Towle Tompkins

Ice Pond: Reid State Park: Georgetown, Maine

Kayakers on the Sheepscot River: Reid State Park: Georgetown, Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Sheepscot River: Reid State Park: Georgetown, Maine

Sharks are now in Maine waters: Reid State Park: Georgetown, Maine

October 19: Sunday greetings from Georgetown, Maine. Fun Fact: On this date in 1985, the first Blockbuster video-rental store opened. During Blockbuster's 30-year run, its most-rented VHS tape: "The Lion King." Its least-rewound VHS tape: "Jane Fonda's Workout." With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Five Islands, Georgetown, Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Five Islands, Georgetown, Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Five Islands, Georgetown, Maine

Five Islands, Georgetown, Maine

October 18: Saturday greetings from Five Islands in Georgetown, Maine - 50 miles northeast of Portland. Maine has more than 4,600 islands and five of those are Crocker, Douglas, Haskell, Little, and Oar Islands, which are visible from the Five Islands area. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Prouts Neck: Scarborough, Maine

White-tailed deer: Cape Elizabeth, Maine

Greater yellowlegs: Maine's Scarborough Marsh

Maine's Scarborough Marsh

October 17: Friday greetings from Southern Maine on Wear Something Gaudy Day. Just follow Teddy Roosevelt's famous advice: "Speak softly and wear something gaudy." With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Maine's Scarborough Marsh. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social

A cormorant & a non-breeding adult semipalmated plover in Southern Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social

East Wilton, Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Astors in Maine's Scarborough Marsh. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social

October 16: Thursday greetings from Maine.

Today's Photos by @feliciakk57.bsky.social
1. Maine's Scarborough Marsh
2. A cormorant & a non-breeding adult semipalmated plover in Southern Maine
3. East Wilton, Maine
4. Astors in Maine's Scarborough Marsh

Maine's Scarborough Marsh. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social

A clamdigger on the Nonesuch River: Scarborough, Maine

Maine's Scarborough Marsh

Maine's Scarborough Marsh. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social

October 15: Midweek greetings from Southern Maine. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Scarborough, Maine

Randall Orchards Farm Stand: Standish, Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Great blue heron: Maine's Scarborough Marsh

Stage Island Harbor: Cape Porpoise: Kennebunkport, Maine

October 14: Tuesday greetings from Southern Maine on National Dessert Day. Or, as doctors call it, Death by Chocolate Day. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Long Pond: Saco, Maine

Maine wildlife: a whitetailed buck in Cape Elizabeth & bald eagles in Scarborough

Memorial Cemetery: Scarborough, Maine

Bikers on the Eastern Trail through Maine's Scarborough Marsh

October 13: Monday greetings from Southern Maine. Today is singer-songwriter Paul SImon's 84th birthday, which is why all of today's photos were taken by me and Julio on Kodachrome film. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Bethel, Maine

Portland Head Light: Cape Elizabeth, Maine

Cape Elizabeth, Maine

On National Farmers Day, some vintage Maine farm tractors

October 12: Sunday greetings from Southern Maine on National Farmers Day, which honors a profession that began 12,000 years ago. Back when Really Old MacDonald had a farm. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Maine's Scarborough Marsh

Nonesuch River: Scarborough, Maine

Randall Orchards: Standish, Maine

Second-year bald eagle: Scarborough, Maine

October 11: Saturday greetings from Southern Maine. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Scarborough, Maine

Cape Porpoise Harbor: Kennebunkport, Maine

250 feet above Fortunes Rocks: Biddeford, Maine

On Curaçao Day, a 2006 photo of the pastel-colored architecture in the capital, Willemstad

October 10: Friday greetings from Southern Maine on Curaçao Day, the anniversary of the Caribbean island becoming a nation within the Dutch Kingdom. Among Curaçao's charms is its pastel-colored architecture, as seen in Photo #4, taken by Towle in 2006. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Scarborough, Maine fall foliage

