If you haven't had the opportunity to visit northern Maine, it's a definite add to your bucket list.  I was lucky enough to have lived in Belfast, ME. for five years, a small town on the Penebscot Bay south of Bar Harbor. 

 

While Maine winters can be brutal.  Cold, long and yes, a lot of snow...  All of this makes one cherish and look forward to the beautiful summers on the coast.

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Only 15 miles south of Belfast, past Camden, is a small sandy beach known as Crescent Beach.

 

I spent many weekends at Crescent Beach.  Sketching and photographing so many inspiring images for my art.  The photo I took looking down at the rocks on the beach was my inspiration for this painting.