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Boothbay Harbor 2019 Page 3

Continuing :

 

We went to a new location this year:  Christina's World, AKA The Olson House.  This is from the famous Christina's World painting by Andrew Wyeth.  The site has changed a little since this painting was done in 1948.  Regardless, Wyeth definitely took artistic liberty in his depiction of the scene!  This is the view that is closest to the painting.  The large tree was not there in 1948, and the distances are different than shown in the painting.

Christina's World site

We had lunch on a stone by the house.

Anne by the Olson House

The house actually has wooden downspouts. 

Olson house wooden downspout

Wyeth died in 2009, and is buried in a small cemetery near the house (in Cushing, Maine).

Tombstone of Andrew Wyeth

Looking out the point:

Horse on the point

 

The alewife (fish) weren't running yet, so we didn't have the big gathering of feeding osprey .  We did get to see some pigeons, though.

pigeons on a power line

We did, of course, see more birds than pigeons.  There was this cute Mallard.

Mallard in water

One of the area preserves, The LaVerna Preserve, has a trail that goes down a hill to the shoreline.  On a tree that grows fairly close to the rocky shore is an osprey nest.  The view back to the trail from the rocky shore:

LaVerna Trail

From the trail you can get a pretty good view of the nest!

Osprey in next at LaVerna Preserve Maine

The branches kept getting in the way of any good pictures, which meant down further actually gave a better view despite being lower. 

Osprey peaking above nest

Soaring

Osprey against blue sky

Someone is always trying to steal your lunch, if you are an osprey.

Osprey with fish and another osprey in the background

 

 

Osprey looking over shoulder

 

A new-to-us preserve this year was the Rachel Carson Salt Pond & Preserve.  Rachel Carson was a famous conservationist, biologist, and writer.  Her book 'Silent Spring' exposed the impact of pesticides on the environment.  This preserve is fairly small, but we had a nice little walk there. 

Paul and the Carson Salt Pond Preserve sign

Rockport seaport was another new stop for us.  They had a large limestone processing industry in Rockport back in the 1800s.  Limestone came in by rail, and large granite kilns were used to convert it to lime, used in mortar & plaster.  A large fire occurred in 1907, which basically put an end to this industry. 

Rockport triple kilns to process limestone

Cute statue by the kilns

seal statue in Rockport

Also in Rockland is the Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse. 

Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse

 

 

Updated July 2020