Monday, later on

Mr. Hudson has added a tidy little cellar entryway to the hotel and has been painting the rear and side walls of the hotel an old-fashioned shade of deep reddish-brown. Little bits of clean-up work went on along Route 12, today: some driveways down towards Sangerfield are getting a final smoothing of blacktop; topsoil is waiting for turf or Hydroseed next to the new sidewalks at the corner of Sanger Avenue and Park Place, and new pavers have been laid where the "adjustment" was made to the curbing in front of Morgan's Harware and the Hotel. Tomorrow - if all goes according to the D.O.T. schedule! - TREES ARRIVE!

We'll be eager to see if the ornamental pear trees, due to be planted between the Hotel and Stewart's, already have their Autumn colors.


To see the brightest foliage, take a ride along Kelly Road (off of Mason Road, just North of Hubbardsville) and look down into Nine Mile Swamp. It's dazzling to the eye, and nearly blinded my camera!