Boston Post Road Post

The Lily Pond, popular with turtles and purple pitcher plants (on island).

I don't really want to write this entry. Instead, I want to skip right to the Boston Post Road Post Postscript ....

However, I will try to come up with something amusing along the way .... Last Columbus Day we visited Plymouth Rock for the first time. We became acutely aware of how long Massasoit had been missing from our annual Thanksgiving List of Things We Are Thankful For. Last year, he placed fourth, behind Health, Family and U.S. Citizenship. Perhaps this year we should move him up to third place, since if it hadn't been for him, we might not be enjoying No. 4 ....

This holiday weekend the Northeast has been experiencing Summer's last bounce: temps reaching the 80s, with a breeze reminiscent of vacations at the shore. Add a horizon of turning leaves and things start to get confusing -- as though we've caught Mother Nature changing her clothes ....

... So we motored down the Boston Post Road for 20 miles, past Longfellow's Wayside Inn, which was a source of inspiration for the great poet when he visited it in 1862 while it was called the How Tavern. Beyond the inn, the post road forked, leading us to the Garden In The Woods, a 45-acre park highlighting native plants.

These grounds, part of The New England Wild Flower Society, offered much relief and validation to my landscaping efforts since I can now stop calling several species weeds and instead refer to them as wildflowers. I learned we have several types of asters on our property which sounds very classy compared to the wort weed choking them.

Another highlight of the day was the icy-cold can of San Pellegrino Limonata for sale in the gift shop. This stuff is the best liquid ever made by humans! If I were Ponce de Leon wandering through Florida (or Massachusetts) and found a fountain of San Pellegrino Limonata, I'd be saying, Ok this is close enough!

So anyway I highly recommend a visit to this charming and peaceful plot of woodlands. It worked for Longfellow ....

  '... Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining,
  Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day,
  Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining,
  Buds that open only to decay ....



Here's a link:
www.newenglandwild.org


Here's a link to Longfellow's Wayside Inn:

www.wayside.org


Ok, I believe I have achieved my goal here and will now press on to Boston Post Road Post Postscript territory and beyond, which I've tentatively titled The Post-Boston Post Road Post Postscript Post ....









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