orange against blue

flowers & rust

It was a good day for a walk in the woods, a wander at Maudslay State Park. Only a few photos jumped into my camera, of flowers & rust.

feasting on flowers

a bee feasting on flowers...

a bee and a coneflower

A flying bee, attracted by a bright yellow coneflower...

curved steel

I love the curves in the structure of the Memorial Bridge.

open!

It's not often I get a chance to walk down the center of a road without dodging motor vehicles; I grabbed that opportunity today. The opening ceremony for the new Memorial Bridge joining Portsmouth and Kittery was this morning. Immediately following the ceremony the bridge was opened to pedestrians and cyclists. When I chatted with someone from the New Hampshire Department of Transportation he said they were considering waiting until overnight to open the bridge to motor vehicles.

As I was returning across the center span the "bridge is going to raise" horns sounded. The DOT staff on the bridge pushed us to move off of the center span. And hey! I was very lucky. I was among the last people to move beyond the space where the safety barriers would drop so I had a front row view of the span raising.

More photos from today's bridge visit can be viewed in the gallery Rebuilding a bridge, Portsmouth - Kittery starting with this photo and ending here.

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Click to read the article Portsmouth, Kittery, two states celebrate new Memorial Bridge in Seacoastonline.

painted

I love the intense colors and design on the back of this purple blossom.

a walk at high tide

I suppose it's not too much of a surprise that I felt a need to walk by the ocean today. It was a high tide walk on a beach of rolling pebbles and larger rocks, a place for stepping carefully. Where? my rocky walk was at Odiorne Point State Park on the New Hampshire coast.

first visit :: Tower Hill Botanic Garden

I woke up this morning to a Saturday without any plans and a need to do something different. Hmm... what should I do?

It felt like a good garden day so I headed to Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, MA. Today was what I think will be the first of many visits. I'm already wishing to see it a bit earlier in the year, and according to their brochure there is a winter garden that is open from October to May. The grounds were beautiful, varying from gardens to trails through the woods.

Photos can be seen in the gallery Tower Hill Botanic Garden - 2013.

emerging