We decided to get in both a little nature walk and be artsy fartsy yesterday, so we tripped on down to Andres Forest of huh?
Huh? you say. Well the Andres part is
Andres institute of Art and the art part, or at least some of it gets to libe out it's existence on the grounds of Big Bear mountain in Brookline NH. We did not see everything there but it was fun, even if the trail markings were a tad on teh vague side ( we ended up a 1/2 mile away from the parking lot!coming back from the cell tower on top of Big Bear!)
Park entrance
Decision table
Quarry chimes
Linda thought it ironic
Boat ( this was tagged along with some poetic philosophy paralleling life to being on a boat )
Phoenix
Howling
Bones of the Earth
As stated we messed up coming down , and ended up on a side street ( Mason Rd) walking back to the lot. This was not without it's own rewards though as I got a nice short of Brooklines very pretty but non historic walking path covered bridge
We were not the only one walking, this gent was taking advantage of the early morning coolness to give his Honda Shadow it's daily exercise
Cool little barn on the side of a road in the Mason area
Since we were just meandering anyway we decided to meander over the border into VT and take the Molly Stark byway to Bennington, so there is a NH tie in here.. if you didn't know this is the route taken in 1777 by General John Stark9 NH hero natch ) and a group of very brave, very hardy men to engage the British in Bennington. Take a spin down this forty mile route from Brattleboro to Bennington and imagine you were a soilder walking a mire filled horse trail on your way to war.. that was this road!
We got into Bennington a tad late to just lollygag, and the lighting was not great at the monument, I may redo this later this year. But we did score some covered bridges for our efforts..
I was this close ( actually I was several days too early ) to putting the famed Curtis BBQ pit to the test, but they don't open until THURSDAY!
Great day which ended with a nice meal at Country Spirit in Henniker. Let me close with my own bit of artsy fartsy.. I titled this
WINK OF AN EYE
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