Friday afternoon

It could have been a day in September. Warmish, fairly bright - just right for raking or walking or biking or almost anything else outdoorsy. Tomorrow will at least start out the same way.



On the poind behind Jack Prior's house there were LOTS of water fowl: neither my eyes nor my camera could tell precisely what they were, but they must have been either Snow Geese, on their regular north-south flyway, or Seagulls someplace they'd never been before!


On East Bacon Street, Joan Albert and the Stephensons are moving in to Thanksgiving mode..


...but if you go to the Alcott Greenhouses, out on Route 20, you'll be swept right into the Christmas Season! They've had a "Christmas Room" for several years, but NOW the displays of trees and decorations have spread and even taken over the greenhouse!

These views are from the "house plant" room - what a wonderful combination of sights!




There may even be SOUNDS of Christmas in the air tomorrow, around noontime, when a group of willing students climb the tower of the Masonic Temple to learn how the nine bells - called a "chime" - are played. It is a wonderfully unique instrument which the community is most fortunate to have, but some consideration must be given the chimers who, by the very nature of their surroundings, cannot practise in private! So - if a chimer is preparing music for the Christmas Season, those within hearing are asked to understand. The listener's indulgence is also begged on behalf of the bells themselves which, tho noble, are not always as tunefully pitched as they might once have been.