Thanks, but this would have been more informative if it had included pics of leaves, bark and acorns for each of the species.

Also, I believe the pin oak is native to Maine too.

It's the only Henniker on Earth!

Dude, this year mud season is now!

Before we moved to Maine we lived in Avalon, Santa Catalina Island for a few years. The town has had a history of hispanics living there year round from the earliest days when the Wriggleys first built the town.

My wife worked for the owner of a string of 3 restaurants there which naturally employed quite a few hispanics. Some old time island families, some newcomers trying to get a leg up and some recent arrivals from Mexico just passing through. As the payroll clerk, she got to know and became friendly with nearly all of them. Especially in the off season when the town population drained from 10K to about 2K.

We learned she had been accepted, or at least appreciated by some of them our first Christmas on the island when she would frequently find a box of fresh home made tamales on the seat of her golf cart after work, sometimes with a note, others totally anon.

The last few days before Christmas we could pretty much count on some cute young kids knocking on our door with a bag of fresh tamales, giggling and saying Feliz Navidad nearly every day.

They were amazingly good but OMG, so rich and filling. We've never had any that good since moving off the island and really miss them, but by the second Christmas we had to start giving them to other Anglo friends.

Man, nor woman, can not live by tamales alone. Try as we might!

I think you've got your pandemics mixed up there.

Some righty is gonna see that and comment "See, that mask did nothing at all for him! I was right all along!"

All props to the stop sign.

I get it completely. You didn't even have to say what color it was.

There are basically 2 types of dogs in Maine. Steamed dogs, which tend to be greyish in color and are mushy and flavorless. The highpoint of eating one is the roll, especially if it's stale or moldy. I ate one once from a cart in a hardware store parking lot in Bath. I'm now cured of ever eating another.

Red snappers are usually cooked on the rolling grills that spin them endlessly in their own grease. The skins are so tough they snap like a pigs ear when you bite into it. Chewing them is good mandibular exercise.

I saw some rolling in a little glass box in the office of a gas station in Phippsburg recently and fled after paying my bill. The smell permeated my clothes in the 2 minutes I was there. Carbon dating them before eating might be a good idear.

Short scraper, long reach scraper and back up scraper, bare minimum survival kit.

Clearly everyone missed the money shot... "in November!!!"

We attended the season ending Bowdoin football game against Colby last night, under the lights, in shorts and a long sleeve shirt!!! Mid November, in Maine, pretty fuckin' awesome! California ain't got nothin' on that! Bowdoin even won, spectacularly!

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But yes, the OP's shoes are Bud Tugly!

The low IQers, ie, Trumpists, obviously equate yard signs, bumper stickers, flags and such as electoral votes. They revel in their muchness.

I personally, won't place a politcal bumper sticker on my vehicle or a campaign sign on my land. It's reverse psychology. My vote is my secret. Let them believe they won right up until they didn't.

I can't imagine a larger asshole, so I'll just name it Drumph!

ETA! Ooops, that may be interpreted as being exclusively divisive, so allow me to include Eric, Jared, Ivanka and DJ II.

See, we can be inclusive!

Hey, that just means I can string them along all night long!

I better turn in early, C-ya!

Oooooh baby, got any pics? I mean, if I have to run back and forth between Aug and Lew, I should know what I'm burning gas for, no? I pitch, catch and mix a mean martini!

And for those of you using mail in ballots, please remember the Trump appointed Postmaster whose job it is to slow down and ultimately dismantle the USPS, and whom has been largely successful at decreasing the postal service efficiency.

If you must mail in your ballot, please do it very early!

Great to read all the awesome experiences and tips here, thanks folks!

We were similarly enchanted with the idea of going to the Bracebridge Dinner in Yosemite Valley back in the 80s and 90s. It was a purely random lottery draw that we entered for about 8 years straight before we finally were selected in 1994. We felt so overjoyed and fortunate!

Then, upon being seated at our table on that very special night we learned that for most of our table mates this was their second or even third Bracebridge. So much for the randomness. We never did learn how our neighbors managed to improve their luck, but we definitely felt like the poor relations at that table.

Here's hoping TLK is a little more even handed.

Do I understand you correctly that the people to whom you are delivering the food threatened you with guns or yelled at you? Not some other party?

If so, my only thought is crank can make people stupidly mean.

Ya know, it could be HIM, doing research for the next big one!

Who will be playing Jamie Lee Curtiss' role?

If we attend, will we be alive and physically intact at the end of the party?

Collins is bad, I agree, but Palin is exponentially worse. But yeah, why anyone would vote for either is a mystery.

Ooops, ya got me. There's at least one!

No one in Maine would ever vote for a numbskull like Sarah Palin for, well, for anything.

Like Alaska, however, we can see Canada from our front porch.

Our neighbor across the street was dry at 400' so they fracked. They got water but it wasn't fit to drink and too dirty to treat economically.

Our well, roughly 500 ft away, came in strong with clean water at 200', no treatment necessary. It's a crapshoot, especially if you drill near a tidal river.

JFC, this is a sideline among friends for bragging rights. It's fun to watch, costs the public nothing and is as Maine as it gets.

Leave your petty shit behind for a minute and enjoy Maine for what it is.

Most of you spend more on your I phones than these guys do on racing.

Go out on the water on a beautiful sunny summer day, anchor with about 100 friends and strangers all in 'It's summah in Maine!' party mode, watch the boats race, most with family and pets aboard, go home smiling and wishing for more.

If this makes you piss and moan, you're in the wrong state, bub.