Nubble Lighthouse, York Beach, Maine

Travel Blog 06 08 15

My Sister Jackie and her husband Frank (aka Uncle Frank) have a cottage in York Beach, Maine. In Colorado we would call it a cabin, in the tropics it’s called a bure, in Mexico, heck they call it a villa. Anyway, a short walk down a dirt road and BOOM, you have your camera in your hand. The Nubble Lighthouse looms in the distance demanding your undivided attention. Perched on a small “nub” of land poking out of the Atlantic Ocean, the lighthouse was built in 1879 to protect  mariners from Maine’s rocky coast. It is one of the most photographed lighthouses in all of America.  A quintessential New England House (red roof) is attached to the lighthouse by a covered walkway. It is very old and very picturesque. Nobody lives there anymore because the light house is now “automated”. My imagination creates scenarios of romance, weather and the Atlantic Ocean mixed with New England grit. I’m glad they keep it up because I don’t want to give up my Nubble light house photos- thru- the ages. Every visit I fall prey to the allure of taking its picture; in front of, to the side of, backed up against, The Nubble. Every cell phone I ever owned has season upon season of the Nubble. We have an oil painting of it in our living room. It sticks with you.