Sunny and trees coloring up on the farm
It was our anniversary on Saturday and as we both were exhausted from all the work recently, we thought a beautiful roadtrip would be nice. We figured if we headed south into northwestern Connecticut, it would really be spring there and we could enjoy the flowers.
Snake rail fence in Canaan, CT
This is what we actually found when we got to the area we had planned to drive through. There was snow to be easily found most everywhere at noontime.
We had loaded the cooler with fruit, drinks, cheese, smoked ham, nuts, and snacks. I also had dark chocolate and he had his chocolate chip cookies. We had my CD of moldies (music from the 60’s and 70’s) and once we’d survived the long lines at the health food store, we had hit the road about 10:30.
One of the first things we noticed was the multitude of huge forsythia hedges everywhere we went. Mine have just gone by. What we’d forgotten was western Connecticut is in the hills, much like the Berkshires of Massachusetts, and they were actually much behind us in spring.
We went by a lot of ponds and lakes and rivers in this area. Some of them had white caps from the wind. At Wangum Lake we saw this pair with their single gosling.
There is a lot of money in this area of Connecticut and we saw plenty of McMansions. There were also a LOT of rocks and we saw miles and miles of stone walls.
This barn caught my eye. It was part of Cream Hill Farm in Canaan, CT.
I didn’t write down where we’d found this mile or mile and a half of daffodils lining the road on both sides. I thought it might have been Cream Hill Road in Canaan, but it could have been somewhere after that.
Somewhere after that I’d managed to hit some button on the camera, and make the screen all funny and the flash would not work. I was fooling with it when my husband saw this:
This trail of forget-me-nots went way back in the woods.
There were some really old houses, we saw one dated 1797. Many of them had the small horizontal windows under the eaves like this one:
I think this house was near Lime Rock, CT.
Bridge into Sharon, CT
I was still messing with my camera so my husband got this photo with his phone.
By then we were starting to get tired and had started to head north again. It was mostly cloudy and there were more snow mini blizzards. It wasn’t until we got into Granville MA that we saw tree color again.
I was nearly blown off my feet by the wind on the crest of the hill above this shot. The wind was really ferocious!
We got home about 4:30 and were glad to be back in our warm house. My husband lit a fire in the woodstove as it was to be cold again Saturday night.
It was a nice way to spend the day. We’d traveled the tiny back roads most of the time, looking at old farms, cows, and old houses. We didn’t see many flowers besides the forsythia and daffodils though. We’d not been down in this area in decades, as most of our road trips have been to the north or west of us, in summer when it is hot. So this was something different and a nice area to explore.