FIREWORKS in New Hope!

As promised...MORE fireworks pictures!  We were on the Lambertville, New Jersey side of the Lambertville Bridge....

People standing along the length of the Lambertville Bridge ....

FIREWORKS in New Hope!, originally uploaded by creativedawn.

Every Friday night in New Hope, there is a HUGE firework display. I must say they are some of the best I've seen. Unfortunately, with a new smart phone....Um, this is the best picture so far. Hopefully DH has more and better pictures. We were on the New Jersey side and filming through a tree. There were so many people there; apparently it is a very popular event. Oh, they happen EVERY Friday night during the summer!

We drove home under a moonlit night!!!

I'm NOT FINISHED WITH VERMONT YET....but

Meanwhile, have you ever seen clouds as pretty as these

...or these

These wonderful clouds floated by all day over New Hope, PA.  The day was hot, but not humid and Hubby, Junior and I took full advantage of the wonderful day by walking along the strip of wonderful Main Street shops.  We lunched at Havana; very scrumptious food.  We took lots of pictures of  the Delaware River....

The area has great wildflowers everywhere.  There is a wildflower farm nearby and as time goes on, we will explore the surrounding area more.

Lovely flowers...Trumpets, I think...

Cute little bird house...well, maybe not so little....

There are fish in the stream!

House on the Delaware....

More to come....There are fireworks tonight!  See ya later...

More Vermont! lots of pictures

I'm not going to yak here...just show you some more pictures of the Vermont Quilt Show!

This quilt has to be seen in person...it is freaking AWESOME!

Aren't these quilts beautiful, the double sided quilt at the bottom was just so awesome.  Of course these are just a very small number of the pictures I took as there were just so many beautiful quilts.  So much talent!!!  Hope you enjoy this small group of quilts as much as I did.

A cruise on The Spirit of Ethan Allen III....

Dinner was a lovely boat ride on The Spirit of Ethan Allen III for a 2/1/2 hour dinner cruise around Lake Champlain.  At one point it rained so hard that we couldn't see the ocean out the windows.  Oh yes!  We had a window seat... but Mother Nature rewarded us later with the most beautiful SUNSET ever!  

Taken at dock along side the ship...

How about a little look at some really lovely waterfront property

Hubby and me!

We really enjoyed the sunset!

...and the night time pics ...

STILL HERE!

YES!  I have been missing in action...lol, from my blogging in any case.  This is a little bit of what I've been up to .  A couple weeks ago, DH said come on, let's leave the kids behind (all grown) and take a little trip.  Where, I asked.  To Vermont!  VERMONT?????  Well, I packed and off we went.  What made me just go along with his program...he mentioned the Vermont Quilt Festival.  That man knows just how to make me move....and FAST!   Anyhoo, it was a long seven hour drive through some of the most beautiful area I've ever seen.  We went to Burlington...which is a small city on Lake Champlain.  What an AWESOME, BEAUTIFUL landscape...my mouth is still open in amazement at the beauty of this area!!!

Here's the view from our hotel room overlooking Lake Champlain....

The views were spectacular from our hotel room!

Okay, okay...we arrived in Vermont around 830 am and headed right to the quilt festival.  YES!  There were awesome beautiful antique quilts....gorgeous landscape quilts...what better place to make a landscape quilt...right!  

This quilt sorta spoke to me...love the hearts that really looked like shamrocks to me!  The quilting was just lovely.  It is the Double Irish Chain pattern and on the embroidered on the back   "Edward Anthony McBirney, SJ, Rutland, Vt, Feb. 5, 1967.  Reported to have been made for Father McBirney by his mother.  Donated by Gabriel Walden, 1967.  * Vermont Quilt Festival, Patterns of History*

Combination Crazy Quilt with Kate Greenway patterns...made by Cynthia Morse Hobbs King of Marshfield, VT about 1890. Featured n Plain and Fancy: Vermont's People and Their Quilts. Museum purchase 2004  

Silk crazy quilt. Made about 1881in honor of J.D. Wickham who served as headmaster at the Burr and Burton Seminary in Manchester,  VT. Donated by Marjorie Schuffler 1975

All cotton quilt made in a crazy quilt variation.  Philea A. Spear of Waitsfield crafted this quilt in 1909 when she was 84 years old.  She recorded that there are 12,976 pieces of material...  This is my most favorite...it has to be seen in person in order to really get the full effect of this gorgeous quilt!!!

...more to come