The Blank Page of the Road -- The Muellers Blog

We're getting ready to go on the road again! We'll be playing two sets down at the Boxcar Pinion next week. If you're in the vicinity of Chattanooga and want some entertainment, I strongly advise you to come on over and check us out. The band will be debuting a bunch of new songs; some of the highlights include a very intense rendition of "Lost John" that Laurah and Sarah sing, a Curt-Laurah-Tom cover of Norman Blake's song "Ginseng Sullivan", and a new gospel song that I wrote over the winter, entitled "What a Glorious Day."

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Hiking has always been an interest of mine, and the unexpectedly sudden spell of warm dry weather has finally forced me outside. For lack of more content, here's a little panorama that I took during my last outing to Mount Desert Island here in Maine. Apologies for the dodgy Photoshop job--I didn't bring a tripod that day, and didn't bother to fine tune the exposure for good balance.

This panorama (not 360°, unfortunately) shows the view from the long western slope of Champlain Mountain.

The two peaks near the cirque lake are The Beehive and Gorham (Gorham is, of course, where i took the previous panorama.

The lake itself is called The Bowl. It's technically a beaver pond--there are two major dams on the west side--but it also appears to be a glacial rock formation as well. (A cirque is a bowl-shaped depression scooped out of the rock by glaciers.) You can see the beaver lodges in the middle of the lake, towards the right.

Moving right, you can see the village of Seal Harbor (there's a nice coffee shop there, as well as some sort of little maritime museum that my friend Tom and I checked out last summer during his visit from New Jersey), and the road running up the valley is rt. 3, which runs from Seal Harbor to Bar Harbor in the northeast.

The long ridge on the other side of the road runs several miles from Blackwoods to the top of Cadillac Mountain, which, at 1530' elev., is the highest summit on the entire east coast of the United States. There's a trail that follows the ridge all the way to the top, but I haven't hiked it yet--hopefully I'll get around to it someday soon!

--Tom