More Sandwich Glass Scores

Quick stop at Crow Farm to pick up some beach plum jelly.  I love that stuff.  In the 70s, my dad used to pick the beach plums around our cottage at Spring Hill Beach for jelly.  I can't recall if he made it or gave them to someone to make for us.  

Crow Farm has been around for 100 years and they still provide seasonal fresh produce, pies, jellies, etc.  Russell & I went to school with the current generation that's running the farm.  It's a real Sandwich institution. 

The pull to hunt for Sandwich Glass, despite high tide, was too much so I went to my spot to see what I could find.  See those two sticks out there?  That's the top of a now-submerged dock.  That's how high the water level was.

SUCCESS!  Red!  Whoo hoo!

And another, white with red.

Of course had to stop for the obligatory Boardwalk pictures.

Normally I would never venture out when the water's this high (unless my intent is to jump into the water, which was very tempting on this warm day) but the distance from the parking lot to the bridge part is pretty short so I braved it.

Sparkly

The water was crystal clear

Osprey Nest

Since I was in the area, I decided to try and find the old abandoned railway car.  I'd never heard of, or seen this, in all the years I lived there the first time.  No idea what the history of it is.  As I stood there shooting pics, I could hear the train whistle headed my way.  I was stoked!

Here she comes!

The engineer waved to me.

Have always loved the sound of a train.

Yummy yum!

My scores for the day

The beach finds.  Trying so hard to stop collecting pretty rocks and shells but they're so pretty. 

Sandwich glass

Slag which I love finding as much as the shattered glass pieces

The crown jewels of that day's finds.  3 red/pink, a purple...greens and blues.  I was a happy camper!

My Little Town, Part 1

Happened to come across the cranberry harvest on the large bog along Rte. 6A in East Sandwich.  It seemed early this year.  There were so many people parked on both sides of the road that I had to go down the road that runs behind the bog.  The bog is flooded and the berries rise to the top where they are corralled, sucked up a hose and into the back of a truck.

This is the pumphouse and I loved the weathervane, although it's kinda fancy for a pumphouse!

The view from Chipman Hill.  Damn those wires to hell!  lol

A little lower down the hill; still a great view but not as good as from higher up.

Pretty house on Liberty Street.

First Church of Christ, also known as the Christopher Wren because that's the style church it is.  Elvis Presley used a picture of it on his 1967 album 'How Great Thou Art'.  

Downtown

Grist Mill

Artesian well.  My dad did, and maintained, the plumbing on this 'back in the day'.  People come from all over to fill water jugs with this ice cold and delicious water.

Very pretty house on Grove Street.

The old Newcombe's Tavern, also on Grove Street.  British loyalists hung out here, plotting how to crush the patriots who were down the road meeting at Fessenden's Tavern, which is now known as the Dan'l Webster Inn.