When we entered Vermont we stopped at the Visitor Center and were met with a host of beautiful flowers growing around the building.  I could not pass up the opportunity to take pictures of the gorgeous flora and fauna surrounding us.  Here are just a few of the pictures that we took there.

As we drove around the countryside I looked for evidence of the changing seasons.  But, alas, we were too early for that.  So I bought postcards with the pictures and had to let my imagination run wild as I looked at the greenery around me trying to picture what it would look like when the seasons changed.  So here are just a few pictures of the scenery so you can imagine along with me.

We had a wonderful surprise when we stopped at Quechee Gorge in Vermont.  We walked across the bridge and were amazed that the river was so far beneath us.  The water was channeled into a very narrow gorge with great power.  Such a beautiful sight even if it made a person a little nervous about being up so high above the ground.  I won’t say who it was, but it wasn’t me!  LOL

Strawberry Banke Musuem – Plymouth, New Hampshire

This was like going back in time to the colonial days and the 1800’s.  There were so many buildings with the period furnishings as well.  They even had demonstrations of how things were done during that period.  The people doing the demonstrations were dressed in the clothing of that period of time.  Even the people working on the gardens were dressed appropriately for the time of that particular type of garden.

We missed a lot of the demonstrations because they were already over for the day.  However, we did make it to one on cooking.  The lady there took time to discuss how things were done and even showed us things she had cooked and canned.  We talked about my experience cooking on a wood stove as well as some of the old artifacts that we had used growing up.  See the pictures of the wood stoves, the old pressure cooker, and old toaster.  These were all things that my mom used when I was a child.  I even learned how to cook on a wood stove.  Then when I was married and moved to WA we once lived in a home with a combination electric and wood stove.  I was thankful for my experience as a child and teenager cooking on one to fall back on.

 

My parents used a lot of the old things that I saw on this farm.  The store was like going back to times I went shopping with my mom.  They had a lot of the same things in the store museum that my mom bought.  Brought back so much nostalgia for some of those things.  I learned how to iron on the old flat-iron that you put on the stove to heat it up.  I also learned how to sew on a treadle sewing machine.   See the picture of the lawn with the crochet set?  That is what we played with company when I was a child.  So it was like going back in history, but not just our country’s history, but my own as well.  It was an interesting experience for me.

Hope you enjoyed my journey through the past.  Let me know if you recognized some of the things from your past as well.  Next stop on this journey is Bar Harbor, Maine.

May the Lord bless you all till we meet again.