This second post is mostly about the Colby College Art Museum.  An enormous family donation has turned it into the largest art museum in Maine, and also one of the most valuable collections. Here are some samples.

Richard Estes
Columbus Circle at Night (2010)

Richard Estes
Mt. Katahdin, Maine (2001)

Claes Oldenburg
Typewriter Eraser (1977)

Thomas Moran
Acoma (1902)

Paul Klee
Agricultural Experimental Plan for Late Fall (1922)

Edwin Lord Weeks
The Silk Merchants (Indian Bazaar) (1885

Rockwell Kent
Headlands and Sea (1910

Virgil Williams
View of Mt. Katahdin from the West Bank of the Penobscot River (1870)

Duane Hanson
Old Man Playing Solitaire (1973)

oops, I am sorry, this is
Duane Hanson
Old Man Playing Solitaire (1973)
(The previous photo is of Bill Humm, husband to Barbara Wauchope)

Old lady playing....
No, no, no, this is
Susan Wauchope

And my favorite sister (well......)
Barbara Wauchope

My one bird shot of the trip

Red maple on the Colby College campus

After a long bout of no computer (crashed hard drive, transfers to the new lap top) I am finally back on line and ready to do more blogs. 
Susan and I had the most wonderful trip to Maine, mostly to visit the new museum at Colby College, and to meet up with my sister Barbara and husband Bill, and just to get away to see some fall foliage.  We had great success in every way, the museum was fantastic, the fall colors (in Maine, at least) were wonderful. and we had a great B&B to stay in with some great meals prepared just for us.
I am going to spread this over several blogs. beginning with the first two days.
We drove up on Monday, stopping at several state parks for me to practice, and to get a good walk in.
We had great weather the entire time.

Susan, getting in the mood for the weekend.

Our bed and breakfast, the Copper Heron, in Unity, ME.
Our hostess served up two evening meals, the first a Beef Bourginon, and the Second Steelhead Trout.
With the beef I had a bottle of Peo Cesare Barolo, saved for the occasion.

For our second day, we drove to Bucksport, and visited the historic Fort Knox  which is opposite the town. 
What a wonderful view, with the Kennebunk River like a mirror.

Early in the morning

The Kennebunk River

Fort Knox never fired a shot.  

All of the massive guns were melted down in WW!, and only two were left to give people in the future a chance to know  what the fort could have been capable of.

Early morning, second day, the lake at Unity.

Something about a fall day, beautiful, crisp, almost warm, a gift.
I drove to the Wellfleet Audubon Sanctuary and altho there was nothing new, it is still wonderful to see the marshes and ponds, the colors starting to change, and always the chance to do photography.
As soon as I arrived, a Kingfisher angrily chased another away from Goose Pond, and as I arrived, a gentlemen who passed me on the trail shortly before the blind, came back to tell me that there was a large flock of Greater Yellow Legs in the pond, and that he thought I should go into the blind and photograph them before he wandered ahead and scared them off. The kindness of strangers.  At any rate, nothing seemed to scare them off, they peeped and squawked and demanded to be photographed.
As I came back the Kingfisher showed off as well, and a female Hairy Woodpecker created a very resonant series of booms.
All in all, a wonderfull morning.

Flying over  me two minutes after I arrived (Kingfisher)

Even Poison Ivy gets a few moments of glory

The flock on Goose Pond (greater Yellow Legs)

Somehow I can't help myself, I love the color

and (groan) another

and yet (alas) another (if I were still using slide film, I wonder, would I still take
all of these images, so many of whom I have taken before?
Probably

On the way back, the Kingfisher insists being photographed

and, surprise, all by himself (giggle) the Solitary Sandpiper

about 30 yeards away from the flock of Yellow Legs

It must have been a very resonant tree, because the Hairy created
great percussive hammered sounds.