This past week I have been on a Most Excellent Adventure - the perfect 'Warm Welcome' to Fall...
It started in Alexandria Bay (1,000 Islands, NY) - climaxed by an evening at BOLDT CASTLE (see photos in previous post!!)
From A-bay we ventured through the Adirondacks, across Vermont and into NH. A few antique shops were visited along the way, and we netted a 'new-to-me' Royal Haeger souvenir!! This olive peacock (center), was captured and now roosts proudly among two of my other peacocks!! My first of yet another glaze - the exact shade of hazy olive-green that predominates our Fall foliage right now as we eagerly await the vibrant crimsons and ambers of the new season!!
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Our Destination: Concord, NH (DH does part-time photography for a NASCAR magazine, and this weekend the race was in NH!). It was my first visit to Concord, and it quickly became a favorite! It is the perfect blend of 'tree huggers', 'right brainers' , 'middle class' and 'suits' - in other words 'broad', but not to any one extreme! Does that make any sense?
Full of inspiration to reawaken my creativity with the new season...
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... A stain glass shop to rekindle my spark for soldering.jpg)
...an antique mall filled with interesting ideas (hmmm... a button flower bouquet could be fun in a piece of Haeger!!)
...a bead shop with LOTS of eye candy!.jpg)
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...and even a store window display validating my 'plarn' creations!!
Saturday while DH was at the races, I got a paper, some maps and set my course for adventure!! Time for a walk....jpg)
Beautiful morning! Enroute I stumbled onto a Farmer's market, and an Arts festival. LOTS of sales happening. Nothing 'earth-shattering', but loads of fun and everyone I met was very friendly! Small metal shelf, sterling necklace, Scarves, hankies, Dennison Poker chips, vintage packets of beads, garlands, grapevine wreath, a Serta Sheep (my first!), and a couple of sweaters (it was COLD, and I wasn't prepared...). Good thing that I was limiting myself to the amount I could comfortably carry (DH had our vehicle at the races)!! Okay, so I did stop back to the hotel room midway to unload... All-in-all a MOST enjoyable 6++ mile siteseeing walk!!
6 comments:
I had NO IDEA that was Boldt Castle - it has really been fixed up from its former dilapidated state. I used to live in NH and spent a lot of time in Concord, where one of my best friends lived. It's a wonderful city - just the right size.
What fun! Please post pix when your leaves turn color--we don't really "get" Fall so far South and it's still hot and humid down here. We just go from green to brown, no in-between reds and golds.
Boldt Castle looks like a wonderful place to visit. You lucky duck! Sounds like you had a great weekend - good score for you on the peacock vase!
Heart Island! I wanna go to Heart Island!! Sounds like you had lots of fun. Tell me you didn't drag Mr. STUFF through the bead store? And I can't believe I've never seen one of those peacocks, and you have three! All in all, lots of great treasures that were worth the 6 mile walk!
I would have been right there with you on that 6-mile walk! :-) What a fabulous idea to grab the local paper and pound the pavement...I love that idea!!
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
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