There are surprises on every page of this book, just as there are surprises around any bend of a Maine coastal road. Joe's photos capture momentary beauty in places that are forgotten or hiding in plain sight. An abandoned canal in Castine is not on a traveler's standard itinerary. Neither is South Addison, Merrymeeting Bay, or the Scarborough Marsh. Even places that are familiar to many—West Quoddy Head, Old Orchard Beach, Monhegan Island, Pemaquid Point, and others—are revealed here in ways not seen before. And Ken is the ideal tour guide for Joe's photos, explaining why the shade on a Castine street casts a strange, nostalgic feeling; which end is the front and which the back of a house built between Main Street and the harbor; how to enumerate the services provided by a salt marsh; why the lobstering isn't better in upper Blue Hill Bay; why sea air makes us hungry.