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Towle Tompkins
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Retired broadcaster, avid photographer, living the Maine life. #Maine #MaineCoast #Travel #Nature #Wildlife
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 21h
October 30: Thursday greetings from Southern Maine. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social Ready for Halloween in Cape Elizabeth, Maine A honey bee enclave at Blue Point Preserve: Scarborough, Maine
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 1d
October 29: Wednesday greetings from Southern Maine. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Deer in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social An artist captures the Maine coast at Kettle Cove State Park: Cape Elizabeth A meet-and-greet on Higgins Beach: Scarborough, Maine
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 2d
October 28: Tuesday greetings from Maine on the 139th birthday of the Statue of Liberty. Fun Fact: The dismantled statue arrived from France in 200 packing crates and took more than a year to assemble. "Brilliant!" said the founder of IKEA. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 3d
October 27: Monday greetings from Southern Maine. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Maine's Scarborough Marsh Scarborough, Maine Pine Point: Scarborough, Maine Saco Bay: Saco, Maine
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 4d
October 26: Sunday greetings from Southern Maine on National Pumpkin Day. So, you might want to carve out some time to celebrate. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
On National Pumpkin Day, some of our favorite photos of pumpkins in Maine Maine's Scarborough Marsh Old Orchard Beach, Maine Kennebunkport, Maine
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 5d
October 25: Saturday greetings from Southern Maine. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Reid State Park: Georgetown, Maine Five Islands: Georgetown, Maine A mid-1800s cemetery in Biddeford, Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social Birds in Southern Maine: A great egret, a semipalmated plover, and a Canada goose
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 6d
October 24: Friday greetings from autumnal Southern Maine. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Nubble Lighthouse: Cape Neddick: York, Maine Ice Pond: Reid State Park: Georgetown, Maine Five Islands: Georgetown, Maine Biddeford, Maine
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 7d
October 23: Thursday greetings from Southern Maine on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Johnny Carson. A favorite:
As the "psychic" Carnac the Magnificent: "Answer: Sis boom bah. Question: What sound does an exploding sheep make?"
With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Cormorants in Maine's Scarborough Marsh Georgetown, Maine Raymond Pond: Raymond, Maine Maine's Scarborough Marsh. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 8d
October 22: Wednesday greetings from Kennebunkport, Maine. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Goat Island Lighthouse: Kennebunkport, Maine Kennebunk River: Kennebunkport, Maine Kennebunk River: Kennebunkport, Maine South Congregational Church: Kennebunk River: Kennebunkport, Maine
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 9d
October 21: Tuesday greetings from Southern Maine. Can you believe it's only five months until spring? With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Early-morning deer in Maine's Scarborough Marsh Seguin Island Light Station in Phippsburg & Ram Island Lighthouse in East Boothbay, Maine Portland Observatory: Portland, Maine Five Islands: Georgetown, Maine
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 10d
October 20: Monday greetings from Southern Maine on the 17th annual Information Overload Day. And that's all we're going to say about that. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Geese over Saco Bay with the Wood Island Lighthouse in the background: Biddeford, Maine Saco Bay: Biddeford, Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social Babb's Covered Bridge: Presumpscot River: Gorham/Windham, Maine Fortunes Rocks Beach: Biddeford, Maine
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 11d
October 19: Sunday greetings from Georgetown, Maine. Fun Fact: On this date in 1985, the first Blockbuster video-rental store opened. During Blockbuster's 30-year run, its most-rented VHS tape: "The Lion King." Its least-rewound VHS tape: "Jane Fonda's Workout." With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Ice Pond: Reid State Park: Georgetown, Maine Kayakers on the Sheepscot River: Reid State Park: Georgetown, Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social Sheepscot River: Reid State Park: Georgetown, Maine Sharks are now in Maine waters: Reid State Park: Georgetown, Maine
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 12d
October 18: Saturday greetings from Five Islands in Georgetown, Maine - 50 miles northeast of Portland. Maine has more than 4,600 islands and five of those are Crocker, Douglas, Haskell, Little, and Oar Islands, which are visible from the Five Islands area. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Five Islands, Georgetown, Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social Five Islands, Georgetown, Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social Five Islands, Georgetown, Maine Five Islands, Georgetown, Maine
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 13d
October 17: Friday greetings from Southern Maine on Wear Something Gaudy Day. Just follow Teddy Roosevelt's famous advice: "Speak softly and wear something gaudy." With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Prouts Neck: Scarborough, Maine White-tailed deer: Cape Elizabeth, Maine Greater yellowlegs: Maine's Scarborough Marsh Maine's Scarborough Marsh
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 14d
October 16: Thursday greetings from Maine.

