Green mountains

I have lots of lovely pictures from today but no Net access for my PC, no way to move the photos from the camera into this phone, so no way to get them into Blogger. Well, I have one idea but the first goal is to tell you how today went. The short version is, swimmingly.

We started with Mary and Mark's second end-of-summer brunch for family and Amherst-area friends. Lots of small children, naturally, since parents of kids tend to meet others like themselves at the kids' schools. Also some fascinating adults, the kind who love to make music, enjoy literature in interesting languages, and teach. I'd love to take some of them home if I could.

Then I went on to Windsor, VT to the American Precision Museum, which Johanna had recommended after my previous Vermont visit. If you have any love of gadgets you should try to get here. A large 19th-century factory floor full of lathes and other elaborate metal- and woodworking machines - the first machine tools - that taught humanity how to automate manufacturing by creating precise interchangeable parts. You could call it the American Inventiveness Museum. On a lowering Sunday afternoon just before closing, I had the place to myself except for Sheila, the sole employee, who loves the place and is a fount of knowledge about it.

Finally, on to Burlington through gorgeous mountain scenery and postcard Vermont villages. Here Jane and I had a quiet evening except for the antics of Boaz the cat, who is almost healed from his last fight and can't wait to get back out to show the neighborhood bullies who's boss.