Where did September go?

Wow!!  It's fall already.  Where did the summer go?  August and September flew by so quickly.  When you work at a school, you just kind of write off those months.

Well, I want to tell you about the sunflower field I found...after they were almost entirely dead.  Twenty-two acres of sunflowers...400,000 of them.  All dead.  Or almost dead.  Problem being I didn't find out about them until they were almost ready to plow them down.  Bet this will go on my calendar for next summer!

Longwood Sunflowers - all 400,000 of them...on their last leg!!

 On the same day we photographed the sunflowers, we left for a long weekend in the Poconos.  Friends of ours, Barb and Charlie Horn, have a little cabin on the lake in jim Thorpe and they invited us to come up for a stay.  The Horn family, Charlie, Barbara, and their 3 children, Charlie, David and Laura, all built the cabin on the lake back in the 70's.  It's an authentic log home and it's huge (4 bedrooms) and it's right on the lake! You just walk out of the backyard right into the lake.  Good fishing,  and beautiful scenery.  And you really haven't heard QUIET until  you've been there.

We had a fabulous weekend.  Thanks Barb and Choy.   It was great re-connecting with you and your wonderful hospitality.

Here are some shots of our holiday.

So which way to we turn?

The Cabin

 The Dock

Lots of Canada geese and ducks on the lake.

Captain Charlie Horn

Captain Horn made sure that Dick caught a couple of bass.

Happy Camper

 Something I never saw before...a lake clam.  Charlie says they have no taste, so I let him live.

Don't cha just love log homes?

Don't cha just love cutie patooties standing next to logs?

 Sunset on the lake. 

 SATURDAY MORNING...

We slept in a little while on Saturday, then we went on down to Jim Thorpe, or actually to Upper Jim Thorpe, to the Farmer's Market.  Very small, not like Booth's Corner...but then again...it's real farmers, with their own products.  Cool

Famer's Market  - Live Entertainment

Pumpkins and Mums...it's that time of year!

Real LIVE sunflowers!

 This is what they are supposed to look like!

 Toms and Peps

I will miss my tomatoes the most.  

It's September and I can't wait for July, already.

Indian Corn

YUMMO!

SUNDAY MORNING... TRIP TO TOWN.

MAUCH CHUNK, PA

 Lower Jim Thorpe - That's the Asa Packer mansion (red building) in the foreground.  Asa was a founder of the town Mauch Chunk in Lehigh Valley, Carbon County, PA.  He had coal mines and transported coal, at first by boat to Philadelphia, then later he build railroads to get the coal there.  He was a member of the PA House of Representatives and was later defeated by Ulysses S. Grant  for the presidency of the USA.  Cute little town...hilles that rival San Fran.  Better have a four wheel drive in the winter.

Upper Jim Thorpe, Looks pretty much the same, but smaller and up hill in the other direction.

Our hosts...Barb and Choy

And there was this church for sale...I swear if it didn't snow there, I'd have bought it.

I always wanted to live in a small church.  They make stunning residences.

Walking through town, sweet little gardens.

Like a Norman Rockwell painting.

Horse and carriage rides through town

I just love horses.  You can see their souls in their eyes.  

People take such pride in their homes, here.

Beautiful decorative trim work.

Such a pretty little town.

THE TRAIN STATION

All in all, a wonderful, restful weekend.