Interesting weather we’re having. We arrived at our friend, Alice Rigdon’s place late Friday afternoon. She has a beautiful home out in the country, near Purcellville, Virginia. With windows on all sides of her house that sits on a rise, weather watching is wonderful. We saw a heron and a fox by her pond, as [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
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Friday, October 24, 2008
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The Gettysburg National Military Park is an impressive place. We started out in the visitor’s center, watching a short film, and were herded into the cyclorama room, a 360-degree space, surrounded by Phillippoteaux’s incredible painting of the Battle of Gettysburg. We can walk around, looking, as the narration describes the battle and lighting highlights relevant [...]
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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We had a pleasant couple of days, heading into the Berkshire Hills in Massachusetts. The road was quite pretty and we discovered Shelburne Falls, a small town that attracts tourists by converting an unused small bridge into a flower garden. It’s lovely. They also apparently diverted the river from its natural course so people could [...]
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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Hiking is beginning to wear us out. We intersperse a day of hiking with a day of mostly driving. On Saturday, we drove along the Kancamagus Highway, a beautiful stretch of 32 miles that goes by waterfalls, gorges and spectacular mountain and valley views. Of course, we were driving on it on the busiest weekend [...]
Friday, October 10, 2008
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Tuesday turned out a little nicer. We went to Grafton Notch (mountain passes are called notches in New England) and did a really tough 2.1 mile hike. The brochure states: “Allow two to three hours to hike the Eyebrow Loop Trail” (it took us about 5 hours). The brochure states: “…the trail rises gently until [...]
Monday, October 6, 2008
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Today, we had the most sun we’ve had for the past 4 days. That constituted about 2 hours over the 6 hours we were out. It’s very disappointing. The light has not been that great and the colors are very muted. Photographically, it’s completely different from our first two trips to New England, where the [...]
Thursday, October 2, 2008
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After a very rainy Saturday, we had a visit from campground personnel on Sunday, telling us we might want to move from the bluff overlooking Frenchman Bay to a more protected spot. We did so and waited for the hurricane. What happened? Bupkess! (How do you spell that, anyway?) Torrents of rain didn’t fall. The [...]
