wandering around

After we returned from the weekend filled with wedding festivities, we came back up to Vermont, where we have unplugged Batman from the corporate machine for the week. Long overdue and well deserved.

Yesterday we went up and over the Rochester Gap for muffins for breakfast and then we drove up route 100, stopping at Moss Glen Falls.  It was tricky to get a good photo of the falls, but do check out the color and light in the water where the falls meet the sand bottomed pool.

 

Then we stopped at Yestermorrow, to check things out and pick up a brochure for their fall/winter classes. (Just thinking...) 

I also spent a few minutes out in their front field, where two signs read, "American military killed 1216 in Afganistan" and "American military killed 4413 in Iraq". Small white flags, set in neat rows, mark the numbers in a sobering and very real visual way. I wish more people could see this.

It was on to Moretown Common to see the ancestral home of one of the branches of Batman's family. The house needs a bit of TLC, but the cemetery is full of well preserved headstones. One was engraved with the phrase, "Passed to the Spirit World", while others told the story of ten siblings, four of whom died in infancy. Those were rugged times.

Before supper, Batman set the Adirondack chairs in just the right spot for watching the Perseid meteor showers. Alas, the sky was too overcast to see anything, but we will try again tonight. Have any of you seen them?
And look at the apples!

Where have you wandered lately? To the store, an exhibit, an adventure???