Maine Lakes: Photos, Essays, and Quotes
In Maine Lakes, a book of photographs by Christopher Barnes and text by Sarah Stiles Bright, Bright soars above several familiar lakes in Maine in a “float plane.” Her family memories are distinct and place oriented as she views from above. Sea planes land and take off so often on Great Pond, especially on weekends and good weather days!
Henry David Thoreau once again steals the show in this large photography collection:
“A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye, looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. The fluviatile trees next the shore are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooded hills and cliffs around are its overhanging brows.”
Now, what can top that on a rainy day in Maine and finding this book at the Belgrade Library?
Friends stop by and our helpful librarians help with individual needs and requests. Hot tea or coffee to help stretch time of lingering among the enticing tales on shelves. Thoreau even comments on where to look for change from constant rain, not up to the heavens but look down into a lake’s depth…
Also the beauty of the forest and hills can best be seen from the middle of a small lake according to Thoreau’s observation again in this collection of precious clean lake scenes.
E.B. White chimes in “this constant and trustworthy body of water…each minnow with its small individual shadow…so clear and sharp in the sunlight.”
Rachel Carson has her say several times as well. What could be better than a collection of lush Maine lake photos and words of wisdom from great writers on a rainy day in Belgrade? The library is also air conditioned.
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