maine

peter fills out forms

amazing landscape

reel pizza

amazing steps!

the magical light of november

early last week i took a trip up to maine to visit my friend peter who lives in bar harbor. i'd never been there before and peter graciously toured me around and introduced me to a number of his friends over the couple days i was able to take off. i met a number of peter's buddys tuesday night at a movie house that's also a bar and pizza joint. the theater has a mix of couches up front and regular theater seats with bar counters between in the rear. it was delightful drinking a beer and eating pizza in a movie theater. gives me some ideas for white river junction.

my last day there i got the opportunity to visit a site for which i designed a building in architecture school 17 years ago. my design wasn't built—it was just a school project—but it would have looked pretty good despite my absence on the field trip. i had intended to take my model up to maine, but forgot.

i love visiting resort destinations off season. there is an element of modern ruin that i find delicious. in evidence are stores, restaurants, bars, hotels, boats, cars, parks, really a whole urban fabric that's been wrapped up, sometimes literally, for the off season. people are scarce. peter and i met one woman during an hour-long evening walk through the heart of bar harbor. it reminds me of purposeless purposiveness. you can see that people were once present in hordes and yet there is no one about. sublime!