Look out your window today. If your view is not what you’d classify as "stunning", then I pity you. Because I’d call this morning gorgeous. It’s a clear day, the sun is rising through the effusion of breathtaking colors all around me, and I have to count myself among the blessed to be living here. No matter which window I choose to look out of my home right this moment, the beauty of autumn is boldly daring me to take lingering looks. The colors of the leaves on the trees and those decorating the ground are a vision of indescribable color palettes.

If you need a reminder of one of the many reasons we live on the coast of Maine, stand outside for a few minutes today. You can’t help but feel the biased awe of living among unrivaled superiority of place.

Melanie Hyatt is an editor at Maine Food & Lifestyle magazine.