Strange animals later identified as "bloggers" were spotted, behaving very oddly,
on remote roadsides. We also saw a fox, flocks of migrating geese, a late-hatched
Monarch butterfly, drying its wings; white-faced Herefords and black Angus,
a friendly horse, and not too many tourists.
Plentiful meals were consumed: this one was a roast beef supper at a small town church
(I just noticed that girl's moose t-shirt): big platters of roast beef, cole slaw, green
beans, mashed potatoes, pickles, rolls, and twenty different kinds of homemade pies,
served family-style in a church basement, for $10 a person. 
We picked two bags of perfectly crisp apples on a hillside near this one, stopped at
the farmhouse for squash and cider. The friends visiting us were Canadian, and we
went home and made Thanksgiving dinner, beginning with red wine with cheddar and
sliced apples; then turkey, roasted potatoes, parsnips, carrots, turnips and beets;
cranberry sauce, butternut squash, Scandinavian-style red cabbage cooked with vinegar
and jam, a big green salad and, of course, ice cream and apple pie.
A Canadian Thanksgiving in New England - how wonderful!
Posted by: marja-leena | October 08, 2007 at 04:48 PM
Hi Marja-Leena - happy Thanksgiving to you too! It's fun to be able to celebrate TWO of my favorite holidays!
Posted by: beth | October 08, 2007 at 05:46 PM
It was wondeful indeed! Merci mille fois!
L'arroseur arrosé:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nivuniconnu/1518965638/
Posted by: Martine | October 08, 2007 at 06:34 PM
Hah!
It was definitely a time to remember. I'm so glad you came down!
Posted by: beth | October 08, 2007 at 07:15 PM
Beth, those lovely photos could have been taken in the lanes around here. Hence 'New England', I guess..!
Posted by: Dick | October 09, 2007 at 05:34 AM
I'd love to see what it looks like in "Old England" around you, Dick!
Posted by: beth | October 09, 2007 at 09:54 AM
Mmmm. I'm still thinking about that roast beef and the roast turkey!
Posted by: blork | October 10, 2007 at 10:52 AM
Now you made me go and miss Boston and New Hampshire. Ah, the turning leaves! Here in Japan the tree frogs are still suction-cup walking on my window at night.
Posted by: Miguel | October 14, 2007 at 12:56 AM
I'd really like to see that, actually...
Posted by: beth | October 14, 2007 at 08:51 PM