The Daily Hobbit

One of the shops of Skaneateles, NY, has a wall of Folk Art American Flags.

A folk art flag celebrating the 4th on display in the neighborhood.

Cute, patriotic shopfront in Lititz, Pennsylvania.

Melody relaxes in my office. She came to work with me because she had a vet appointment early in the morning. Melody has an ocular disease and gets seen by a vet opthalmologist at the Animal Eye Clinic in Bergen County. She will be on supplements and medicine therapy for the rest of her life.

A storm sits to the east of Route 202/206 in Bridgewater.

Just off I-78 in Pennsylvania, you can stop at Roadside America. Been there since 1935. I remember going there as a kid, and I also took my daughter there when she was small.

The sunrise over Pennsylvania Dutch Country. I just wanna go home.

Looking out from a whimsical antique and gift store. Lititz has a lot of cute shops. Oh wait…I’m supposed to be working! OOPS.

My hotel is right next to this farm. Like, my car is parked right at the edge.

Happy Rainy First Day of Summer. And I gotta drive to central Pennsylvania. Another business trip.

A collection of Healing Stones. Blue lace agate, purple fluorite, adventurine, tigers eye, ocean jasper, and rutilated smoky quartz.

Literally. It’s a ton of bricks.

Birthday balloons bounce in the wind in front of someone’s house. Not anyone I know (for the record).

Closeup of my New York Asters.

My castle lantern glows in the garden.

Container gardening is fun.

Now that I’m home from another trip, our boy is happy. To watch him play, click:

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Final approach to Newark Airport. Two and a half hours late.

Suitcase sculpture at the Atlanta Airport.

Indoor, glow-in-the-dark miniature golf.

There is a Medieval Times! Cool.

A view from my hotel. That is the Discover Mall and in the distance is Stone Mountain.

There’s always lots of action at Newark Airport. As soon as I get dropped off at Terminal C, the guy in the car next to me gets arrested.

A latern glows softly during the evening hours.

An abandoned house in East Millstone. It’s for sale.

At the Lord Stirling Stables, the resident kitty walks past the resident rooster. And no fur or feathers flew.

While in the graveyard, I came across a baby bird. I took a short video of him in the grass. Really short. Mommy and Daddy bird were not pleased with me.

Part of the graveyard is very overgrown. I couldn’t get through the brush to read this gravestone. It looked cool. Looks like two lambs sitting on top of it.

This is the Mt. Bethel Baptist Meeting house. The graveyard contains the remains of several soldiers from the Revolutionary War. Beyond the graveyard you can see all the way to Warren County.

Enjoying a glass of Senor Sangria. For a report on the household debut, click here.