Beautiful bouquets at North Sandwich Farmer's Market

Bob's baguettes, personally delivered by Vespa if you don't catch Bob at the North Sandwich Farmer's Market.

Sitting pretty!

Some of the 'gear' covered in rime.

Everything is covered in wind rime in the morning before the sun melts it. It crashes of some of the equipment, so you need to watch your step. At the top of Mt Washington, they have recorded the worst weather in the world - coldest temperatures, strongest winds and so on.

Mount Washington

Trestle supports for the cog railway

The Cornish-Windsor covered bridge is the longest covered bridge in New Hampshire, spanning the Connecticut River. It was the longest still standing in the whole USA until 2008 when the Smolen-Gulf Bridge in Ohio was opened. It is 137m long.

An Italian-style veranda outside St. Gaudens' private studio at the Cornish commune.

St Gaudens made this bas relief of Robert Louis Stevenson which is Stevenson's memorial in St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh. The quotation is:

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere.
Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind.
Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Bless us, if it maybe, in all our endeavours.
If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come
that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation,
Temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune,
and, down to the gates of death,
loyal and loving to one another.

(This is St Gaudens' plaster model of the memorial)

Augustus St Gaudens bas relief of his friends children - Frieda (8) and Mortimer (7) Schiff with their pet Irish wolfhound.
St Gaudens - 1.3.1848 - 3.8.1907

Here is his wiki page

Golden reflection in the formal pond in Augustus St Gaudens' garden

A golden spouting turtle, in Augustus St Gaudens' garden, Cornish, New Hampshire.

Fancy labels at Strawberry Banke.
Would love to see labels for the 'Octopus Agave', 'Cowardly Lion Begonia' or 'Alligator Coleus'; but not the various 'Spider plants'.

Exotic orchids in a Victorian terrarium

I wonder if 'dolly' would count as one of the precious items to save in a fire.

Fire buckets.
In the old town, volunteers had water buckets to hand and ran with them to the fire to join a human chain from the fire pond - there were several around the town -  to the location of the fire. The owner of the house would pre-designate a friend to help save as much of the contents as possible, dashing into the burning building to rescue the most valuable pieces, as the water gang poured water onto the fire in the hope of saving the dwelling.

Red window - closed for renovation

Cartwheels and windows - well just one of each!