Kids and Kites

One way to salvage a cold windy picnic for the kids is to produce a kite that flies like a dizzy swallow all hopped up on Red Bull and turn them loose! My friend Jared produced just such a kite and several kids miraculously and immediately forgot all about the cold for the better part of an hour!

This kid nearly joined the kite in the wind coming of Long Island Sound.

The kite just flew tight dive-bombing corkscrews at random

It'll be right back for...

...another strafing run

Lean into it, or fly with it!

This pass leaves little smiling bodies strewn about the Harkness Park lawn

Smile at the wind

Gillette Castle

After spending the weekend in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine under gray and drizzling skies we awoke to blue skies and sunshine at home. We took a short drive up the river to ride the Chester-Hadlyme Ferry before it closes for the season. Then we took a walk around the Gillette Castle. Sometimes you don't have to go far from home to find some of the most interesting sights.

Gillette Castle from the ferry

The Chester-Hadlyme Ferry from Gillette Castle

 

 

 

 

My wife and kids all told me not to include this picture of the arch because they like the other one better... I included it anyway!