When you drive over the bridge into Maine from NH, you come upon a large blue sign that reads, “Welcome to Maine! The Way Life Should Be.”  When I was a little kid, I would start counting out loud at a specific point before the bridge and would stop just as our car passed under the sign.  That’s when I knew we were officially on vacation.  We had arrived.  It’s one of those quirky childhood rituals that’s stuck with me over the years.  I even find myself silently doing it now out of habit.  “The way life should be.” Every year during our week long vacation tradition to Wells Beach Maine, that is exactly how I feel.   This is the life.

One benefit of waiting so long to sift through my vacation photos is that I don’t have to wait a whole year to go back.  Summer is right around the corner!  Here are some of my favorite snaps from last summer’s week at Wells Maine.  Part 2 will be coming soon.  Now only if I had a Barnacle Billy’s Rum Punch in my hand right about now…. 🙂

Speaking of vacation photos, my good friend Jaye from The Life in Your Years Photography has some really great tips she wrote for an article here.  Perfect timing with school getting out soon.  Clearly I could stand to work on #4. Check it out!

If you would like to book a family session during this year’s vacation week in Wells.  I have a very limited number of spaces available the week of Aug 3-7.

Kami Friday is a Wells Beach Maine photographer, located in Southern NH.  Kami specializes in family, child, baby, newborn, maternity and senior portraits throughout New England.