Portland’s skyline is a trick of scale. It delights the eye. Our skyscrapers seem lofty, but they’re still not too tall for seagulls to land atop the Time & Temperature building.

If you leave the Forest City for an extended time for a visit to Hong Kong or Manhattan (sorry about the World Series, guys) and then return, the skyscrapers on the peninsula of Maine’s largest city seem much, much smaller. To a Misstra Know-It-All, barely there.

Read the full story in the digital magazine above.