Big Sky Maine

Well, it's finally starting to warm up here, Thank Goodness!!
We are all so tired of the skating rink driveway. Naomi took her second spill on the ice this past weekend, this one was a doozie. Her feet went out from under her and she was flat on her back before she could even think. You know when you get that feeling that you are suddenly hanging horizontal in the air and dropped flat on your back side. Yup, it was a rough morning, but she has bounced back ok. Every muscle in her body hurt for the first few days but late yesterday she was finally starting to sound like herself.

Chloe, Fayth, and Fin are getting along very well, The move has been kind of amazing because where there used to be a lot of oil and water, now I catch them all playing together more. The only exception is maybe in the mornings getting ready for school, when they're all tired. Unfortunately I don't think I'm raising "morning persons" Maybe Infinity, but definitely not the other two.

Anyway with the warm up here it's been getting more beautiful, For most of the time since we've moved here you could not see much of the scenery while you were driving around, The snow was banked up super high along the sides of the road, I swear 12 feet or more in some places, so driving to work in the morning was alot like driving through a tunnel. Just the last few days, since the banks have dwindled, I have caught myself noticing more and more of the scenery going to and from work. At first I thought that I had just not paid attention before, then I realized that the sight was blocked before. This is a very scenic area, not terribly unlike LaCrosse in that respect, similarbut different, Where LaCrosse was beautiful, northern Maine has what I can only describe as a larger sense of perspective. When I look at the distance I'm not seeing a bluff that's a few miles away, I'm seeing a low mountain that is quite a distance away. Flat places of the country that I've lived in, Northern Minnesota and Nebraska, have a certain "Big Sky" feel to them. The sky is an obvious piece of the scenery, probably because there's so much of it. You hear the same about areas of Texas and Montana. Well I have to say that Aroostook County is an impressive combination of Big Sky and Rolling Scenery rolled together.

Added some pictures of a sunset from the other night, not a particularly fantastic sunset color wise, but a pretty typical sunset. Something about it caught me and I just needed to take some pictures, They really translate that Big Sky feeling I was talking about. Anyway...until next time.
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