Beautiful, Jim...nice get for your friend, well done.
I have a love/hate relationship with Maryland. The summers here (and I know I am complaining to someone who lives in Florida) suck. I sweat like a glass of iced tea in the sun so from June to September it is two/three t-shirts a day working on the farm.
Get through hurricane season and then 8 months of love me some Maryland - winter included.
Fall sunsets rule.