1 Catching up with friends over a shared lunch was such a pleasure. We had a delicious salad from their garden and beautiful little filo pastry parcels filled with home grown spinach and kale with feta and we took Foccacia warm from the oven.
2 Dessert was homemade chocolates which were amazing.
Handmade chocolates
3 The beautifully gentle Kaia led us on a walk to see the pond.
By the pond
1 My very good blogging friend, Marilyn, has sent me a present of some Christmas clings, something we don’t have in the UK. I liked the look of her Hallowe’en clings and she sent me some delightful ones for Christmas. The Grandchildren are going to love decorating for Christmas! Thank you!
Thank you, Marilyn
2 I bought this beautiful plate in New Hampshire.
Cherish the simple things
3 Needing biscuits this afternoon, I was delighted to find this cookie sausage in the fridge!
Ready to slice and bake
Here are the cookies. They didn’t last long!
Lemon Cookies
May the sun
bring you new energy by day,
may the moon
softly restore you by night,
may the rain
wash away your worries,
may the breeze
blow new strength into your being
may you walk gently through the world
and know its beauty all the days of your life.
Sunflower and bee in the garden of the Church on the corner of Arlington Street, Boston
Beautiful raindrops
I love the warm colours of Autumn.
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1 We had a short walk today to clear our heads after yesterday’s day of travel, (left Boston for the airport at 16.00 18th October arriving at our door 17.50 19th Oct) and went by our town’s small amphitheatre, the Plain-an-Gwarry, which had been freshly mown.
Plain-An-Gwarry, Redruth, Cornwall
2 There’s just one Japanese Anemone left in the garden.
Last Japanese Anemone
3 We have our own touch of Autumn colour as our Cornus Variegata turns pink and a deeper red.
Cornus Controversa Variegata
The hue of me? I’m blues and greens – seas and skies, leaves and fields……. and fabrics and beads….
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1 As the aeroplane flew towards the dawn we caught just one shot through the tiny window.
Dawn over the Atlantic
2 That was followed by seeing the most beautiful full moon.
Full moon from the plane
3 And now we are home after our brilliant adventures around New England! Seeing Truro Cathedral from the train always meant that I was almost home and my Mum and Dad would always be at the station ready to take me, not home but to the sea, usually at Perranporth so that we could walk on the sands together, hear the waves and catch up on each other’s lives over the last term… Lovely memories!
Truro Cathedral from the train
A last sunny walk from Arlington Street, down Boylston to The Top of the Hub restaurant, 52 floors up The Prudential building with amazing views over Boston to have our last American lunch, to Barnes and Noble, such a brilliant bookshop (and where the lovely Mr S spotted Michael Gove – not one of our beautiful things!) then back up Newbury to our hotel by Boston Common and pick up the luggage ready to fly home overnight, catch the train from Paddington and home…….
Last night we found a fabulous show, The Million Dollar Quartet, a musical about the serendipitous day when Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis all turned up at Sun records studios and played together! The music was brilliant and the atmosphere, electric! Because of our age we got our tickets for $27 each instead of $124 each and the programme was free!
This morning we took the underground, the T, to the Museum of Fine Arts and had another day of soaking up all sorts of art. I’ll devote a whole post to this day on our return. The exhibitions ranged from Hippie Chic to John Singer Sargent to The Birds and Words of Audubon, art of the Americas and a very special photographic exhibition done by women from Iran.
And on our last night, a note to all the lovely Bostonians who have helped us get around and who have not let the horrors of six months ago dampen their spirit.
They say that Boston is a walkable city and we have walked for hours discovering the fascinating Boston African American History Museum having followed the Black History Trail around the Beacon Hill area. I learned about the feisty Sojourner Truth and her amazing speech delivered at the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention in Ohio. You may have to click to enlarge the photo to read it.
The buildings around Beacon Hill are beautiful. I loved the beautifully kept doors and porches.
We walked the Freedom Trail too finding The Old State House, Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market where we had Corn Chowder in a Bread Roll for lunch
Back to our hotel through the park, red leaves and the delightful Make Way for Ducklings sculpture.
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