... & through the woods

Happy Thanksgiving!

Over the river...

Took the back roads on my way to my family's house for Thanksgiving dinner today. The fog was so beautiful, that I couldn't resist stopping to take a couple of shots on the way...

Dusted!

This morning, just in time to kick off the holiday season, we got a light dusting of snow! It won't likely last until tomorrow, but things are very pretty outside at the moment...

One man's trash...

What a great find! I was in Vermont over the weekend, visiting friends who hosted a fantastic Halloween costume party... Earlier that day--while out scavenging for a hubcap to augment an Isadora Duncan costume--I was treated to a walk through the woods to an old, overgrown junkyard. There were at least 6 very old wrecked-up cars just peacefully rotting away out there, amongst other miscellaneous parts. While my friend searched for her hubcap, I managed to get quite a few interesting shots.

Local color.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

~Albert Camus

Modern love.

Yesterday, I took a walk around the Phillips Exeter Academy campus with some friends, and was struck by the architecture of the George H. Love Gymnasium. Completed in 1970, it is a stark, yet beautiful contrast to the more traditional ivy-covered buildings that surround it.

Later, I searched online for more information, but could only find that it "covers an area of 220,000 square feet and includes two indoor hockey rinks, an eight-lane indoor swimming pool, exercise and weight rooms, a 130 x 200-foot gym large enough for three simultaneous basketball games, as well as training, conference, and office facilities. "

I am very curious as to how this building came to be. If anyone knows more about it, or at least who designed it, please feel free to comment or email using the links provided here!

Apples to apples.

In keeping with the Fall Harvest theme, here's a shot from a recent trip to Applecrest Orchards in Hampton, NH. Applecrest is the oldest and largest apple orchard in the Seacoast (the first tree was planted in 1913). They currently produce about 40,000 bushels of over 40 different varieties of apples each year.

Visiting Applecrest for their annual Harvest Festival (now 33 years running) has become an annual event for my friends and I. The festival offers something for everyone, with a world-famous corn roast, fresh cider & cider donuts, pie eating contests, pick-your-own apples and pumpkins, live bluegrass bands, horse-drawn orchard hayrides and a petting zoo for the kids.

This is a fantastic way to spend one of our beautifully crisp, sunny, fall New England days!