Showing posts with label tourism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tourism. Show all posts

Friday, November 26, 2010

Maine

Maine is Beautiful, one of the 3 states in the US that I would voluntarily live in. I like the quaintness, the New England appeal, the seafood, the houses, the predominant architecture and its privacy.

This is Maine by way of US1. The coastal route is the way to go because it how one can see the communities. 


 This photo was taken in York, Maine, just further north of Kittery; it was charming and serene but pretty nippy.


 The Nubble Lighthouse, an iconic structure in Maine. Seeing it with the Atlantic Sea as the backdrop was well opportune.


 A melancholy scene.


 Capturing this was just as memorable as the scene itself, I decided on the vision of this angle and had to climb sharp rocks high and higher still to get to this point. I loved it and I love this picture. This was in Cape Elizabeth.

Birches

The Lighthouse at Cape Elizabeth, ME. 


Entering Kennebunkport:

The Democrat Headquarters in KB.


For good measure, I present, Bush '41's summer home, also in Kennebunkport.


Chapel near Cape Porpoise


The town of Kennebunk - on the left




signposts for businesses


The Cake House


bed and breakfast


Meanwhile in Portland:



Henry Wadsworth Longfellow... well, a rendering of him.


the Longfellow Commons

Portland enterprises...





I'm famished, let's have some Lobster... 
A scene from DiMillo's Floating Restaurant


If there is an ugly part of Maine, I must have missed it; everything I saw was romantic and I was charmed.

Friday, July 9, 2010

St. Augustine, FL.

The very first locale that stimulated my interest for the romanticism in the word "quaint" was St. Augustine, FL. This 400 and some year-old little town unleashed the shutterbug in me and by the time my time with it was over; I’ve covered all the nooks and crannies of the old cobblestone pavements, the antique doors, the crooked little houses and soaked in every courtyard I laid my eyes upon.






If one has not been to this place yet, these photographs I took are just a few of the hundreds I captured of the oldest town discovered and settled in this side of earth and I hope you enjoyed them.