This was my second visit to Old Orchard Beach; I’d been there in mid-September when it was starting to shut down for the season. I was happy to get to go back again last month: it was foggy and quiet and lonesome.

Context clues help me imagine what July must be like here. And because I know myself pretty well, I know I like it better this way.

Old Orchard Beach, Maine
photographed 3.16.2026