KCT Thought of the Week, February 10, 2012

"Many children, perhaps because they themselves are small and closer to the ground than we, notice and delight in the small and inconspicuous.  With this beginning, it is easy to share with them the beauties we usually miss because we look too hastily, seeing the whole and not its parts."  Rachel Carson  "The Sense of Wonder"  "A Place Called Maine"

 Today at the KCT

Kennebunkport Consolidated School’s kindergarten class learn about birds:  Photo by Tom Bradbury

KCT Thought of the Week, February 3, 2012

“If Green Island is an emerald, and Bass Island a pearl, Folly an opal, Pinkham a garnet, and Goat Island, the one with the lighthouse, a lodestone, then Cape is the diamond.  It is the outermost and the highest; it is also many-faceted.  As you walk its perimeter the rock changes from grey to black to white to pink to tan.  At one end there are coves with the roundest storm-rolled rocks on any of the islands.  Its tidal pools are the deepest and most colorful, its surprising inner meadow the most languid in sunshine, its long mane of dark fir trees the thickest and shadiest, its campsites—used all summer long by many young romantics and island-lovers—the most secluded.”  Sandy Brook

 Sandy Brook was the owner and editor of the York County Coast Star.  In a 1979 act of faith, he loaned the Trust the initial $20,000 as we worked to purchase Cape Island.  He passed away last week at the age of 89.  We will miss him!

 A moose finds its way to Cape Island:  Photo be Eben Brook

KCT Thought of the Week, January 27, 2012

  "Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle ... a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to the light, a bud straining to unfurl.  And the anticipation nurtures our dream."  Barbara Winkler

 Ganny’s Garden, Waiting for Spring:  Photo by Robert Dennis 

KCT Thought of the Week, January 20, 2012

“There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow.  It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance.”   William Sharp

 Snow Cover on the Batson:  Photo by Tom Bradbury

KCT Thought of the Week, January 13, 2012

“A wet snow comes in the night and covers the ground and clings to the trees, making the whole world white.  For a while in the morning the world is perfect and beautiful.  You think you will never forget.”  Wendell Berry in “Hannah Coulter”

 Snow Blankets Cape Porpoise:  Photo by Robert Dennis