The weather has been holding beautifully...and still cool enough that the bugs haven't come out in force! We've been over on our land every day this week...except the day we went down to Portland. So I took some photos of our 40 acre property in Plymouth that we hope to call 'home' in the not too distant future.

This is early Spring in Maine...hints of low green grass and tiny buds just beginning to emerge. The snow is melted along with the ice and it's wonderful to see the blue hues of Plymouth Pond in the distance.

Here I backed up the hill a little more so you can make out the pond better. The little town of Plymouth lies on the other side of a causeway or low bridge that basically cuts the pond through the middle...and provides a great place for fishermen...and women...and fisher-kiddos...to hang out!



Excuse the limitations of my cheapo camera, but if you look carefully,  that faint lavender rise in the distance is 5000 ft. Mt. Katahdin in Baxter State Park. Being the tallest mountain in Maine, it still has snow over its top...making it more easy to spot! Mt. Katahdin is a more rounded hump shaped mountain as opposed to a straight up pointed peak...it took me awhile to get used to that...I kept looking for some tall sharp peak in the distance. Nope. Not here.

Our property is rather narrow up here where it's been cleared but then it spreads out there at the back with the majority of it being these woods that pretty much encompass this whole side of the pond. My husband has located the outer boundaries of the property but there's much of it still unexplored...and way too dense to get through except in the winter on snow shoes or XC skis.

Looking back up the hill is our log home still awaiting its roof...among a host of other things too overwhelming for me to fathom at the moment! ; )

Remember the Lovin' the Lean-to we finished in March? Well, here it is now...no longer surrounded by pretty white snow. We've been clearing the small saplings and a path to get down here...

The children LOVE it in these woods...it's non-stop entertainment! The kind of entertainment we like!

This is mid-way in clearing the path into the woods. Eventually I'd like to thin this out enough to create a woodland garden down here. You can see the back field behind the trees. Our cleared fields are now officially 'organic' so it's great to have so much potential there. We're so enthused over all the possibilities for this place...for this land...OUR land!

 


Comments

Carole

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:10:37

Deb, it's wonderful! I can't wait until you can actually live there! (I'll bet I'm not the only one, huh?) : )

 

Karen

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:42:02

There's a beautiful promise in God's Word. It's found in Isaiah 65:21-24. It is my prayer for you.

 

mom

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:41:25

I just was reading a neat booklet this very day on creating gardens in small spaces with varying amounts of sunlight. And here you're commenting about trying for a woodland garden. Book has lots of unusable stuff, but really a good overall feel for using YOUR particular space-- trees, shrubs, flowers, of course, but also groundcovers, different uses for pots/urns, etc. And isn't early spring wonderful?? Grass & weeds not started yet & all looks neat--& you can still see thru the trees for a better look at what's beyond.

 



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