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Going home…

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If the only reason to visit my friend in New Hampshire had been to see her hummingbirds then I could have turned around and gone home after the first day. The hummingbirds put on quite a show that day, visiting the feeder which was just outside the kitchen window. They were so tiny, seemingly smaller than the ones in my Florida backyard. And to see them from just 5 or 6 feet away, as opposed to across my backyard even though the yard isn’t all that deep, was amazing. But the reconnection to an old friend who is more like family was the real reason for the visit. The hummingbirds were a bonus.

I have a million pictures, how can I choose just a couple?
The little female was just as photogenic.
I told the Bird Buddy not to show me photos of doves, or that would be all I ever saw. But it still shows me doves, it just calls them goldfinches.
I couldn’t wait to get my photos into my computer where I could use some of the new tools in Lightroom and Photoshop to do things like get rid of the traffic signs in this photo.
Another one of the photos I wanted to see in the computer.

We did go out and visit quite a few places, and spent time with both of my friend’s daughters who treated us royally. And we signed up for watercolor classes so we had fun playing with our new paints, etc. But mostly we talked, and talked, and talked some more. It seems as if we picked up the conversation from the day before, even if we hadn’t been together since February, and the visit is too short no matter how long it is. Visiting a friend from your earliest days is always like going home again. It makes me happy.

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Wanderings…

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Timing is everything. The perfect weather for Friday’s visit to the raptor center in VT was the first warm and sunny day that we have had for my visit. It was iffy for the trip to Saint Gauden’s National Historic site on Saturday, but that turned out okay too. I took pictures with my phone, and pictures with my camera, and they aren’t organized the way they would be if I’d been adding them to the computer. So here’s a sampling. I’ve been taking hummingbird pictures too, or attempting to, but he is an elusive little critter.

This is as you enter the grounds of Saint Gauden’s. It’s a good thing we got there when we did because as we were leaving a wedding party was arriving. There was no prep going on at the venue, and the grounds are open all year but the buildings aren’t open until the end of May. I think this was a DIY wedding, I think it was going to be fun for them and the weather was trying to improve.
Definitely not in Florida anymore.
There were lots of sculptures on the grounds. This depicts General Shaw who led a group of buffalo soldiers. It was said that those soldiers, only a fraction of whom had been slaves, had the most to lose and the most to gain by enlisting to serve their county.
Beautiful presentation for this statue.
This photo is from the observation tower that was WAY up high at the VIN center in VT. I think if I’d had to go up one more step I wouldn’t have made it.
Would you let your kids run about on that mesh in the center of this platform? I might have let mine, but I was young and foolish when my kids were little. I’d never have let the grandkids do it. Older and wiser, or just more of a chicken.