A business conference allowed me to visit Kennebunkport, Maine this past week. After a very rainy day, the next morning was clear and crisp.

This is part of Maine’s working waterfronts. There was little boat traffic, commercial or otherwise. The tide is out, the trees are steadily losing their leaves, the tourists are gone and, for any shops open, everything is on sale.

The first President Bush’s house is a mile or two down the drive to the north.

Looking out toward the mouth of the Kennebunk River; The Gulf of Maine is beyond