who keeps this garden? It is beautiful.

As we drove around through the three states we saw many fields that looked like they had been mowed.  I wondered who just mowed the fields and left them so pristine.   I assume that the Moose had not tracked through the fields – besides there were no Moose Crossing signs nearby – that would explain it I suppose.  We noticed that many of the towns had biblical names.  We passed through the town of Bethlehem and were delighted to see that there are many well preserved Victorian homes in the city.  On the way out of town we saw a very tempting sign which said “Giant Garage Sale Ongoing”.  As we passed through the Mt. Washington Valley, we saw the big mountains there and there was still snow on them.  Not a lot of snow, but to have snow in May seems strange. 

We drove by the Androscoggin River and I wanted to stop, but we were in a line of traffic so the River went un-photographed.   We also passed Moosebrook State Park.    Somewhere along the road we passed Duffs Dog House (a hot dog stand all dressed up in fancy colors and signs).  In one valley we saw a sign for a Mineral Collector.  It had a drawing of a male figure with his feet above ground and his head and shoulders and arms below ground……leading us to believe that he burrowed for his minerals.  I guess they were running out of names for towns because we came upon many of them with a compass direction telling us if we were at East (somewhere) or West (somewhere).  We had done the Google maps and had a regular map from the AAA.  Neither of these maps contained a complete listing of all the little towns and villages – just the major ones.  Most homes seem to have wood piles and it was cool enough for some of them to have their fireplaces working and it was wonderful to smell the burning wood.  Reminded me of my growing up days when we burned wood in the kitchen stove for cooking.

Most of the buildings that we could see from the road were in fairly good repair but the ones that were falling down were really in a shambles.  In their heyday, I bet they held a place of refuge from storms for cattle, a playground for children and myriad other uses.  Perhaps they even housed early model auto’s or even a horse drawn wagon or even a sleigh.  The roads are very narrow here which leads one to think that the roads only catered to smaller and simpler vehicles in past ages.

Everywhere we looked we saw trees covered in blossoms and green and yellow carpets of dandelions.

Who keeps this garden so beautiful?