Road Color

 

Two different days, two different states.

Photos through the car windshield.

Vermont on Sunday September 27th.

Saturday October 3rd.

A backroad in Cornish, NH after viewing sheep dog trials.

My camera is just not capturing what I see.  I guess the cloud cover doesn't help anything.

Plymouth Notch, Vermont

 This town in Vermont has its place in history as the boyhood home of President Calvin Coolidge.  He was vacationing here when President Harding died and Coolidge as Vice President had to be sworn in as President.  That happened in the middle of the night and his father who was a notary public did the swearing in ceremony. 

Coolidge is the only President born on the 4th of July.  Apparently there's a tradition that flowers are placed on Presidents' graves on their birthdays with full military honors.

Below is his mother's home.  She died when Coolidge was only 12.

The church was built in 1840.

Coolidge's one room school stood on this site but was replaced with this one in 1890.  He graduated from 8th grade in 1885.

Coolidge moved to this house when he was four.

We had a very knowledgeable guide.  He couldn't take us through the house but we could walk through on our own social distancing from others.

Another president from Vermont is Chester Arthur but I understand his birthplace may be more difficult to find.  In New Hampshire the only president the state can lay claim to is Franklin Pierce.  We'll save that trip to his historic site for another time.

A Year Ago ...

... we were in Barcelona having arrived on Wednesday October 2nd and staying for two weeks.

We traveled there with friends and shared an apartment. Last night we zoomed with our friends over dinner to do some reminiscing.  How life has changed in one year. No long trips on airplanes are in our future at all at present.  Can't even think about planning such a trip until there's a vaccine.

Here are some photos I put together for a slide show to the Photography group at Vantage Point early last year.  I named it "Arches".

Enjoy a virtual trip to Barcelona.

 

New England Fall

 

Answers to some questions posed on other posts.

TahoeGirl asked why we had relocated to New Hampshire. 

Our oldest daughter has lived here and in Vermont since graduating from Dartmouth in 2003.  We kid her that she got the granite of NH in her brains when we first brought her on a visit to the state when she was two.  She and her husband who hails from GA have settled in to the way of life here.  Our two oldest granddaughters live here. 

Our second daughter was a world traveler and lived and worked in China after college.  She returned to MD, got a graduate degree from Georgetown, married and settled in MD not far from us.  When her husband completed his MBA he was recruited by a firm based in Buffalo and off they went in summer of 2019 with our youngest granddaughter.

That left us with neither daughter close by.  We realized our isolation from them when Covid hit and we lived in a retirement community that basically shut down to avoid infections. In April we made the decision to move from MD and weighed Buffalo v. New Hampshire and the latter won out.  Daughter in Buffalo fine with our decision not to settle in NY state near them.  

Two plus months after moving here in July we have no regrets.

TahoeGirl also asked if this area of NH is liberal.

Lots of Black Lives Matter signs, Biden/Harris signs out number the other one, the newspaper has more anti-tRump editorials than those favoring him, so yes to that question.

Margaret asked the difference between Vermont and New Hampshire.

The former has income taxes and the latter none. Vermont's population is less.  More services there and less in NH.  Both have Republican governors at present but heavily Democratic in Congress for both. Vermont seems to be more environmentally committed than NH.  That's my sense of it.