Kutztown PA – Thursday

Margaret is off exploring the local area – on her own. I elected to stay home and take care of some maintenance chores; nothing critical: washed the windshield / front to get rid of the bugs and grime; glued some cabinet doors that tend to come apart during the rough roads; and other miscellaneous tasks.

Carolyn wrote me a nice note thanking me for the blogs. As I told her, preparing these are a lot of fun when we’re not overloaded with busy-ness. One of the hardest things is picking out the photos to include. And while Margaret is out wandering, I thought I’d catch up on a couple of shots I really liked but were “left on the cutting room floor”.

The first and second photos are from Columbia, PA. As a small, once booming town, now on the wrong side of the growth curve, it presented a wonderful palette of photo ops. I’m sorry now we didn’t spend the day there, just prowling with cameras.

The first is the first red, white, and blue hydrant we’ve come across. Not a spectacular photo, just interesting.

The second is of a once prosperous manufacturing plant, right down town. Now a derelict with ivy claiming the walls and broken windows.

While we were in Seattle last month (just last month?), an article came out about the benefits of eating celery to help brain functions and memory specifically. While we were in the Lancaster Central Market Tuesday, what should we find but a seller of celery – nothing else, just celery! I’m sorry to report we didn’t stock up; but we should have.

More tomorrow when Margaret reports on her adventures – alone in Pennsylvania!