Randall Orchards: Standish, Maine

Stage Island Harbor: Cape Porpoise: Kennebunkport, Maine

Spa day for a crow: Scarborough, Maine

October 9: Thursday greetings from Southern Maine. On this date in 1992, in Peekskill, NY, Michelle Knapp's Chevy Malibu was hit by a meteorite from the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars. Unfortunately, the meteorite had homed in on the Chevy's OnStar signal. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Maine's Scarborough Marsh

Cape Porpoise: Kennebunkport, Maine

Etherington Pond / Fortunes Rocks Beach / Atlantic Ocean: Biddeford, Maine

Maine's Scarborough Marsh

October 8: Midweek greetings from Southern Maine. Fun Fact: On this date in 1945, Raytheon Manufacturing filed a patent for the microwave oven, and now 90 percent of homes have a microwave oven - all of which reek of burned coffee and popcorn. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

This morning's Harvest Moon setting over Scarborough, Maine

Goat Island Lighthouse: Kennebunkport, Maine

Cape Porpoise: Kennebunkport, Maine

A loon in the Nonesuch River: Scarborough, Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social  

October 7: Tuesday greetings from Southern Maine. WIth @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Pre-sunrise this morning: Maine's Scarborough Marsh

Pre-sunrise this morning: Maine's Scarborough Marsh

This morning above Pine Point Road & Maine's Scarborough Marsh

Loon: Nonesuch River: Scarborough, Maine

October 6: Monday greetings from Southern Maine. WIth @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Camp Ellis Reach: Saco, Maine

Chase Farms: Wells, Maine

Chase Farms: Wells, Maine

Saco, Maine

October 5: Sunday greetings from Southern Maine. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

A murmuration of starlings over Maine's Scarborough Marsh

Amtrak tracks: Scarborough, Maine

Ferry Beach: Scarborough, Maine

The Palace Playland ferris wheel: Old Orchard Beach, Maine

October 4: Saturday greetings from Southern Maine on National Taco Day and National Vodka Day. You hadn't thought about it, but now you know what to have for breakfast. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Fuller Farm: Scarborough, Maine

The view from Bradbury Mountain State Park: Pownal, Maine

Androscoggin River Reservoir: Rumford, Maine

Least sandpiper: Nonesuch River: Maine's Scarborough Marsh

October 3: Friday greetings from Maine. Fun Facts: On October 3, 1961, “The Dick Van Dyke Show” debuted on CBS. And on this date in 1990, East and West Germany reunited after 45 years - finally allowing East Germans to watch Mary Tyler Moore exclaim, "Oh, Rob!" With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

A great blue heron speeds through Maine's Scarborough Marsh

The 1840 Sparhawk Mill: Yarmouth, Maine

Scarborough, Maine

Rumford Center, Maine

October 2: Thursday greetings from Maine. Today is the birthdate of three mononymous notables: Indian philosopher Gandhi (born 1869), comic actor Groucho (1890), and the musician Sting (1951). Oddly, when each of them was born, they all had the same middle name: Björk. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Pumpkins in Western Maine

East WIlton, Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Androscoggin River: Rumford, Maine

Androscoggin River Reservoir: Rumford, Maine

October 1: Wednesday greetings from Western Maine. Wiyh @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Babb's Covered Bridge: Presumpscot River: Gorham/Windham, Maine

Babb's Covered Bridge: Presumpscot River: Gorham/Windham, Maine

Babb's Covered Bridge: Presumpscot River: Gorham/Windham, Maine

Babb's Covered Bridge: Presumpscot River: Gorham/Windham, Maine

September 30: Tuesday greetings from Maine and Babb's Covered Bridge on the Gorham/Windham town lines. The bridge was built in 1840, destroyed by arson in 1973, rebuilt in 1976, damaged last year by an overweight truck, and reopened in February. We gave it a big hug. WIth @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Nonesuch River: Scarborough, Maine

