One of the reasons why I was hurrying down Old County Road this afternoon was to get to Port Clyde to catch a boat. The other reason was because I was passing the Rockland landfill, a strikingly odiferous zone. That strange stretch of road also features several creepy limestone quarries filled with opaque dark water (that more than one car has ended up in), a few houses whose residents hopefully have no sense of smell, some ATV trail crossings, and all that's left of what must once have been several farmhouses: well-spaced clumps of lilac bushes, honeysuckles, purple phlox, and big patches of day lilies that once graced some long-gone dooryards. One patch of lilies so abounded with big orange blooms that if it hadn't been for the smell, I might have even paused to take a photo.
Near the smelly dump,
explosion of day lilies.
This was once a farm.
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I think this dump is a real shame. the quarries are an interesting part of midcoast history and I often wanted to stop there in Rockland, but ....
ReplyDeleteI just can't imagine what it's like to live anywhere along that stretch of Old County Rd.--and it's such an interesting one, as you say.
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