I have a friend who lives just south of Portland, Maine. Mary knows all the picturesque places to go for a day on the coast of Maine and enjoy a lobster lunch. We decided to drive to Two Lights State Park which features Cape Elizabeth Light and The Lobster Shack!
After lunch we set off on foot to explore the unusual geological formations of the coastline. Rock ledges rise steeply from the ocean in a jumble of huge broken boulders and slabs. What a playground! The ledges are metamorphic rock, which is deep sea sediment (sand and mud) hardened through pressure and heat into layers of rock. These layers have an interesting wood grain quality. Minerals in the rock recrystallized into mica, chlorite, phyllite and quartzite. What powerful stresses caused the fractures and threw it all up into a jumbled mass! This is a great place to scramble and climb and, of course, to photograph. The four of us enjoyed the unusual landscape and each other's company.
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What a beautiful state that Maine is!
I really enjoyed your picture of the lighthouse, it is so scenic!
Another that I liked was the bit of flowers on the rocks near the water...It shows that even in the seemingly rough places of the world, and often in life, beautiful things can spring up or come about. I love how nature can speak such wisdom like that to us, and that with photography we can capture it and almost make it immortal in a sense.
:D
Best Wishes,
Tony
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