Cape Elizabeth, Maine

Great egret: Maine's Scarborough Marsh

Willard Beach: South Portland, Maine

September 29: Monday greetings from Southern Maine. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

On the 21st annual World Rivers Day - photos we've taken of notable rivers here and abroad

On the 21st annual World Rivers Day - photos we've taken of notable rivers here and abroad

On the 21st annual World Rivers Day - photos we've taken of notable rivers here and abroad

On the 21st annual World Rivers Day - photos we've taken of notable rivers here and abroad

September 28: Sunday greetings on the 21st annual World Rivers Day - with photos we've taken of notable rivers here and abroad. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Custom House Wharf: Portland, Maine

Cape Porpoise Fish House: Kennebunkport, Maine

Great egret & cormorant: Maine's Scarborough Marsh

Asters: Frith Farm: Scarborough, Maine

September 27: Saturday greetings from Maine. Fun Fact: On this date in 1822, the Ancient Egyptian tablet known as the Rosetta Stone was deciphered, unlocking Egyptian hieroglyphics. And the very first sentence: "May Cause Drowsiness - Do Not Operate Heavy Machinery." W/@feliciakk57.bsky.social

Pre-sunrise this morning over Maine's Scarborough Marsh

Pre-sunrise this morning over Maine's Scarborough Marsh

A pair of great blue herons hanging out this morning in Scarborough, Maine

Pre-sunrise this morning over Scarborough, Maine

September 26: Friday greetings from Scarborough, Maine. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Pre-sunrise: Maine's Scarborough Marsh

Scarborough, Maine

A herring gull & a great egret in the Nonesuch River: Scarborough, Maine

Kayaking in the Nonesuch River: Scarborough, Maine

September 25: Thursday greetings from Scarborough, Maine. Reminder, it's only three months until Christmas. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Pre-sunrise this morning: Nonesuch River: Scarborough, Maine

Pre-sunrise this morning: Nonesuch River: Scarborough, Maine

The Wire Bridge: New Portland, Maine. 2018 photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Great blue heron & snowy egret in Maine's Scarborough Marsh

September 24: Midweek greetings from Southern Maine on National Punctuation Day. Punctuation clarifies the written word by using periods, question marks, semicolons, and exclamation points. Not so clarifying, however, is that Culture Club song, "Comma Chameleon." With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

The new Hulu documentary, "Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery," is the story of the 1997 to 1999 tours that showcased female musicians, and raised more than $10 million for local charities. The moving force behind those tours was Sarah McLachlan, seen here in photos we took at her 2014 Bangor, Maine concert. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Maine's Scarborough Marsh

Camden, Maine

Smiling Hill Farm: Westbrook, Maine

September 23: Tuesday greetings from Maine. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Goosefare Brook: Ocean Park: Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Cormorant: Nonesuch River: Scarborough, Maine

Smiling Hill Farm: Westbrook, Maine

Maine's Scarborough Marsh

September 22: Monday greetings from Southern Maine on the northern hemisphere's autumnal equinox, when the Earth is angled sideways to the sun, and day and night are of equal lengths. So... boring and snoring? With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

Ocean Park: Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Maine's Scarborough Marsh

Dana Warp Mill: Presumpscot River: Saccarappa Falls: Westbrook, Maine

Dogs romping on the beach at Camp Ellis: Saco, Maine

September 21: Sunny Sunday greetings from Southern Maine. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social

A fishing boat on Casco Bay: Cape Elizabeth, Maine

Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Maine's Scarborough Marsh

The ginormous 3,500-passenger, 18-deck, 1,082-foot-long Majestic Princess dwarfs South Portland, Maine's Bug Light this morning en route to its berth in Portland

September 20: Saturday greetings from Southern Maine, and happy birthday to author George R.R. Martin, whose fantasy-novels "A Song of Ice and Fire" were the basis for HBO's "Game of Thrones." Today, Martin turns 77. His two dragons turn 422. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social