The Wandering Tattler

Don and Carol arrived in Keene Wednesday afternoon in their black pickup. Thursday they drove to Boston and visited the JFK Memorial Library and walked around the oldest part of Boston on The Freedom Trail. Friday I joined them in climbing Mount Monadnock, our local landmark. Monadnock, in the town of Jaffrey about 8 miles from Keene, is eponymous for an entire class of erosion-resistant bedrock mounts standing in isolation above a more deeply eroded hilly plain. Saturday Lynn and I took Don and Carol out on kayaks on Silver Lake in nearby Harrisville and afterwards drove them around that historic old village. We were joined by our neighbors Alice and Gil Fuld for dinner; afterwards we viewed pictures of the Fuld's recent trip to France and of our adventure in Australia and New Zealand. This (Sunday) morning, after a Father's Day breakfast of cold cereal, Don and Carol left for Niagara Falls, NY, about 7 hours to the west of us. We enjoyed their visit and made sure they left with plenty of clean laundry!

The first two pictures show the NH countryside as viewed from the flanks of Monadnock; the third image, of course, is the one I emailed a couple of days ago. The first picture of the paddlers was taken at the end of Silver Lake during our lunch break; the next shot shows our view across the lake to Monadnock.

Click on the thumbnals for large images. Someday I'll upload some more pictures of Australia and New Zealand.