In the summer of 2020, Katie, Ben, Alli, Nick, and their kiddos decided to hop in their cars and make the long drive from Virginia and South Carolina all the way up to Maine. They picked Peaks Island as their destination, and they asked me to come spend a few hours on the island with […]

For the past two summers, I have had the extreme pleasure of spending a few hours with the “F” and “G” Families during their summer vacation in Maine. In 2020 and 2021 they vacationed on Peaks Island, and I’ve captured them enjoying lobster and ice cream and adventuring all over one of my favorite places […]

It was three years ago when I first met Debbie, Jamie, Eliana, and Isla at Barretts Park in Boothbay. Since then the pandemic has kept them away, but this year they finally had their return to Maine and New England, and I was so excited for the opportunity to see them once again. This year […]

When I kicked off this project again this year, after a just insane 2021, I promised myself that I would keep up, and post every month. But as life goes, life happened, and I decided that grace is more important than stress. And so, when we arrived home from our Disney vacation at the end […]

Ahh, March. There’s always a big part of me that looks forward to March, and even though my hopes and dreams of sunny 65 degree March days are often shattered year after year, I always enter the month full of anticipation of longer, brighter days, and the beginning of the change to warmer weather. After […]

I love March first. Like, LOVE March first. It’s a dangerous thing to love March first so much as a Mainer – as March can be such a tease or simply just terrible as we all sit here waiting for spring, but every year on March first, I feel hope and know that the warmer […]