Our second Historic New England stop was Otis House, which sits right at the foot of Beacon Hill, in Boston. What I didn’t know about Beacon Hill was that it was once one of three mountains in this part of Boston. The other two were taken apart for fill, and Beacon Hill itself had about […]
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It being so hot, we ended the day in the air conditioning, and checked out the Peabody Essex Museum, which has a very eclectic collection ranging from local maritime art to the art of the Far East. (The roots of the museum are the East India Marine Company, founded by local ship captains.) It’s
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We joined Historic New England last year (our gateway being Hamilton House). We’ve worked our way through several Maine and New Hampshire properties, and decided to take advantage of a friend’s cookout in the Boston area to add a few Massachusetts properties to the list. The first was Beauport, which ended up being
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I was recently bemoaning the lack of photos on my blog – January is entirely books and knitting up until now. But, it is is winter in New England. It’s not that I don’t go anywhere in the winter – it’s usually just things more like last weekend, where we went down
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If you look at a map, Grafton Notch State Park is right next to the very top of New Hampshire, which is the skinniest part of that state. Since our friend and the BF had met when she was an exchange student at his high school in Vermont, and she hadn’t managed
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We had a friend visiting for the last two weekends (hence the sudden photo dump now that she’s gone), so we were out and about doing a few different things we’d never done before. One was the Conway Scenic Railroad, out of Conway, New Hampshire, up in the White Mountains. We took the Notch
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In which there are critters, and it’s apparently mushroom season…
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I’ve started a new blog over here, to try and utilize all of the plant pictures I’ve been taking since I first got a digital camera. Not to mention, researching and writing things up fills a happy little place in my soul. I’m aiming to post something new every week. We’ll see how it
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This post really belongs in March, but said road trip involved a Monday and Tuesday off, and my track record for posting during the week isn’t great, hence why it ended up in April… After the Winter That Would Not End ™, we really needed to get the heck out of Dodge. BF’s brother
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