Dear Heather,
As the wise woman once said, Tempted to travel? Travel with children. This will cure all temptation.
Nuff said about that.
Honestly not so bad at all--we even went for a hike on the way back: Nelson-Kennedy Ledges State Park, where glaciers once thrust up huge wedges of rock, forming natural trenches now covered in maples, beeches, deep green ferns, and graffiti.
The house was stifling at arrival, but the fans are running and things are cooling off. We piled out of the car and inspected our garden first. The roses are absolutely stunning. Something is eating my basil and my leaf vegetables to shreds. The grass has sprouted everywhere. Honeysuckle breeze filters in the windows; the broad, handsome wood trim smells full and hot, shut away from the night breeze for too many days.
The climbing roses especially are brilliant, ravishing, embarrassing.
Surely your two-year old is not as wild as ours'.
Wish you were here and we could eat big congratulatory bowls of ice-cream together,
xoxoxoxo
Kimby
