I think I will do some like totally random slide shows from my old pics this summer on weekends - if only for my own and for my family's amusement. "Show and Tell." It's tough to have ideas on summer weekends. I love to go places - both the old and familiar, and the new and astonishing. Anywhere is interesting to me. "Go Go Hi Ho!" as my friend says. That's the spirit.
Woodstock, VT:
More fun pics below the fold -
The Appennines, in Umbria, last month. We hiked until blisters - and through blisters - through town and country:
Our hotel in Stresa, a couple of years ago. As I recall, our lad hopped up from his job in Rome to visit us there. I was sitting, reading on our porch overlooking Lago Maggiore when he loped up from the train station to the entry with his backpack.
Gwynnie's pic of Hooded Mergansers, last winter, on Long Island Sound:
Some of Mrs. BD's rare Hostas, this week:
Cruising the Danube, last summer:
Stephensplatz, Vienna, last summer. The main stop on the subway, from my experience, and we learned the Vienna subways quickly. We ran into some dear friends and neighbors at the Opera there, by pure chance. Talk about a double-take. Similar thing almost happened to us two years ago with different friends in Palma: Saw them at home in Sept. and found out they were in Palma when we were. They were house hunting. (Mallorca is very pleasant indeed although Cape Cod is good enough for me. Lovely Mallorca is full of Brits and elegant, insouciant Spanish women, with very long legs, who do not notice your existence.)
A place where we like to stay on Cape Cod:
Gwynnie composing a photo in Wellfleet, MA:
Some of my fine buddies, grouse and woodcock hunting not too far from Rangeley in Maine, on lunch break:
