Mud season in Maine.
Unlike an area that is pretty much the same constant type of weather scenery year round, Maine weather is highly varied. You have your standard four seasons flavors and then some hybrid transition twist of two periods.
There is the extended summer in Maine where early fall leaf color bloom and it's 'hole 'nother experience.
Not quite standard Maine summer weather with warm days, cooler nights and early mornings. Then here comes fall.
Mother Nature gives you plenty of time to prepare for the change of seasons.
The shift is gradual and everyone living in Maine is prepared for the next season before it arrives.
Get your firewood, next year's renewable fuel supply cut, seasoned, stacked and ready to burn.
Stocking the root cellar time with the bounty of your rich fertile farm to table garden. Enjoy four wheeling trails, hunting trips for game birds, black bear, white tail deer and moose.
In Maine, we're outdoors all year long. Just dressed a little different to match the recreation or employment engage in enjoying "Vacationland".
We experience all the seasons "uptah camp in Maine".
Before spring, we are eye-balling seed catalogs, getting equipment and tools ready to til the soil, work the seed beds to be ready to plant. To not waste a drop of daylight.
The stored canned preserves start to get low just about the right time for new produce to replace it.
The local know your farmer produce buyer or bread maker is all part of the small local Maine community living experience. We barter a lot of what we need with what we grow or can offer for a goods, providing a service in small town Maine simple living.
We all go up over the garage or haul out of the shed our canoes and kayaks. Studying the state wide spring list of Maine river races to enter.
Like I said, Mainers are outdoors every day of the year enjoying the fresh air, clean water, the wildlife, taking in Nature.
Mud season in Maine.
It's ice out and no more pond hockey or fishing five holes drilled in a Maine lake. Maple trees are full of running sap to tap and boil down into amber sweetness. Frost heaves and pot holes the size of a car show up right on time or unexpectedly.
Song birds flying back and two legged snow birds driving back from the sunny south. Winter is hanging on, spring is coming but we are one in in between both season in affectionately dubbed "mud season".
Ever heard the I love mud song?
How long Maine's mud season lasts depends on the snow fall amount and frost in the ground.
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There is a lot to like about the state of Maine.
Low cost Maine real estate, 4th lowest crime state, no traffic.
She's drop dead naturally gorgeous and unspoiled woods, water, scenery. In the top ten top states people relocating, moving to Maine pick for a slew of reasons.
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I'm Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Real Estate Broker
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