything.
DeleteHalf the clothes on this site are imports from the UK... and New England and WASP culture are drenched in admiration for and emulation of the British. Why are kilts different?
DeleteBecause wearing a kilt to the New England shore is too ridiculously silly to be appreciated. In Scotland, a kilt is considered formal wear not for tours of a New England light house.
DeleteYou have obviously never been to Scotland. Kilts are not only formal wear. Kilts are also worn in the field: for hunting, shooting and country outings or at outdoor cultural or historic activities or locations ( like the lighthouse) or various festivals. And sometimes just down at the pub.
DeleteYes. But rarely in the pubs in Glasgow.
DeleteThe whole thing just seems contrived. Interesting nonetheless
DeleteSimply superb! Thank you, so very much! Cheers!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your "picture stories," as always they are marvelous and much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite place in the country.
ReplyDeleteLove these virtual get aways you so kindly provide.
ReplyDeleteI’ve always loved it there.
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful place in all weathers. I love it dearly.
ReplyDeleteHeaven. Thanks for the photos!
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