• Enough of the all-natural, the herbal, the ‘as nature intended’ – I’m ready for the drugs!

  September 29, 2010

• You know I’m feeling like crap when I resort to this. Enter gag reflex.

  September 29, 2010

• Donna, soaking up the scenery at Long Pond in Acadia National Park.

  September 28, 2010

• On a number of occasions, I caught my dad napping in the back of the kayak while my mom paddled away. Good thing those kayaks don’t have rear-view mirrors.

  September 28, 2010

• How to get four family members, yourself included, into one photo while kayaking on a lake…

  September 28, 2010

• I decided to live on the wild side and unbuckle my personal flotation device – those things are friggin’ hot on a sunny day.

  September 28, 2010

• We went from 55 degrees yesterday in Maine to 100+ here in Thousand Oaks. Whew!

  September 27, 2010

• Donna made a new friend at the mall today.

  September 27, 2010

• I’ve discovered an Apple product that is simply too big for my big ape hands.

  September 27, 2010

• Cassie and Joe (my family’s dogs) would be terribly jealous to see this photo of my dad making a few new friends in Acadia. Fortunately my sister’s computer is password protected, to keep the dogs from surfing the web and running across content like this.

  September 27, 2010

• I thought this would be an awesome location for a bikini photo shoot. I couldn’t sell Donna on the idea.

  September 27, 2010

• Mom and dad make their way to one of our last spots in Acadia – a rather remote, not-so-well-marked cove. A half-mile hike lead us to some beautiful scenery and some slippery rocks.

  September 27, 2010

• It was like returning to the scene of the crime, when we pulled into the shop that served fried cheesecake. Mom made a valiant effort but ultimately has to rely on her supportive family to polish off the dessert that can challenge even the most sophisticated sugar aficionados.

  September 27, 2010

• Given the U.S Flag, the white wood siding, and the red picnic tables, Coca-Cola cups would have really completed the photo. My sister would have much preferred they served Coke too – my poor sis had to survive an entire week with almost no Coke at all. I noticed a few withdrawal symptoms but she seemed to cope pretty well.

  September 27, 2010

• Any body of water that extends for four miles, should not have the word ‘pond’ in it’s name – maybe by Maine standards, but as far as I;m concerned, it was a lake. Tiff and Patti made it almost 8 miles in a little over three hours.

  September 27, 2010

• We went kayaking on Long Pond our last day in Acadia. Tiff and her friend took off like a shot the second they hit the water, never to be seen again until they returned to shore more than three hours later. Mom kept watch for the girls after we returned from our slightly shorter expedition.

  September 27, 2010

• We spent about five hours looking for the contact lens that mom lost while hiking to Otter Cliff. Yes, I’m kidding. I don’t recall exactly what mom and dad were doing here, but we were en route to Otter Cliff, which can be seen in the distance.

  September 27, 2010

• One of the many scenic shoreline areas of Acadia National Park. We got to see it once with beautiful blue skies and once with a cool, foggy, overcast setting.

  September 27, 2010

• There was little Fall color to be found when we arrived in Bar Harbor, but by the end of the week, reds and yellows were popping up everywhere.

  September 27, 2010

• We can be rather clumsy, so we take helmets even when we’re just going for a walk. Actually, this was from our bike ride around Eagle Lake in Acadia National Park. I don’t know how we managed to get a photo with no bikes anywhere in sight.

  September 27, 2010