THERE'S A MOOSE BEHIND EVERY TREE!

You have to love a police department with a sense of humour.  This is the scene outside the police office in Carroll, New Hampshire.  Obviously, we were in the mountains where every store is stuffed with moose - everything.  We thought this was the best!

We started out in New Hampshire this morning and drove all the way through Vermont and are now in New York. - back at Lake Placid.  To get here, we drove through the beautiful mountain area of both states, crossed Lake Champlain on the ferry and then through the very picturesque upstate New York.  The Black-eyed Susans have replaced the Lupins along the highways but the ferns are still as thick and lush as on the way through in June.  We were imagining what this area would look like in the fall.

Back to the ferry, though!  We have become quite adept at getting on and off the ferries we've encountered along the way.  The first picture is of the sister ferry to the one we were travelling on.  The second picture is our view off the front of the ferry, because, as usual, we were loaded first.  Some ferries are free and some cost a bit.  This one, however was nearly $20.00, but the ride was almost half an hour so I guess it was worth it.

Von Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, VT

This afternoon we visited the Trapp Family Lodge at Stowe, VT.  It is in the most beautiful setting you can imagine and as we drank coffee on the deck we enjoyed the view of the Appalachian Mountains around us.

The Lodge is set up very high so you can see for miles and it was a cloudy/sunny day so the sunlight hit some places of our vista, but not all.  Lodge is big and imposing and sits at the top of a very narrow, windy road, but was busy  with sightseers like us and Lodge guests.

When we were in Bar Harbor, Ann went into a store that sells all kinds of products that change colour in the sun.  One of the things she bought, which was pretty neat, was a set of nail polishes.  I tried the pink polish that was supposed to change to purple in the sun and Ann tried the blue that turns to green.  That was two nights ago, and because of the overcast weather and rain we've been experiencing, it wasn't until this afternoon that we could really see them change.  As they say here, "Wicked cool!"

To be continued......