Saturday, April 18, 2009

Been awhile

It has been awhile since I have put anything in my blog so I thought it was about time I did. Barbara and I have been keeping ourselves busy with little trips, we have gone to Longwood Gardens and for Easter we went up to the Cuccio’s to meet the new baby and have a delicious dinner.
At Longwood we walked down the garden path that was full of hyacinths in bloom. Most of the tulips had not bloomed yet but a few where out. The hill on the way to the restaurant was alive with a carpet of small blue flowers; I do not know the name of them. The staff at Longwood is naturalizing many of the open spaces and this is part of that effort. When we went to lunch we had to wait for our turn to get our food but as always it was worth the wait. After lunch we went into the conservatory and heard a wonderful piano concert. The last piece he played was Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”. Before that I had only ever heard it performed by an orchestra, he played it brilliantly. When that was over we wondered around the green houses like we always do, Barbara enjoying the flowers and me taking pictures.
Easter was spent in Florida New York at the Cuccio’s house. Barbara and I where excited because we would be meeting the newest addition to their family, Makayla. Just a few months old and as pretty as a picture and the apple of her Grandpa’s eye.
Today Barbara and I setout to find Double Trouble State Park, a place we have been meaning to visit. Barbara had directions from the website and I had Hyacinth (our GPS). Well I decided to follow Hyacinth and she was only a little over a mile off on the entrance to the park. Hyacinth announced arriving at Double Trouble State Park, but there was noting there, at that point I thought “well dummy you should have used the directions from the web site”. In looking for a place to turn around we saw a sign that said the entrance was 1mile ahead (sometimes Hyacinth is off a little bit). There was suppose to be a story telling at 1PM but we could not find it so we just walked around a bit and yes I took some pictures. Double Trouble State Park is on the site of Double Trouble Cranberry Farm which up until the 1960’s was a major producer of cranberries. Since the state has taken it over it still grows some cranberries but not on the scale of when it was in full operation. They mostly use it for environmental education. After walking around for a bit (me taking a few pictures) we decided to see if the directions from the website would be any better. Well all we found by using those directions was a single lane dirt road with a sign that said you where entering a state park, not what state park, just a state park, we where better off with Hyacinth.
That is all for now. Please come back for I will be blogging the planting of my gardens, not as elaborate as Longwood but all mine.