Very nice! #2 has wonderful detail.

Beautiful lighting and #1 is really composed well. You must have caught a perfect day with a light cloud cover making the sky a giant softbox. The lack of heavy dark shadows make your shots very appealing.

Great find and a nice shot! One thing I can proclaim without reservation: This is not Amish construction!

I've been there a number of times and there are many places worth seeing if you hang along the coast. Notably for my experience -- Bath, Rockland, and Camden are worth a visit. The Portland Head Lighthouse is really nice.

From the first time I visited about 30 years ago to my last visit in 2022, Acadia has changed a lot. I recall pulling up to a closed gate (just a bar across the road) to drive up to the top of Mt. Desert Island. I wanted to be the first person in America for just one day to see the sunrise. I did that. Fast forward to today -- no longer a simple road leading to the top -- now it is almost a major road with a guard gate. You have to book your visit ahead of time with the hour you plan to visit. It seems there is a two-hour window like 11:00 to 1:00. If you don't make that time, you can't visit without rebooking.

One thing I wanted to see was Moose. They are not so prevalent along the coast and I have seen only one female. Someone told me if I wanted to see moose, it would be better to head inland toward Baxter State Park and Mt. Kathadin. My next visit I will try to head inland but so far in my six or seven trips there I've always stayed along the coast.

There is so much to look at in your example it is hard to identify differences. The one element I concentrated on because it is easily identified is the horizontal branch at the bottom of the photo. It is much clearer with more contrast in the top shot as compared to the bottom one.

The old axiom of believing nothing you hear and only half what you see no longer applies.

Not far north of HH is a park called Donnelley Wildlife Management Area. It is along Hwy 17. I've seen spoonbills, egrets, herons, wading birds like sandpipers, and eagles there. Also lots of large alligators. If you take a drive over to Savanah there is a very nice train museum with an operating turntable.

Enjoy your trip!

It's all relative -- a piece of change, maybe not. A 100.00 bill definitely! A beautiful woman, maybe just fall down beside her hoping neither of you get up!

Great marketing, poor cash-flow management -- they still lose money!

I signed up for one of those a few years ago. I can't remember the details but all that was required was to sign a postcard and return it. I think I received a grand sum of around 13.00!

Sam's just got in a new version of the Epson -- pretty basic model but the price is right -- 179.98.

Many years ago I worked as an apprentice in a manufacturing jewelry shop. We made jewelry as well as set stones and sold high-end jewelry. One day I asked the owner of the shop why someone would pay 1200.00 for a gold Rolex when we also sold gold-plated Rolexes for 350.00. I told him they were indistinguishable and no one would know the difference. He replied, oh, but the owner would. (Before someone chimes in that Rolex never made gold-plated watches, you need to check the facts -- they did). As you can see, the prices reflect prices from about sixty years ago before the US went off the gold standard. In fact that happened while I worked at the shop and gold was 38.00 an ounce one day and something like 375.00 a day later.

That's for one life -- you get 8 more 30-day warranties.

Some schools have blockers set up so unwanted content can't be accessed by students.

Interesting: The ingredient in the bag of Turkey testicles is Chicken testicles! I can see it now -- mom sends her 12-year-old to the store to buy Turkey testicles and comes home with this. The kid gets raked over the coals for getting chicken, not turkey!