Today's Photos by @feliciakk57.bsky.social
1. Maine's Scarborough Marsh
2. A cormorant & a non-breeding adult semipalmated plover in Southern Maine
3. East Wilton, Maine
4. Astors in Maine's Scarborough Marsh
Maine's Scarborough Marsh. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social A cormorant & a non-breeding adult semipalmated plover in Southern Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social East Wilton, Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social Astors in Maine's Scarborough Marsh. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 15d
October 15: Midweek greetings from Southern Maine. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Maine's Scarborough Marsh. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social A clamdigger on the Nonesuch River: Scarborough, Maine Maine's Scarborough Marsh Maine's Scarborough Marsh. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 16d
October 14: Tuesday greetings from Southern Maine on National Dessert Day. Or, as doctors call it, Death by Chocolate Day. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Scarborough, Maine Randall Orchards Farm Stand: Standish, Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social Great blue heron: Maine's Scarborough Marsh Stage Island Harbor: Cape Porpoise: Kennebunkport, Maine
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 17d
October 13: Monday greetings from Southern Maine. Today is singer-songwriter Paul SImon's 84th birthday, which is why all of today's photos were taken by me and Julio on Kodachrome film. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Long Pond: Saco, Maine Maine wildlife: a whitetailed buck in Cape Elizabeth & bald eagles in Scarborough Memorial Cemetery: Scarborough, Maine Bikers on the Eastern Trail through Maine's Scarborough Marsh
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 18d
October 12: Sunday greetings from Southern Maine on National Farmers Day, which honors a profession that began 12,000 years ago. Back when Really Old MacDonald had a farm. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Bethel, Maine Portland Head Light: Cape Elizabeth, Maine Cape Elizabeth, Maine On National Farmers Day, some vintage Maine farm tractors
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 19d
October 11: Saturday greetings from Southern Maine. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Maine's Scarborough Marsh Nonesuch River: Scarborough, Maine Randall Orchards: Standish, Maine Second-year bald eagle: Scarborough, Maine
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 20d
October 10: Friday greetings from Southern Maine on Curaçao Day, the anniversary of the Caribbean island becoming a nation within the Dutch Kingdom. Among Curaçao's charms is its pastel-colored architecture, as seen in Photo #4, taken by Towle in 2006. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Scarborough, Maine Cape Porpoise Harbor: Kennebunkport, Maine 250 feet above Fortunes Rocks: Biddeford, Maine On Curaçao Day, a 2006 photo of the pastel-colored architecture in the capital, Willemstad
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 21d
October 9: Thursday greetings from Southern Maine. On this date in 1992, in Peekskill, NY, Michelle Knapp's Chevy Malibu was hit by a meteorite from the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars. Unfortunately, the meteorite had homed in on the Chevy's OnStar signal. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Scarborough, Maine fall foliage Randall Orchards: Standish, Maine Stage Island Harbor: Cape Porpoise: Kennebunkport, Maine Spa day for a crow: Scarborough, Maine
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 22d
October 8: Midweek greetings from Southern Maine. Fun Fact: On this date in 1945, Raytheon Manufacturing filed a patent for the microwave oven, and now 90 percent of homes have a microwave oven - all of which reek of burned coffee and popcorn. With @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Maine's Scarborough Marsh Cape Porpoise: Kennebunkport, Maine Etherington Pond / Fortunes Rocks Beach / Atlantic Ocean: Biddeford, Maine Maine's Scarborough Marsh
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 23d
October 7: Tuesday greetings from Southern Maine. WIth @feliciakk57.bsky.social
This morning's Harvest Moon setting over Scarborough, Maine Goat Island Lighthouse: Kennebunkport, Maine Cape Porpoise: Kennebunkport, Maine A loon in the Nonesuch River: Scarborough, Maine. Photo by @feliciakk57.bsky.social  
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Towle Tompkins @towletompkins.bsky.social · 24d
October 6: Monday greetings from Southern Maine. WIth @feliciakk57.bsky.social
Pre-sunrise this morning: Maine's Scarborough Marsh Pre-sunrise this morning: Maine's Scarborough Marsh This morning above Pine Point Road & Maine's Scarborough Marsh Loon: Nonesuch River: Scarborough, Maine
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