Despite lots of valiant attempts to capture the beauty and brilliance of the Sweet William that we dubbed the Blue Bonnet of Florida, it just is not accurately reflected in these photos.  It was lining the roadsides for at least 2 days, which was good, since they followed a 40 miler which was almost totally devoid of any signs of life save miles and miles and miles of straight road lined by Southern Pines.  Give us hills and funky convenience stores any day over the flat boring routes! 

Hey everyone -

The posts have fallen by the by in all the excitement of COMPLETING THE TOUR!!!  The last few days were a bittersweet emotional mix of excitement, anticipatory grieving the loss of having a 23 member family available 24/7 and trying not to project myself into the next day, year, moment.....whew!  I will get it all down when I have Mt Ascutney  to look out at from my dining room table, so dear readers, hang in there!  I'm headed home today from St. Augustine, to Burlington tomorrow for a visit with David and Eliza then I hope to wrap up this chapter of the blog next week - I still have lots to say (no surprise to those of you who know me well...)  What an exhilarating experience it has been!   More soon.....Peggy