Circling Eagle

I will get back to the Italy photos, but I want to get through Acadia first, since more of my LJ friends were actually there. Here are a few photos from my Monday bike trip with adfamiliares and elysdir around the Eagle Lake carriage road loop. We rented from the Bar Harbor Bicycle Shop, which I recommend highly (though elysdir had some trouble with his gearshift). ( Snip for pix! )

Swan Swan H

adfamiliares and I fled to the quiet side of the island on Tuesday, just the two of us. We got pizza and bread at the Southwest Harbor pizzeria / bakery we ate at last year (Little Notch), browsed the lovely grocery store next door (lots of fresh produce and artisanal olive oils in shiny urns), climbed Beech Mountain (next post!), and stopped in at the Charlotte Rhoades Park and Butterfly Garden. It is tiny and adorable and almost entirely bereft of butterflies, at least in late August, but there were hummingbirds to make up for it.

( Shockingly, I took some pictures! )