Ruby Tuesday

We vacationed in Maine. On one of the days, we took a drive to Freeport, Maine to do some shopping in the L.L. Bean store. Afterwords, we came here for a lobster dinner, that we had read about in one of our travel books.
Under the blue awning is where the people [...]

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Scenic Sunday-Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge

Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge
Bring your Binoculars!  Will I see turtles crossing the road?  I hope. I hope.  We took the 8 mile auto tour and stopped to climb the observation tower to view the magnificent  wildlife from one side and Atlantic City’s skyline from the other.  The self-guiding tour can be taken by auto, on foot [...]

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Dreams of summer sun and the beach

Amid pink plastic flamingos.
Dreaming of hot summer days sitting under a brightly colored umbrella with my toes in the sand whilst listening to  the sounds of the waves crashing and inhaling the  salty air.   One can pretend as if they are in   Florida.  Imagine.

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Hildene – The Lincoln Family Home

 
 
Our visit to The Lincoln Family Home called Hildene located in Manchester Vermont was both quite regal  and educational.
This was the summer home of Robert Todd Lincoln,  son of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, who lived here between 1905 and 1926.  
 
He got his idea for the design of the  formal gardens from a patterns in a stained [...]

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Beyond Pennsbury Manor- The farm animals

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The Delaware River and Pennsbury Manor

This photo of the view of the Delaware river from the upstairs sitting room is from the same location as my photo in a previous post. The previous post is located in “Back in Time, Pennsbury Manor in Morrisville, Pa.” In the photo, I am standing beside two rows of trees behing the [...]

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Watery Wednesday

We visited Maine in the summer of 2007 and drove to this point to see this lighthouse. It can be reached by boat.
Ai Miei amici Italiani:
Abbiamo visitato Maine en Estate 2006. Il faro puo essere raggiunto en barca.

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Back in Time, to Charter Day in Morrisville, PA

Yesterday, Charter Day was celebrated at Pennsbury Manor along the Delaware River, created by William Penn, the founder of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.
For me,  I found it to be a beautiful day to see all of the volunteers dressed in period costume and performing the trades that were needed to operate this settlement on its own.
There was a woodworker, [...]

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Princeton University in the snow

“Lady in Red”

Ruby Tuesday #1:
 
 
 

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Mummers January 1,2009

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