Hidden in the photograph is race to beat the locals heading out to their boats for the morning journey into the Atlantic as they awake the harbor waters and disrupt the evening stillness. However, they will return with the best lobsters in the world.
This is the Sturgeon Moon high above Muscongus Harbor in Bremen, Maine in August 2019
A gulls comes in for landing. Her, the other gulls and I appear to be the only ones awake until the faint sound of the rumbling engines of the fishing boats are heard in the distant as they move toward the mouth of the bay to begin the day's journey into the Atlantic.