All seems better

The dinghy outboard motor has continued to run flawlessly.  We've decided to take a "wait and see" approach.  This happened last year when we first started using it after the winter and again, after a few runs, it seemed to get itself back in order and we never had trouble with it that summer.  Fingers crossed...

We have used our time to play tourist.  Friends Phyllis and Peter came up for a couple of days.  Phyllis and I did spend some quality girl time, yarn shopping, lobster rolls for lunch, and just catching up.  Peter had come down with a cold and stayed home that day.  The next day he felt better, so the four of us met at an open air location and had a quality Subway lunch.  Perfect to get Peter out and to keep his germs away from us.  Peter and Luke did their own catching up at the waterfront in Rockport while we girls again went to a yarn shop.

The next day, to the town of Damariscotta.  Damariscotta is a cute, typical Maine little 4 block tourist town with a beautiful little waterfront, a really good fish market, a really really good homemade ice cream store, and a wonderful yarn shop.  Main Street is actually Hwy 1, the main highway through coastal Maine.  The waterfront looks quiet, calm, and well, little.

But, oh, what this town used to be!  Straight from the information at the waterfront -

The next day, we  toured the Farnsworth  Art Museum  http://www.farnsworthmuseum.org/
The Farnsworth is a private museum, full of beautiful art including a large collection of "local" artists NC, Andrew and Jamie Wythe.  If you get to Rockland, definitely plan to spend a few hours here. Very reasonable, about $13 per senior adult.

A second part of the Farnsworth experience is a tour of the Olson house, about 16 miles away.  The Olson home is where Andrew Wythe had a study and did a lot of his paintings.  Rather than "renovated", the home is kept at the same unpainted, unrepaired state that it was when Christina and her brother Alvaro Olson died.

The most famous is "Christina's World", depicting his close friend, the handicapped Christina, in her field, crawling back to the house.

We think Luke is standing at the same angle in the field, certainly not as far from the house.

The house is mostly empty, with only a few chairs and Christina's crib.

Here is the blue door between the kitchen and Alvaro's attached workshop.  This painting is so popular that Benjamin Moore has a "Wythe Blue" color, approximately the same shade of blue.

Yes, that door is still the same, even with the scratch marks from the dog, asking to come inside.

Right after both Christina and Alvaro died, Andrew did a painting "End of Olsons", a view from a third floor window.

Here is basically that same view, but a little more grown over and without any artist's "license". The road isn't seen for the trees and there is definitely not a car in Andrew's painting!

The Olson's are interned at a small cemetery close to the house. Andrew Wythe is buried here, also.

I enjoy wandering through the streets of town.   Luke is off to the library again, a marine electronics place, and a small Sail, Power, and Steam Museum in town.  Smokey is basking in the sun in the cockpit.  I am spending the day aboard doing my blog and catching up on lazy knitting (all those visits to the yarn shop inspired me!).

Tomorrow and Sunday we will be at a mooring beside friends from last year, Barb and Jim.  They have a trawler, but we'll forgive them :-)  Actually, it is very nice and makes me sort of want one...
Monday, the 3rd, we will leave Rockland for about 3 weeks.  Friends from FL, Ange and Ray, will be here for a week in late July.  Before then, we will spend a couple of days in Camden for the July 4th celebration and fireworks, and then hopefully some sailing to where ever we and the wind chose.