Clematis growing on a gazebo in downtown Augusta. Such beautiful flowers I could not pass up the chance to take a picture of them The house behind is a historic house.
Sumner street contains many historic houses.
this house at #12 Sumner street is featured in a book about the Underground Railroad and this particular home houses many slaves who were escaping to freedom. The man who was sitting on the porch told me that the house has undergone many renovations since the slave railroad days. The fact that it still stands is a wonderful thing to me.
this is the church across the street from #12 Sumner street. It is made of Hallowell Granite and the carillon in the tower still works and chimes on the hour.
the Lithgow public library occupies part of the historic district of Augusta.
this is the library and it is made of Hallowell Granite as well.
In this room inside the library they hold concerts etc.
A view inside the library.
This is in the reading room of the library. (Magazines are here)
a carpet similar to this one is in Blaine House.
Even though the library is a historic building, it also contains a bank of computers for those who are literate enough to use them - and endure the wait to get your turn to use them as well.
The spire in the center of this picture is all you can see of churches now that the trees are all fully leafed out. In the winter you could easily tell where the churches were because you could see them through the bare limbs of the trees.
This is the court house. we digitized records from this Kennebec County Court house.
this is a sundial in the grounds of the court house. It is not a working sundial because it is in constant shadow of the nearby tree. I suppose that when it was put in use there was only a small sapling and no one thought that it would grow to be a shade tree and obliterate the sundial.
this is the building in which we live. The far right is the original mansion and the otehr parts were added. the part on the far left used to be the barn...............but now this houses 36 apartments.
Our apartment is on the bottom right of this picture. It is a quaint apartment and is part of the original house. I like it a lot better than the first apartment that we lived in.
some volunteer Black Eyed Susan flowers on Riggs Brook Lane.
Early morning across the meadow at Riggs Brook Lane.
Orange slugs feeding on the pollen laden grasses. These are the same grasses that the tiny orb weaver was trying to use to make his web.
These are some of the 21 boxes of 3x5 cards that we are required to recapture because the hard drive on which they were stored crashed.
this is how we have to capture the cards. Luckily we can do them two at a time. One at a time and we would never be out of here.................
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