Friday, July 7, 2006

Trip back East: Scenery

Larry’s parents live in a small apartment in a retirement community, so we stayed at a nearby hotel. Our room overlooked a small seating area and a view of the Connecticut river in New Hampshire. The trees were lush and green from all the rains they’ve had this spring and early summer. Ironically and/or fortunately, there was absolutely no rain during the week of our visit.

There was plenty of room to stay at my parent’s cottage. Birch Lodge as it is called has been in my Dad’s family for over 100 years. His grandfather bought it in the 1880’s. I haven’t done the research to learn when it was actually built. The cedar clapboard siding and roofing was done in the 1990’s. It can get very hot upstairs since it is very rustic and not finished or insulated. Again for the week we were visiting, humidity was low and the evenings cooled off nicely.