Just try to change it

‘‘Fate’’ (handmade paper, thread, Coloraid, encaustic paint, oil stick on braced panel) by Portland, Maine-based artist Kimberly Curry, who says she finds inspiration in the everyday things around her and in landscape.

A Casco Bay Lines ferry returning to Portland after its journey out into the bay

— Photo by Dudesleeper 

Leave it to those species

Lobstermen in Casco Bay, Maine

As a child of Maine, he knew better than to learn to swim in the water {there}; the Maine water, in Wilbur Larch’s opinion, was for summer people and lobsters.’’

— John Irving, in his (1985) novel Cider House Rules