AM I CRAZY … I THINK SO

SNOW SNOW SNOW … GO AWAY: WAITING FOR FLORIDA, THE LEXUS …

GO AHEAD AND LAUGH … 11 MORE DAYS … FLORIDA HERE WE COME:

ITS BEEN A WEEK … NO NINE DAYS:

WOW A WHOLE WEEK PLUS … WELL HERE WE GO, ANOTHER DAY IN BEAN TOWNE … THE DAY STARTS WITH MY USUAL PATH … SUBWAY TO QUINCY MARKET:

PAST FANEUIL HALL:

PAST OLD CITY HALL:

DOWN WASHINGTON STREET, ADMIRING THE DETAIL OF THE OLD ARCHITECTURE:

ONTO THE COMMONS VIEWING INTERESTING PEOPLE:

FEEDING THOSE BIRDS IS A TIRING JOB … MAKES ONE TIRED:

THE SQUIRELLS ARE SAYING “WHERES MINE”

FROM THE COMMONS, A VIEW OF BEACON STREET, IN A FUTURE BLOG WE WILL CHASE DOWN TOM BRADYS NEW DIGS:

THRU THE GARDENS AND ONTO ARLINGTON STREET:

DOWN THE “BRICK SIDEWALK”: TO NEWBURY STREET:

BOSTONS FINEST HEADING TO AN ART GALLERY:

LOOKS LIKE MY NEICE IS MARKETING HER BLOG:

A COUPLE OF MY FAVORATE COMMONWEALTH AVE TOWNE HOUSES:

ONTO TO THE GRANARY BURIAL GROUNDS, ON BOSTONS FREEDOM TRAIL, WHERE I HAVE KIN BURIED,(JOHN OTIS) ALONG WITH MANY OTHERS:

A FEW OTHER INHABITANTS:

A VIEW OF TREMONT STREET FROM THE REAR OF THE BURIAL GROUNDS:

AND FINALLY HEADING BACK UP TREMONT STREET WE HAVE A VIEW OF THE OLD CITY HALL:

AND BEFORE I HEAD TWO STORIES BELOW THE STREETS OF BOSTON, JUST LIKE CHARLIE, A VIEW OF THE OLD NORTH CHURCH “ONE IF BY LAND, 2 IF BY SEA”

IF I GET STUCK BENEITH THE STREETS OF BOSTON … DON’T FORGET THE SANDWICH … O NEVER MIND…..

UNK SAM

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THIRD TIME NEVER FAILS, OR SO THEY TELL ME:

ON SATURDAY WE HEADED NORTH, OR I GUESS IT WAS NORTHWEST, TO QUECHEE, VERMONT, FROM MARBLEHEAD, MA. TO DO SOME CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. STOP ONE TOOK US TO THE SIMONE PIERCE FACTORY-SHOWROOM, WHERE SOME OF THE WORLDS FINEST GLASS IS BLOWN: BTW THE TITLE IS DUE TO THE FACT I HAVE STARTED THIS VERMONT BLOG 3 TIMES, YES THATS 3 TIMES AND THE 1ST TWO TIMES I PUSHED A WRONG BUTTON AND ERACED ALL…UGH

SUSIE EXITING FROM THE CAR IN FRONT OF THE SIMONE PIERCE FACTORY SHOWROOM:

MAIN STREET, QUECHEE

SIMONE SIGNING HIS WORK:

SIMON SIGNING A BOWL MY SISTER SUSAN PURCHASED:

SAMMY MEETS SIMON, WE DID DISCUSS MY LATE DAD’S EMPLOYMENT WITH STUBEN GLASS,AS A DESIGNER. STUBEN ENGINEERS HAD A HAND IN HELPING SIMON SET UP THE GLASS BLOWING FACTORY…

THE FALLS BEHIND THE FACTORY THAT ACTUALLY PRODUCE THE POWER TO RUN THE FACTORY AND RESTAURANT:

A VIEW OF THE COVERED BRIDGE THAT LEADS INTO QUECHEE, TAKEN FROM A PLATFORM THAT LIES BETWEEN SIMON PIERCE AND A LOCAL REALITOR..

ONTO WOODSTOCK (VERMONT) A VIEW OF THE ART GALLERY, #1 VILLAGE ON THE GREEN…

F. W . GILLINGHAM AND SONS, WOODSTOCKS GENERAL STORE

THE VILLAGE GREEN, WOODSTOCKS MEETING PLACE:

ONE OF WOODSTOCKS COVERED BRIDGES:

THE FIREPLACE IN THE ENTERENCE OF THE FAMOUS WOODSTOCK INN:

THE FAMOUS WOODSTOCK INN, OWNED BY THE ROCKAFELLA FAMILY: NOTICE THE HORSE AND CARRIAGE:

THE DAY ENDED WITH A $5.00 PARKING ON “THE LEXUS” … I WISH BARNIE WOULD NOT DO THIS:

O WELL … TIME TO LEAVE MAYBERRY AND RETURN TO THE REAL WORLD…

A DAY FOR THE BIRDS:

AKA: TODAY I WENT BIRDING…

Yellow-crowned night-heron Nyctanassa violacea

Great blue heron Ardea herodias

Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea

Great egret Ardea alba

Snowy Egret Egretta thula

Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis

Wood Stork Mycteria americana

roseate spoonbill

Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps

Anhinga Anhinga anhinga

A SMALL TASTE OF “A DAY WITH THE BIRDS”

tomorrow another day of following the sun, blue skys, thongs, and a trip to the famous EVERGLADES:

A PRELUDE TO MY THANKSGIVING BLOG:

AS SEEN FROM THE SOUTH WEST SIDE OF THE SUNSHINE STATE:

A MEMBER OF “THE FAN CLUB“

NEW CONSTRUCTION, CAPTIVA ISLAND, ON OUR WAY TO THANKSGIVING DINNER:

DETAIL:

PALMS, BACKLIGHTING:

THE FOLLOWING FEW SHOTS ARE THE SUN SETTING INTO THE WESTERN HORIZON: CAPTIVA ISLAND, FLORIDA

I CALL THESE “RED SAILS IN THE SUNSET“

BYE – BYE

AND FINALLY . THE EVENING ENDED WITH FIREWORKS @ THE BEACH:

ANOTHER DAY IN THE LIFE OF SAM I AM