Second October Weekend

Had company over the weekend. We hit the Ashfield Fall Festival, along with about ten million other folks. I picked up some useful tools at the giant tag sale Mike Skulski runs every year. Our friends bought some art glass from local artist Ed Bransom. My grandson, Walter made a killing with a game I helped him build. ... and of course I forgot to take pictures of all this. The best part of Fall Festival was the blueberry cobbler our friend Jane made for the local Episcopalian Church's fund raiser. Later Saturday, we saw a very entertaining play at Shakespeare and Company in Lenox. "Accomplice" is full of the usual plot twists of a stage mystery and then some.

On Sunday, we went to an antiques show in Historic Deerfield and the to Shelburne Falls to see, amongst other things, the Bridge of Flowers. The Bridge of Flowers is an old trolley bridge that has been converted to a pedestrian bridge flanked by flower beds maintained by local volunteers. Here are a few photos from Sunday:

Our friends and Jean, 

Our distinguished neighbor across the road. The sheep are there to eat the grass. The llama, Fern, is there to protect the sheep from coyotes. She is very protective and bossy. She is also a snob. I have never managed to meet with her approval and she always glares at me with disdain or even out right contempt.

and some photos from Shelburne Falls and the Bridge of Flowers. The first is the Deerfield River, which flows through the village.

 My photos aren't bad, just not up to the standard set by Julia V.