the big trip, day 4, part 2

After our great hike, we headed to a nearby berry farm for another only-in-New-England experience: picking blueberries. It was very, very hot. But we stuck it out and came home with 5 pints of blueberries! (that's one pint container for each child...we just weren't sure that sharing was an option) Not wanting to waste them, we then ate lots of fresh blueberries, made blueberry pancakes for dinner, and had Madeleine's delicious blueberry buckle for breakfast. (in the picture from L to R: Allan, William, Charles, Ben and Will)

After sweating it out with the blueberries, we headed to Dartmouth and ate at Madeleine and Brian's favorite bagel shop for lunch. The rain started just as we were getting out of our cars and stopped not long as we had returned to the house in Queeche. It was as if the weather knew our schedule and was very obliging that day.

That afternoon, Madeleine was wonderful to allow Jim and I to leave her with the 6 kids (Brian was gone for a run) and go take pictures around beautiful Queeche, many of which are in the link in the previous post. We hope that some of the landscapes will eventually become paintings by Jim. That was part of our mission, to get some beautiful pictures of trees and other scenery that he might turn into something more than just a pretty photograph.