Whew.............NYC this last weekend

We went to a Wedding celebration of very dear friends (Carolyn Conners and her groom Tan Akhtar) in Garden City New York, this last weekend. We drove down Saturday morning and stayed on Long Island.
This is Tan and Carolyn

This is the wedding couple and his parents.

Here's another blissful couple.

Sunday morning we got up and took the Long Island Railroad from Carle Place into NYC.
We got off at Penn station and just started walking everywhere. The 1st landmark we saw was Madison Square Garden.

It was very hot and muggy. We were headed uptown and i saw the ESB and i had to walk to it.


Oh...i got a part time job at FedEx "Office" in Portsmouth NH hence the photo this was also very near ESB.

The Library wasn't open yet so we kept on walking.

Around Times SQ. .................

.......We took a couple of side trips to visit some "old stomping" grounds.
Tricia in front of the Algonquin. More to follow about the Algonquin.

Tricia at the Millennium.

We keep walking uptown via 5TH AVE. thank God it was Sunday. This was the diamond district and Tricia's bobble would have to wait till next time we were there on a week day.

As we moved uptown; i'll let you figure out the landmarks. Keep in mind we were still walking up 5th.





Around 61st i think at the "Park"; Tricia was getting tired so we sat and she called her Dad on Father's Day......

Sam wanted to go downtown to see the sights so we jump on the red "1" and took it all the way down to South Ferry.

We both wanted to see "Lady Liberty"; so we took The Staten Island ferry over and back. Note a couple of things by this time it was a God send to be on the water .....it was a lot cooler. 2nd how lucky were we that we got the "Guy Molinari".




When we got back i had to go to the Frances Tavern i was sorry it was closed but it was Sunday. i am so very very fond of the "financial" district. There such a sense of the human spirit, history, America and capitalism. i just love it!!!




St Paul's Cathedral

This used to be the tallest building before the ESB....you guess !!!

Around City Hall .............

We were getting tired and hungry so we jumped on a cross town around Canal Street and went to _________- Tricia and i have created some very fond memories. Here's a hint we also had a round table.




Time was slipping away from us because we had to catch the train back to "Longg-Ga-island".
this was hurrying to Penn station.

We just made the 2nd to last train. Whewwww.......What a night

Monday morning got up early we drove out to the end of Long Island, Orient Point NY and took ferry to New London Conn.
we just made the 11:00 of course we were the last ones and they let us on.

and we lucked out very cool and foggy we had been so hot on Sunday.

This was coming into New London .

We know that the following is The Cape Henlopen Ferry which was built as a World War II landing craft (LST 510) and participated in the D-day invasion at Normandy.

June 2 , 2008

We went down to North Hampton and bought an air conditioner. We stopped and walked along the beach before we got there.

Memorial Day

We took an early walk in the morning along Rye beach.


Trica liked this poem we found on a rock where we were walking.

We stopped at Joe's for subs and picked up a few groceries.

Came home and played the banjo for a good part of the afternoon till Tricia asked me to stop.

This is down at the dock looking towards the falls. Oh it's pretty warm today i still might jump in the river even though the river still pretty cold.

Memorial Day Weekend

We went down to Boston on Saturday to get a suit for me cause we're going to a wedding reception in Garden City, New York. We drove down to Revere and took the "T" into Boston.

Boston was very busy probably because of the holiday weekend. We got off at State Street and walked across Boston Common to Newbury Street. Sam got his suit at Brooks Brothers on Newbury.

We then went to the North end. Here'a a shot of Fanueil Hall.

This is inside Fanueil Hall (i'm currently reading John Adams by David McCullough hence the picture of the bust)

We cut over to the "North End" for a bite to eat. The house on the left is Paul Revere's old house.

Here's a shot of Sam and Tricia 22 1/2 years later; where they got married.


The old North Church

Tricia talking to her Dad infront of the Old North Church.

We went to the Regina for pizza.

On Sunday morning Tricia took me for a walk around our place to show me a water falls she found.
This is a cemetery near us that dogs are not allowed so we walk the peremeter around it rather than cut through.

This is down to the falls she found. it's actually kinda cool, nice and quite.

What a difference a day makes

This was yesterday and the river was low but it was raining.

Today and the suns out and the river is high i'm sure cause of the last 2 rainy days.

Looked at Mars, some nebulae, and a galaxy or two.

Last night was a great clear night, a little cold though; i went out to the UNH observatory. It was actually fun talking to the professor or the guy in charge who was a lot younger than any professor i ever have had. It wasn't crowded either.

The Birthday Girl, White Mountains, and the Lakes

The Birthday Girl with the time out kid(Pam).

This is on the way to Conway and the white Mountains around Milton NH.

We really didn't get lost but we had to turn around on this dirt road around Center Ossippe.

The Birthday Girl, luke and Lake Winnipesaukee.

Oh. i'm sort of interested in this Lake Northwood. It's very close to where we live now.

Wadleigh Falls, lunch at Wild Willy's, over to Wells and Ogunquit Maine

Wadleigh Falls road is a back road that goes north west from our place; we decided to go out for a hamburger at Wild Willy's. Good hamburgers and great haddock .
Saw a couple of fishermen at the falls.

This is Wadleigh falls.

Here's a campsite on the way to Wild Willy's (Tricia thinks it's terrible); and it's not far from our place!!!


Good Burger

Downtown Ogunquit

Heron Point Sanctuary; Sunday afternoon

Tricia, luke and i took a walk over to Heron Point. This sanctuary is not far from our home. we cross the falls and cut through the mill.

i just noticed this date the other day ; see if you can tell how old it is. (Jefferson and Adams were still alive).

This is looking back at the falls and the mill from the other side.

2 locals

This is at the end of the Lamprey river that really is part of the the Great Bay that goes out to the Atlantic. We have been really blessed to have stumbled onto a place we are so fond of.

Friday April 18, 2008; Walk along Rye NH beach