painting by Jessica Ives

Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

– Henry David Thoreau

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207 Paintings post everyish Tuesday around 5:30am EST on both The Maine and jessicaleeives.com. Save thirty percent on any 4×4 inch oil on panel painting by making your purchase within the first week of its posting. Instead of $300 pay just $207, a number which just happens to be the Maine state area code.

Tuesday 207 Paintings are exclusive to The Maine. They depict the land, the light and the people that make this state a state of wonder. Jessica is editor of The Maine and writes occasionally as The Outsider.

video by Jim Dugan

photo by Linda Zeigler

painting by Jessica Ives

My challenge to you here, is to journey into a deeper intimacy with the world
and your life without any promise of safety or guarantee of reward
beyond the intrinsic value of full participation.

– Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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207 Paintings post everyish Tuesday around 5:30am EST on both The Maine and jessicaleeives.com. Save thirty percent on any 4×4 inch oil on panel painting by making your purchase within the first week of its posting. Instead of $300 pay just $207, a number which just happens to be the Maine state area code.

Tuesday 207 Paintings are exclusive to The Maine. They depict the land, the light and the people that make this state a state of wonder. Jessica is editor of The Maine and writes occasionally as The Outsider.

photo by Polly Saltonstall

While we sleep upstairs, the potatoes in the cold cellar are quietly growing, reaching, reaching, first they will get the juice on the second shelf, then the apple sauce on the top shelf, and who knows what those spindly tentacles will grab next. ‪

#‎monstersinthecoldcellar‬ ‪#‎lastyearspotatoes‬‪
#‎timetothrowtheminthecompost‬ ‪#‎newonesinthegarden‬

painting by Jessica Ives

There is no such thing as the perfect cast.
There are only casts that catch fish and casts that do not.

– Kirk Deeter in The Little Red Book Of Fly Fishing

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207 Paintings post everyish Tuesday around 5:30am EST on both The Maine and jessicaleeives.com. Save thirty percent on any 4×4 inch oil on panel painting by making your purchase within the first week of its posting. Instead of $300 pay just $207, a number which just happens to be the Maine state area code.

Tuesday 207 Paintings are exclusive to The Maine. They depict the land, the light and the people that make this state a state of wonder. Jessica is editor of The Maine and writes occasionally as The Outsider.

photo by Jim Dugan

I was out for a sunrise walk in Rockland. The water was glassy, reflecting just the right mixture of clouds and sky. Then a lobster boat went by, throwing up a perfect wake. As I was photographing, a cormorant (locally called “shag”) surfaced.

display by Jo Ellen Designs

My Maine mermaid and fish coin purses!