Bike ride yesterday, and early morning in Newmarket NH

Anne Conners who is on a bike ride from Seattle to Baltimore has inspired me to get on my bike and go around my neighborhood. Anne your bike adventures are inspiring and exciting.(http://www.c2cride.org/2010/)

Well this is looking out into Great Bay, NH.




Kinda cold this morning had to turn on the fireplace and the steam coming off the river.

August 12, already !!!

Lots going on lately. Had our bathroom ceiling painted and all the rugs cleaned.
After putting everything back Tricia rearranged the dining room and kitchen area i kinda like what she did.



All we do is barbacue

.....which results in this happy face



Tricia and i went out to the Isle of Shoals which is a group of small islands about 9 miles off the coast of NH.
oh we went with Joe Donovan and Tom Bomba.



2 Lady Patricias


Here's a picture of the captain and the boat

This is the bridge either going up or coming down as we were either leaving or coming in or out of Portsmouth.The Memorial Bridge is a through truss lift bridge that carries U.S. 1 across the Piscataqua River between Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Badger's Island in Kittery, Maine USA.


Here's a picture of downtown Portsmouth. the blue house in the middle of the picture is the The Moffatt-Ladd House it was the home of General William Whipple, one of New Hampshire's three signers of the Declaration of Independence and his wife Katharine Moffatt Whipple.



Fort Constitution. it's used as a Coast Guard facility now. Very interesting Revolutionary story with Paul Revere playing a part.



on the way out of Portsmouth we pass the The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard


There's a nuclear sub in the next 2 pictures if you can see it. SSN 723 Oklahoma City



That building is where The Treaty of Portsmouth of 1905 was signed. It's still the Naval shipyard.


The old boarded up Naval Prison. it's not used today


A lobster boat, there were a lots of them as we left Portsmouth

Whaleback light house.


Here's the hotel at Star Island. it's mostly used for a religious and educational conference center with close ties to the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ.


Tricia on the back porch looking towards the mainland.


Tricia took this picture with the comment "this is so "New England""


Here's pictures of the community of houses, church, and paths around the island.




A path on the little island

star Island hotel and group of houses


inside the Unitarian Church



Tricia like the yellow moss on the houses.

Mostly the Caswells that's the family that must of lived here long time ago.


Looking back from the deck to the Boat that took us to Star Island