Tuesday I decided it was a perfect day to stay at the cottages and let Steve go birding on his own.
I enjoyed my day at the cottage. A little time on the screened in porch, a little time down on a bench in the lower lawn, a little time with binoculars in hand looking at butterflies and looking into the meadow beyond the lawn where wildflowers bloomed, including dark purple Japanese Irises. I even took a nap.
Steve drove into town to the HS where some birds had been reported, but didn't realize school was still in session here. So he moved on to Acadia National Park to several birding spots there, and arrived back at the cottage a little after 5:30.
Laundry and Cadillac Mountain
We did need to do a little laundry so headed back into Bar Harbor to the laundromat next to the grocery store. What's to say about that? Nothing, except, if you are a laundromat owner please don't put washing machines up on six inch high platforms unless you provide steps for short people to step up on and get their laundry out of the tub! I had to go get DH to retrieve it.
On the way back we (I) decided to take a short spin up to Cadillac Mountain. It's a beautiful drive, and interesting to watch the ecosystem changes as you gain elevation. There are all kinds of pullouts with spectacular views. I pull over for one and it says we should be looking at The Bubbles (two rounded mountains). Except we couldn't see them because clouds and rain were rolling in. It was a beautiful, brooding site.
Undaunted, we continued on. Now you can see the alpine flowers, lichens, and mosses. And clouds (or fog?) rolling over the hill tops like a tide rolling in. Another picture stop (I think Frenchman's Bay) and we continue a bit further, but finally there is no visibility at all on the road so we turned around and headed back to the cottages where I cooked dinner and we were in for the night.
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