When we have visited Vermont before, the road up to Mount Mansfield has always been closed, as soon as it starts to snow the gates at the bottom of the mountain are shut. Today however whilst we bask in 70 degrees, the road was open, so up we go!
The sights today.
Bit of a rest day today, so much to see and do that sometimes you just have to sit back and have a bit of a catch up.We are at The Kedron Valley Inn in southern Vermont, which is famous for it's Budweiser Advert.
Country Stores.
Nice things on our travels today.
Canterbury Shaker Museum.
Today was once more like a summers day, so we set off for the Canterbury shaker Museum in Canterbury New Hampshire New England USA.The houses and paint colours are amazing, and the whole place exudes calm and tranquility, sadly no shakers live there now and only four shakers exist in Maine.
Beacon Hill Boston
The first two pictures are of the Back Bay Hotel in Boston that used to be the local police station, it is also home to some rather nice sculptures.Mr B was more than happy today shopping in the 'Life is Good' store in Newbury Street Boston, even on a saturday Newbury Street is a calm wide paved beautiful place to stroll along and take in all the sights.
Boston Massachusetts USA
Things I am liking today.
Today I am liking these beautiful handbags designed by Tamara Fogle, they are so nice and sooooooo expensive. Aghhhhhhhh a person can dream!
Memory quilt no3
A few weeks ago I blogged about some memory quilts that I had made and I mentioned that I had one more to make. This quilt is for the youngest son of the family who sadly lost his dad to cancer, almost all of the material has come from the fathers clothes.
Autumn
My husbands birthday cake.
Some of you have asked for the recipe for my husbands tree birthday cake.Julie my friend made him this lovely tasty cake for his birthday, the tin it was made in is called a bundt tin which you can purchase from John lewis, it is quite expensive but the end result is very impressive, great for christmas coming up.
Daylesford Farmshop and Cafe, Gloucester.
Yesterday I mentioned Daylesford Organics as one of the places we visited on our birthday trip to Gloucester. Daylesford Farmshop and Cafe is near Kingham not far from The Old School B and B, to visit both places is a real treat.
A surprise birthday weekend.
My friend Julie, a brand new Mini and a barking dog called Lottie!
Let me introduce you to my friend Julie, we worked together many years ago and have remained friends, we have similar interests and have a bit of a passion going on for starting up a business, so if anyone out there has a spare barn in a good location and a money tree let us know please! She is also a fantastic cake maker and cook, more about that on monday.
Pumpkins
Firstly, I apologise for not sending out many blogs lately. I have been silly busy, and as some of you know I am self employed. Being self employed is a good thing but lunch hours, tea breaks and days off sick just don't exist, and if you are a bit of a maniac like me, occasionally you burn yourself out!
Memory quilts.
Graham Thomas
I have been appreciating roses in other peoples gardens over the last few days, they seem more special at this time of year, probably because I know that this is the last we will see of them until June 2013.This rose called Graham Thomas is a David Austin Rose, Graham Stuart Thomas OBE (3 April 1909 – 16 April 2003), was an English horticulturalist, artist, author, poet and garden designer.
Today's Smoothie
Two thing to do this weekend.
As we head into what I think are the four busiest months I think it's important to take more care of yourself. For some it's the back to school rush (thankfully for me those days are over), for others it's a time to clear up house and garden before the cold dark nights start to arrive, we rush around trying to pack the same into less daylight hours and generally wear ourselves out.
Last of the summer roses, and a bit of America.
I'm enjoying the last of my summer roses, these ones are called Heritage by David Austin. They have been very good this year, they flower twice, once at the begining of June and again at the end of August, I must have had about 300 blooms altogether, they obviously like lots of rain and not too much heat, which is exactly what our summer has consisted of this year, so I guess there is always a bright side to most things!