Those of you who love Ogunquit and haven’t yet visited during the autumn months are doing yourselves a grave injustice.
Every day has a crystalline quality to it, even the occasional fog and rain are HD vivid. The temperature is whimsical, bouncing between memories of summer heat and impending sweater weather.
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The local businesses gussy up their exteriors with the hallmarks of the season. Pumpkins. Scarecrows. Hay bales. Corn stalks. The final, festive push for many of the summer establishments, which will be closed for the year by late October or early November.
It’s the perfect season for visually stunning rides beneath a canopy of vibrant seasonal colors on winding country roads, catching glimpses of Maine coastline when you’re lucky.
It’s a time of seasonal appreciation, slowing down and absorbing nature’s performance.
It’s easy to get lost in the colors and shapes of a New England autumn. Life cycles ending in a quickly evolving kaleidoscope of fiery colors…death burning bright across the high branches…shaking loose in cold gusts of wind…each leaf journeying further in it’s final moments than it ever dared during an entire lifetime.
Meandering walks on the Marginal Way. The whisper of wood smoke on the salty breeze – oftentimes wafting over from the fireplace at Barnacle Billy’s down in Perkins Cove. Silent togetherness on the memorial benches overlooking rugged, sea-worn cliffs and the magnificent Gulf of Maine.
Aim for the middle of the week to avoid the weekend tourist crowds. Stay at a landmark Ogunquit bed and breakfast, like The Hartwell House Inn, and wake to the comforting aromas of homemade breakfasts and spiced breads, evoking cherished memories of autumns past.
This is the season of romance and mystery, nature and mindfulness, roaring surf and holding hands, rustling leaves and soft sweaters. Look and listen deeply, sense the magic in the magnificent hues of the ebbing year, the pristine clarity of the starry night sky and the daily march of the tides that govern our lives in Ogunquit.
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