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Catherine Schmitt
@coastcompanion.bsky.social
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science writer & author of THE PRESIDENT'S SALMON and other books - TREES OF ACADIA coming April '26
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no shopping, please
opting outside today
into the trees
out of the fray
view up river from a flat salt marsh, the grasses golden, with a forested shoreline adjacent, pine trees prominent, and a blue but cloudy sky.
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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thanks for the reminder about freezing and grating. high hopes for this one! shout out to Maine Grains and Canada for the flour and Peacemeal Farm for the pumpkin.
aerial view of a home-made pumpkin pie
November 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Amazing. Here are some using Pro mode on a Samsung. Cant quite get the speed slow enough.
a stream cascades beneath a stone bridge and through a rock channel a stone bridge with two arches crosses a rocky stream in a forest, whitewater falling toward the foreground.
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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#Bright as a birch in the spruce-fir forest of Acadia National Park.

#BlueSkyArtShow
black and white photo of a paper birch tree at the edge of the woods, white and straight against dense dark foliage of other trees and shrubs.
November 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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This is the distraction I didnt know I needed.

#snailposting
a yellow green snail with a spiral shell on a lichen- covered branch of an apple tree in Acadia National Park
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Last evening at Schoodic Point, Acadia National Park, rain incoming

#BlueSkyArtShow #Evening
horizon of steel blue ocean and cloud filled sky, a background glow and pink seep of setting sun
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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#BlueskyArtShow theme this week is #vertical - like the spruce and pine in Acadia National Park. From yesterday's pre-meeting walk.
a black and white pboto of parallel tree truncks in the forest a black and white pboto of spruce trees rising toward the sky a black and white pboto of trees growing on a steep slope a black and white pboto of a forested mountai side, individual trees distinguishable from their vertical trunks and crowns.
October 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Northern red oak, Acadia National Park.

#stunday
a tall oak tree rises toward a sunny blue sky through a green layered canopy of leaves
October 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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today I learned about an insect that looks like a stick, breathes through a snorkel at one end of its body, grasps prey with "raptorial" appendages and kills with venom. there it was, just hanging out in Jordan Pond with the leeches, frogs, and minnows.
a brown stick with six legs swims through murky water
September 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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#TheRoad
#BlueSkyArtShow
a wide gray road passes through scruffy lawns and modest houses, a few cars in driveways, telephone poles and wires. Some of the trees are turning autumn orange, a large pine tree rises on the left. In the foreground roadside is a rusted metal container spraypainted with the words FREE TAKE IT.
September 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Monarchs are always stunning, especially during migration.

#stunday #AcadiaNationalPark
a saturated photo of a monarch butterfly on seaside goldenrod with a blurry golden bokeh background
September 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Nothing is more #shiny than a chrome guitar under barroom lights.

#BlueSkyArtShow
August 31, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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#shiny sedges lit by the morning sun in the marsh by the highway.

#BlueSkyArtShow
August 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Reminder that it is still summer: a glorious American Basswood tree, Abenaki Territory, Saco River, Maine. #stunday
view up into a forest canopy lit by the sun, all shapes and shades of glowing green, dark lines of trunks, and pieces of blue sky
August 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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My kind of #skyline

at Schoodic Point, Acadia National Park

#BlueSkyArtShow
sun falls across a forested shoreline of spruce trees, their spires rising toward a blue sky streaked with cirrus clouds
August 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Be a climate musk ox! Inspiring talk from @jacquelyngill.bsky.social tonight.
Dr. Jacquelyn Gill speaks fro m a podium beneath a large screen showing two musk ox and the words Be a climate musk ox!
August 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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In Acadia National Park, an eastern white pine doing its best to create a "supracanopy" - for #stunday
A tall, straight and slender white pine rises above smaller evergreens on the shore of a lake, with forested hills filling the background.
August 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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#Jagged as a fern's edge.

Stay tuned for updates on an expedition to find a rare fern in Acadia National Park.

#BlueSkyArtShow
A bright green fern frond stands out against a blurred nackground of more ferns
August 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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even with the haze of smoke and knowledge of accerating erosion, it was a healing day on the beaches of Cape Cod National Seashore.
foaming waves crash on smooth sand beneath a gradually lightening sky in a gradient of blue, gray, pink, and gold. sun rising through hazy sky over a glassy ocean, light reflected in a golden stripe through gentle waves. an empty beach stretches to the horizon, lines of dark pebbles marking high tide waves. view from the top of a wooden staircase down towering dunes to Marconi Beach where people walk and sit under umbrellas and stroll the smooth water's edge.
August 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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#stunday ? I'll play.
sun barely makes an appearance through heavy gray cloud cover over an equally gray ocean, over land on the horizon, and illuminating spruce- clad tan and charcoal rocky cliffs.
July 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Enjoy this Ragged Fringed Orchid blooming ten days ago in a beaver-dammed wetland in Acadia National Park, with its white flowers #alternating along the single, green stem.
#BlueSkyArtShow
July 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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#smooth as the sloping granite beneath Canon Brook, flowing through a forested valley in Acadia National Park. #BlueSkyArtShow
July 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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#SummerDaze is a late afternoon at Echo Lake Beach after climbing up the overlooking cliffs in Acadia National Park. #BlueSkyArtShow
a pair of sneakers in the sand at the edge of a lake. two children sweep the shallows with nets in the shadow of wooded mountain cliffs.
July 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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A #Sideways Pink-Edged Sulphur Butterfly on a yellow hawkweed for the #BlueSkyArtShow
July 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Gonna start posting more photos here, I guess.

Tiny orange Least Skipper Butterfly perched on a leaf in @altacadia.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM