2025: The Magic of Summer in Maine
Summer arrives, the summer of 2025 and — like magic — the hills are canvased in green, open waters ripple with the breezes, flowers bloom not unlike rainbows, and, in times of quiet, the songs and cries and messages of birds resonate everywhere.
Topping the list of iconic summer sounds is the call of the loon, that majestic summer resident who arrives from coastal wintering — like magic — each spring the day after the ice leaves a lake.
The eerie, haunting message of the loon harkens back millions of years — loons are one of the most ancient bird families — and reassures us today that for this season at least the lakes are still clear enough for diving and fishing underwater.
Clear lakes are the attraction for people, too, for the many who travel here, summer here, live here and use the lakes here and who all can have the privileged experience of standing on a shore or dock and looking down through clear water to the bottom of a lake — like magic.
For decades, dozens of lake dwellers and those who live in the area and those hired to protect and preserve these beautiful central Maine lakes have formed a brigade of determination, of industry, of trial and error and, in many cases, of success in maintaining a lake’s clarity.
And the reward? Wherever there is the possibility of boating and swimming, children and grandchildren and all children peel out of their clothes and pull on swim suits (adults do, too) and whoop and holler (adults not so much) as they splash into the water and have the best day ever — like magic.
Summer will end, hopefully in a brilliant slow-motion sunset, and when it does there’s magic in the memories, in the possibility of being in the coldest of winters or furthest of places and seeing a billowing cloud or hearing a bird sing or smelling a piney scent and being transported back to summer in Maine — like magic.
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