What's Blooming Here

 Despite all our rain the flowers still bloom.  I took these photos last week and though there are some new blooms since then, there's more rain keeping me inside.

Enjoy!

Remember this unidentified plant above?  It's starting to bloom below.

And the pansies are still blooming in mid-July!

Just Watched

 this video about the Vermont Flooding.

Thought you might like to see it.

LINK HERE

Book Recommendation

 Have you read anything by Jojo Moyes?  

I just finished "Someone Else's Shoes".

An excellent read of mixed up gym bags that leads to different and life changing experiences.

It's the 54th book read this year.

Now to update my Books Read 2023 list.  You can access it below.

Bellows Falls, VT

 We had read in a book about NH that Bellows Falls on the eastern edge of Vermont on the Connecticut River is where you can see two ancient continents coming together. NH's geology was from one continent and VT's from another, though now I can find nothing on the internet about this.

Anyway, Sunday last we set off to explore and have lunch in Bellows Falls.  The map said there was a welcome center but it wasn't opened.  We did manage to find the gorge and the bridge that is closed from VT to NH.

Here's the bridge looking towards NH.

Looking back towards Bellows Falls.

Can you see the train junk yard in NH below?

Under the bridge is the gorge.  That's an old railroad bridge at the top of the photo.

To us the rocks on the right (above) and left (below) that are in NH look different than the VT side rocks.

There are supposed to be petroglyphs here.  We didn't see them.

Here's a photo from the internet.  And here's more information about them HERE.

From the bridge we went to find a place for lunch and settled on a local pub.

A lovely old spot with friendly staff and good beer and food.

From there we walked the business district, reading the historical markers,

stopping for dessert and coffee at  the Flat Iron Exchange.

Then it was time to head home because skies were getting darker.  Just enough time to grab a shot of a remade fire station and a mural.

In our car with raindrops falling we explored the old warehouse district now a park and someone was creative with these old window spaces.

A nice get away afternoon and back home before the rain started where we live.