Some More Laughs!

 

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Can you tell I'm trying to lose some weight?  Pandemic and election-angst eating is not good for me or you.  Here's what I'm doing and it's working.  Eliminating sugar and extra salt, limiting wine intake to one small glass a week, taking smaller portions and half portions of carbs, trying to exercise daily and keeping a journal of what I eat. I started this on Monday when I hit an all time high.  Down three pounds already.  I'll take all the encouragement and suggestions I can get!

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.