About

They’re each on separate coasts but I think that the deep Maine woods shares some similarities to the Pacific Northwest. —Mark Duplass

I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn’t find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine. —Parker Stevenson in Margaret Dornfeld and Joyce Hart. Maine.

After some decades on the West coast, I returned to Maine, somewhat unexpectedly. I came for a Christmas visit, but stayed to help my elderly Mom.

I kept a blog for some years about life in the Pacific Northwest, more specifically, life in the Puget Sound area. This site, Something Downeast is in some ways an homage to the earlier Something Pacific.

I am a terrible photographer. I often take photos through the window, and generally, my camera is my phone. I apologize in advance.