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Jun 12, 2010

Pictures from a Saturday Drive

We had intended to go hiking in a New Hampshire state Forrest, but today turned out gray and rainy. Not wanting to stay cooped up inside the house all day, we decided to go for a drive out of town anyway even though it wasn't good walking weather.


We turned off onto a dirt logging road and the photo above is the view of the thick woodland we were driving through.

Along the way we came across this abandoned old farm. I thought this was a really interesting building. The picture came out kind of gray though because of the cloudy skies causing dull lighting. Also it was taken through the car windscreen, so you may notice some globs of rain.


I am not sure what these blossoms are called, but these flowering trees were everywhere along the road.

7 comments:

  1. Love the post.

    I posted about logging trails yesterday too! Creepy huh? :-)

    Love that old farm building. Was it the barn? what a shame it is abandoned.

    What delicately beautiful blossom.

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  2. What a beautiful building. I love going for scenic drives on rainy days.

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  3. I love that building! I guess y'all weren't able to go inside - I know if my sister had been there she wouldn't have been able to resist. :)

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  4. Lovely photos. I believe that is Mountain Laurel.
    Stopped by from New England Bloggers.

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  5. Al- What a coincidence. I am going over to look at your logging trails in a minute!

    Jenny - it was very tempting to go inside, but there were such a lot of no trespassing signs. I guess I was too chicken. It also would have been a bad example for my kids who were asking "what does trespassing mean?"

    Lizzie - Thanks for stopping by. I was hoping that someone would be able to tell me the name of the blossoms.

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  6. It's definitely mountain laurel. We have it here in northeast Pennsylvania too. It's so beautiful. We love NH, used to hike there a lot when we were first married. Went to North Conway on our honeymoon, in fact.

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