I had a delightful visit with my daughter this past weekend; just the two of us with a little time at the end spent with the grandbaby when she came home from a trip with her father.   Each visit reminds me of how time passes, and yet how important it is to enjoy the present […]
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Using the Byways: Photo of the Week
August 12th, 2009 · Comments Off on Using the Byways: Photo of the Week · photo of the week, travel
I love this photo I caught in Maine at the “Blast from the Past” diner. We were just passing by on our way to Sabbathday Lake and there was a Friday night car show. See what you miss when you use the byways instead of the highways?!
4 days, 4 museums, 4 inches of rain
August 6th, 2009 · Comments Off on 4 days, 4 museums, 4 inches of rain · Art, Site Seeing, travel
It’s taken me more than 4 days to get organized to get this posted! Last week, hubby and I enjoyed four museums in as many days (and I want you to know this isn’t a record as we’ve done this many in one day in Paris!). First we went over to Williamstown MA to see […]
Farewell dear Crossbearers
July 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Musings, Shaker, Site Seeing, travel
As my fellow Seminar attendees know, the title of a Shaker hymn from Hancock ca 1850 which we sang in farewell to one another ’til next we meet. Sunday morning brought two final presentations for this year’s seminar:Â Rob Emlen presented “Picturing a Shaker Village:Â How the public imagined the Shaker Landscape in 1835” and […]
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We make you freely welcome…
July 24th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Communal Societies, Musings, Shaker, Site Seeing, travel
Even the chipmunk and the bees welcomed us to Canterbury Shaker Village today for the third day of Shaker Seminar.  We had breakfast at the Great Stone Dwelling at Enfield Shaker Village, then drove to Canterbury where after a delightful lunch, we were split into groups and either explored on our own, toured an exhibit […]
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