New Hampshire: Amazing Sites

Day Trip to the Maine Beaches

Morning Walk in New Hampshire

Where is the River???

 The River - Before

We awoke up this morning in wonderful Union NH to find that the river that was behind the house was now a trickling brook! That's not good. No fire protection for the town. What happened? Seems some state official opened the dam down stream. Laurie says the dams have been here for a couple hundreds years she thinks. The mills, that used the water power for running their machinery, are no longer in operation. But the the reservoir of water, needed for the town, is gone.
I'm sure that the towns people will solve the problem some how. But to be at a place and see a possible change happen. more to follow...

 The River - After

Gramma's Poetry

Things I Love ~ Poems from the Maine Woods

~ by Eva Bonney Ridlon

One of my latest projects: Publishing my Gramma's poetry.

The books have turned out to be fabulous gifts for family members
I haven't been able to see for all these years.

Another Great Day in New Hampshire

Another wonderful day. Our cousin Patty and her mom Phyllis drove down to visit and have lunch with us. I had not seen Patty since we were kids, so catching up was great! The gorgeous guy in the middle is the adorable Aaron, Sister Sue's grandson, who she gets to have here on Tuesdays, her day off.
What's really cool is that Patty and I both have sons named Aaron and Sue has a grandson Aaron! (Mine was first!)

The Covered Bridge

The Durgin Bridge in Sandwich, New Hampshire was first built in 1820. The sign tells us that the first three bridges here were destroyed by "freshets." Turns out a freshet is a "sudden rise in the level of a stream, or a flood, caused by heavy rains or the rapid melting of snow and ice." The bridge was named for James Holmes Durgin, who ran a nearby grist mill and drove stage from Sandwich to Farmington and was a link in the underground slave railroad from Sandwich to Conway. Remember ever seeing it, Linda?

Morning, Glory!

sunday stuff...

 Sunday morning...
If all goes well we will have pictures of a covered bridge. The weather is cool but nice. A good day for a walk. (I'm hoping to find an ATM machine somewhere along the way.)
to be continued...
The artist

The Mushroom

Walking Around

Believe it or not...

this is what a walk around the neighborhood looks like at my sister's! Actually these were all taken from her yard.

Walks Thru a New Hampshire Village

Whoops! Time for Clams Again!

Day Trip to Maine

Trip to Maine to meet our long-lost cousin Bob Bonney, who we had never known existed. Sue & I had been wanting to meet Bob, who has done an incredible amount of genealogical research on our family back to the Mayflower and beyond!  Snooky and Gene came with us and we made it into a nice drive up the the Fryeburg Fair Grounds where Bob and his wife Laurali are camping out with a few hundred Good Sam people. We ended up talking for over 3 hours and exchanging family information and memories. Pretty cool day!

Having a good time...

As you can see, if you scroll back a few days, that we are enjoying our visit in New Hampshire. Today we are enjoying seeing our Great Nephew  Aaron. I even shared my blueberry muffin with Aaron this morning. We are now great friends.
The Artist

Spagetti Dinner at Sue's

Gail & Tony meet Sue & Snooky and we all enjoy Laurie's spaghetti dinner!

We Made it to New Hampshire!

Here we are in New Hampshire! It's beautiful, cool bracing air. It's great seeing my sister. And Gail is here, too! She and Tony are "camping" in their beautiful new RV down at Milton Three Ponds! I am so happy to finally be here.

Finally - Today's the Day!

Laurie writes: Today we will finally make it to New England! I wanted to visit my sister in May and it didn't work out, but now I will finally get to visit with my sister. And as a bonus, as things work out, my best friend Gail (from Florida) is motor homing in the area and I'll get to see her, too. I realize that there are those who are confused, but to me it's perfectly logical to travel from Costa Rica to Peru via Houston, Texas, Jacksonville and Orlando, Florida, Portland, Maine, Union, New Hampshire, Baltimore, Maryland, Orlando, Houston, finally arriving in Lima. Will post more later, hopefully after I've had my fixed of fried clams with bellies!

Need a Compass ...

 (from Orlando, FL)
If we are going further South...why are we flying North to Maine today? I know that if we keep going North we will eventually be going South again. What ever. This is too difficult to think about at 6:50 am.
We might as well visit with Laurie's sister Sue and Snooky while in Maine/NH. It should be nice up there this time of the year.
The Artist