Oh oh oh! I do love Vinalhaven! I went there once and stayed with a friend for several days at a house on the water’s edge. The geology there is phantasmagoric. I still have a couple of rocks made of Vinalhaven Rhyolite (yes, it has its own name). They are purple with little green phenocrysts. You can see the green if you break a chunk of it open.
It is a beautiful natural setting. My step-daughter and her family live there.
During our recent trip we went on a hike (in the rain) with the land conservancy to see mosses and lichens. (There is not a lot to do on the island.) It turned out to be a really magical experience. All the shades of green and gray were glowing in the moisture. The forest was deep and still and when we made it to the top of Starboard Rock the ocean looked all eerie and mysterious in the fog.
The fog. Yes. Waking in the morning with fog all around. There WAS something very magical about that fog. To me, Vinalhaven is the quintessential Maine/Northeast Island experience. I’ll never forget it. The vivid images are still stuck in my mind twenty years later.
Anyone who lives there is fortunate, indeed, in my book. I do so wish to return someday.
I just remembered that I still have my ferry ticket stub that I saved as a memento, tucked away in a box in the attic….
Screwed up the HTML somehow. Back to the drawing board.
Both the the diary template and the photo template. 🙂
Wildflowers in Vinalhaven, Maine.
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Oh oh oh! I do love Vinalhaven! I went there once and stayed with a friend for several days at a house on the water’s edge. The geology there is phantasmagoric. I still have a couple of rocks made of Vinalhaven Rhyolite (yes, it has its own name). They are purple with little green phenocrysts. You can see the green if you break a chunk of it open.
It is a beautiful natural setting. My step-daughter and her family live there.
During our recent trip we went on a hike (in the rain) with the land conservancy to see mosses and lichens. (There is not a lot to do on the island.) It turned out to be a really magical experience. All the shades of green and gray were glowing in the moisture. The forest was deep and still and when we made it to the top of Starboard Rock the ocean looked all eerie and mysterious in the fog.
The fog. Yes. Waking in the morning with fog all around. There WAS something very magical about that fog. To me, Vinalhaven is the quintessential Maine/Northeast Island experience. I’ll never forget it. The vivid images are still stuck in my mind twenty years later.
Anyone who lives there is fortunate, indeed, in my book. I do so wish to return someday.
I just remembered that I still have my ferry ticket stub that I saved as a memento, tucked away in a box in the attic….
Thanks for reminding me of such a great place.
Thanks fotofair teachers!
are cracking me up! ROFLMAO!…please keep trying, it’ll all work out……bwahahahahahahahahahahah!….:{)