Posted in Highways and Byways, Places, tagged Deerfield on November 27, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Coming back from getting the newspaper this morning I came upon the marsh with frost. This is over on Parade Road.
I have taken pictures of this marsh before, usually in the Spring after it has been beaten down during the long winter, and as things are coming back to life.
It looked interesting to me this morning, beiges, white and silver. There is beauty at anytime of the year. You just have to look for it.
Posted in Places, tagged Artichokes, Booth Bay, Maine on September 7, 2009| Leave a Comment »
We recently went up Booth Bay, Maine’s destination spot: Coastal Botanical Gardens of Maine. Simply a beautiful spot to wander, and one of those places that one could go back to several times a year to view the changes of Nature.
I must be dumb, as I always thought Artichokes were a “California Thing,” but here they were in this lovely spot.
They are definitely part of the thistle family, less the needles.
Posted in Places, tagged Deerfield NH on October 27, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Spent a few hours yesterday in the delightful Fall weather enjoying Deeerfield’s 5th Annual Arts Tour. It is worth the take…put it on your calendar for late October, 2009.
Posted in Places, Thoughts, tagged nh, Rye on October 22, 2008| Leave a Comment »
I decided to go up the coast between Hampton Beach and Portsmouth today.
It was a very gray raw windy October day and back in Deerfield everything is dead from the heavy frosts we’ve recently had…and today was nothing but the preamble to Winter.
Low and behold, this scene literally popped out at me…I had to turn the car around, go back and photograph it, as it was such bright spot…in such a gray day….look at the color and contrast of these Cosmos and their background.
Sometimes it’s nice to be…”on the Road.” This moment made my day.
Posted in Places, tagged Deerfield, Freese on October 12, 2008| Leave a Comment »
I decided to go down to the river behind the house this morning. The light looked good from the back yard, but when Reese and I got down on the river…it was bland. The best color was found in the river…I am always amazed at how clear the water is.
Posted in Places, tagged Add new tag, Henniker NH on August 8, 2008| Leave a Comment »
As I was making a sales call yesterday I came upon this employee lunch room at Skip McKean’s Petroleum Transport company located over in Henniker, New Hampshire. I’ve made a lot of sales calls in my career and I have been at a lot of maintenance garages, but I have never seen this.
The building was a typical industrial Butler steel building, on the outside, but when I got inside it was this. What a shock. It said an awful lot about the company I think. Clean trucks, spic n span garage, and nice people.
Posted in Places, Thoughts on August 4, 2008| Leave a Comment »
I had to go to the University of New Hampshire today to meet with a contact in the purchasing department. The purchasing department is truly understated at this institute of higher education.
When one gets to their address, one doesn’t find a sign amongst a half dozen or so, that says “Purchasing.” The only sign that one sees at the bottom of the steps leading to the front door is “Psychology Lab.”
All I could thing of was, “Am I at the right place?” “Is this some sort of experiment?” After all, I’m a sales rep, all I wanted to do was sell something. Was I going to have to recline on a couch?
Oh yes, they are there….when one gets inside and looks at the modest directory, it simply states, “Purchasing in Foyer.” I guess we know their priorities.
Posted in Breakfast, Places on August 3, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Living in Deerfield, Raymond is one of those towns that I drive through constantly. I use their Main Street to cut from Route 107 over to Rte 102 so I can move to the South or get onto Rte 101 to go East. Watch your speed…the limit is 30 MPH and they mean it.
It is one of the joys to get off the main routes, and to take the “peaceful” routes through the centers of New England towns. Raymond is no different, as I was going through today to get over to Epping to pick up my wife from her weekend in Maine…I noticed how the light was hitting the day lilies in the town’s center.
Oh, by the way…if you want a great breakfast go to Raymond’s Long Branch restaurant for breakfast…it’s great. It’s right down from the down center.
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