Welcome!

 Hello everyone and welcome to my new blog. If you are reading this, thanks for following the facebook link and checking out my blog. I hope you will continue to follow my blog in the future.

What is the good news you ask? I was just offered a 6 month paid internship with the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens www.mainegardens.org. It is a visitor services and environmental education internship with duties similar to my job as a park ranger for USFWS, but more focused on plants, my love! The gardens (250 acres) are located in Booth Bay Harbor, Maine- My new home as of the last week in April. I plan to stay there for a year to experience all the best that Maine has to offer throughout the seasons. Who knows what I will do for the other 6 months, but I think moving somewhere this awesome it is worth staying a whole year, so I'll figure that out later. Booth Bay Harbor is a beautiful historic tourist town.

I've stayed an entire week in Booth Bay when I was 8. Now I return for a year, 20 years later. Here's to reliving some of the things I remember from my first trip there.

All of this means I have about a month to plan my move. Thankfully, my new coworkers are helping me find a place in town (and in Maine, that can be harder than the DC metro area). It also means, I have one month to say goodbye to all my wonderful friends for a year, but likely I will be back in the Balto./DC. area when I return from Maine. As one of my friends from church said "I am on loan to Maine for a year". I am also hoping to have a place where people can come visit and you know you'll want to. I will miss everyone, but I am excited about my new adventures. Thus the start of this blog.

Throughout the next year, I will be sharing all of my adventures from Maine- nature excursions, photos, videos, town explorations, lighthouse and boat trips, etc. And with my nice camera, you know there will be good pictures. This is where I will share most of my adventures, in place of facebook. I have a lot of ideas already toiling around in my head of must do things, but if anyone has any suggestions for adventures, please feel free to share.

The background picture is from Sea Wall at Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor Maine. It's an appropriately themed blog.

Thanks again for reading this- comment here or on Facebook if you wish. Otherwise, I will probably post again closer to the time of my move.