Mud Season & The Lay of The Land

After so much cold and snow this long winter, I am so looking forward to Spring - I think we forget that it brings the mud or we wouldn't be so happy about it. Now, the calendar may say that Spring arrived last week, however, the weatherman must not have received the memo!

We had a cold snap yesterday and temps were back down in the 20's with winds making it feel like it's in the teens - - this is some SPRING we are having!

Anyway, I'm in the process of listing several building lots with some really sweet common area water frontage in West Bath - Obviously, we were all fooled by a bit of warmer weather and thought it was time to do this. It was a little warmer today so I thought I'd go get some photos of the properties. Now, this is an area for nature lovers - - If you want paved roads, you should go somewhere else - - that's where the mud comes in - - my poor car.

But I have to tell you, if you are buying land, now is the time of year to go look at it and walk it - yes, you must WALK IT - - you need to find the survey pins and/or boundary markers. Bring boots, of course, because we still have a few inches of snow on the ground in the shady spots (yes, that includes the woods) but you can see the special features (rock outcroppings and stone walls) so much better right now without all the undergrowth and foliage that will come later in the spring. And with snow still covering the ground, the mud is confined to the roadways!

Walking around this beautiful place, I took more pictures than I normally would - I climbed to the top of one lot where there is a better elevated westerly water view than I would have imagined had I not taken the time to go up there - I could just picture the sunsets you could see from your deck up there. On another lot, I walked alongside the now frozen pond that is part of that parcel, imagining the sound of the "peepers" come summer. Another lot featured a beautiful rock outcropping that gives natural privacy from the road that runs behind it. I went down to the edge of the New Meadows River where they are going to put a dock in later this spring. One of the residents had stacked his lobster traps by the shore - - picturesque Maine. I made my job into a nature walk around the property and, at the same time, I got some really great marketing photos and a good sense of who might want to live here. All in all, a fine morning on the job.