Three days

Sunday evening I posted to this blog from my phone but couldn't include photos of the American Precision Museum I'd visited that afternoon in Windsor, VT, because my PC had no Net access. So here are two from the dozens I shot:

The museum is in this firearms factory built around 1820. The stream on the near side of the building once ran a mill-wheel that propelled lathes to shape rifle barrels and wooden stocks, routers to carve out the stocks to receive triggers and hammers, drill presses to make bore holes through the barrels, and specialized machines to make screws and add rifling to the barrels, all through a network of belts and pulleys before the advent of electric power. By the end of the nineteenth century this and other factories were making bicycles, watches, sewing machines, and typewriters using the same machine tools.

The museum is full of wonderful and sometimes beautiful machines. The most striking thing about this 1867 lathe is its gargantuan size - close to 20 feet long. (Click on any photo to enlarge it to about one-quarter the size of the original photo.)

On Monday we ran errands and had wonderful, long, nourishing talks. I have no photos. We ended the day with a delightful dinner at The Daily Planet in Burlington's Church Street Marketplace.

Today was another day of piling on the miles, from Burlington to Cooper, ME, just before you cross the border into New Brunswick. It rained a lot but I did get this quick photo of scenery near Mount Washington in New Hampshire's White Mountains. The mountain in the distance has its head in the clouds. Later I saw spectacular double rainbows.