This delectably sun-backlit scene was encountered on a leisurely stroll through the gardens. Hard to improve on Mother Nature in landscape photography. [UFP0902712]
![This delectably sun-backlit scene was encountered on a leisurely stroll through the gardens. Hard to improve on Mother Nature in landscape photography. [UFP0902712]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/ME-2012-2014/i-GTC33hC/1/fdcc0f5c/L/TFB_5053-L.jpg)
![View of East Boothbay Harbor through bountiful accumulation of kelp, left behind during low tide. [UFP092712]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/ME-2012-2014/i-ZbK3VVq/4/411aa6cd/Ti/TFB_4871-Ti.jpg)
![This frame and two following, "Tidely-Idely," a retired, colorfully painted row boat permanently berthed in the children's section of the spectacular Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. Note enrapturing "eye-candy" reflection. The Gardens, opened in 2007, consists of 248 acres of donated land that includes 3,600 feet of tidal-shore frontage in Boothbay. A more magnificent botanical garden will not be found anywhere in the known world. [UFP092712]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/ME-2012-2014/i-LTVPJvW/4/f6663264/Ti/TFB_5033-Ti.jpg)
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![The prow, up close and personal. Special graphic effect applied. Not sure what it means, but name is catchy. Oh, maybe that's it -- as in catch-ing fish.[UFP092712]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/ME-2012-2014/i-GHwwN6w/1/f8267eaa/Ti/TFB_5035-Ti.jpg)
![This "mobile" of yard implements caught my eye. Alas, they were not for sale. Special graphic effect applied. [UFP092712]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/ME-2012-2014/i-gw9tnHW/1/626764c4/Ti/TFB_5050-Ti.jpg)
![This and two frames following, an array of eyeball-arresting ornamental grasses. Colors shown are 100% natural, not "enhanced" in Photoshop. [UFP092712]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/ME-2012-2014/i-fHWczHR/4/f5050e4d/Ti/TFB_4997-Ti.jpg)
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![This delectably sun-backlit scene was encountered on a leisurely stroll through the gardens. Hard to improve on Mother Nature in landscape photography. [UFP0902712]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/ME-2012-2014/i-GTC33hC/1/fdcc0f5c/Ti/TFB_5053-Ti.jpg)
![This frame and next, lobster boat parked at dock in a cove behind the gardens. Setting sun bathed it in eerie blueish tones.[UFP092712]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/ME-2012-2014/i-K3Btwmn/1/fbd3ad6a/Ti/TFB_5103-Ti.jpg)
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![Seen-better-days lobster boat in drydock, near vessel pictured in previous two frames. [UFP092712]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/ME-2012-2014/i-975QjwH/2/2c4773f7/Ti/Sarah%20C-Ti.jpg)
![What the heck is this?! Granted, it may cause visual confusion, at least initially. The bottom half is a water-reflected mirror image of a shingle-sided boat house in New Harbor. Photo was taken from the edge of a parallel pier. [UFP101112]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/ME-2012-2014/i-b6dLwvs/1/639dc9f0/Ti/TFB_6964-Ti.jpg)
![Lobsterperson's dinghy languishing in shed at New Harbor. What caught my eye were the contrasting colors and especially the makeshift orange-colored window "treatment." [UFP101112]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/ME-2012-2014/i-JSNBM6F/1/ef4d445e/Ti/TFB_6889-Ti.jpg)
![Twilight in New Harbor harbor. [UFP101112]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/ME-2012-2014/i-W6GQPZZ/2/04af9a16/Ti/TFB_7037-Ti.jpg)
![Dinghy-turned-planter, Bailey's Island, near Boothbay. [UFP101312]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/ME-2012-2014/i-nkZ4JDQ/1/919ec0e8/Ti/TFB_7278-Ti.jpg)
![Aging Mary Anna II, one of many lobster boats that call Friendship, ME, home. Although small physically, Friendship is one of the busiest fishing villages on entire 3,478-mile coast. Was there a Mary Anna I? You betcha. [UPF902012]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/ME-2012-2014/i-Kx2k7Bw/1/0e4e021f/Ti/Mary%20Anna%20II-Ti.jpg)
![This and two frames following, sunset at a hidden-away cove on Davis Island, off Highway 1 south of Rockland. [UFP101312]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Travel/ME-2012-2014/i-NjV9BgH/4/6da614e2/Ti/TFB_7896-Ti.jpg)
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