This is the house where I lived with my three children when they were young. It is in Lamoine, Maine, a town of 400 across the bay from Bar Harbor. From our dining room we could see the mountains in Acadia National Park. My son Sequoia wanted to see an apple tree in the garden that we had planted when he was six.

This is Schoodic Point, part of Acadia National Park. It's spectacular. The rocks are pink and the gulls do their thing. There had been a big storm and there's a lot of surf. I was petrified Sequoia would fall off the rocks into the sea. That's him in the middle of the picture down by the surf, the existential one.

This is the real lily pond that I paint so often. You can see one here or some larger Monet like water lilies here .

My friend Melita Westerlund is a sculptor. She is a slender woman and very strong. She works in an abandoned Bangor Hydro utility station in downtown Bar Harbor. She welds aluminum into fantastic sculpture and furniture and then paints the pieces in brilliant colors. Here are two new unpainted pieces. (I like them like this.)

This is Scarborough Marsh about fifteen minutes from Portland, Maine, on the way to Prout's Neck where Winslow Homer painted. I painted the marsh all the time. I love it especially in November when it's mauve and purple, but there's no snow yet.

You can't have Maine without Steven King. Here's his latest being shot in August in the coastal town of Camden. I heard that he puts in all his contracts now that the films have to be made in Maine. He lives in Bangor, pronounced Bangaw.

This is Dave and and Liz Buell. Sequoia and I walked through the woods to the old quarry where I remembered that they lived. I once met Liz when Sequoia was two years old and she said, "Oh, you're Sequoia's mother." That's how I've been known ever since I guess. In this little hut Dave and Liz make world class fireworks. He used to make whole scenes, like flaming pictures, that went off every Labor Day at the Blue Hill Fair. He told us the Fair had cut that fancy stuff out of the budget now. But he turned me on to a whole group of pyromaniacs on the web. Search for pyrotechnics. It's unreal.