Balloon Evening

Last Friday was an evening of balloons in Hadley -- I was eating an easy dinner at the kitchen counter, looked out across the lawn and saw this:

... a low-flying balloon, nearly skimming the tops of the trees.  As the neighbours and my husband and I all scurried outdoors to watch the show, we saw the following:

There were others I didn't get pictures of -- but what a fun evening show!

Graduation 2010

A hearty congratulations to the Hopkins Academy students who graduated yesterday.  Read the short article about the graduation from MassLive here.  Valedictorian Marisa Babb and Principal Diana Bonneville are featured.  The article mentions that all graduating students are headed off to 2-4 years of college or the military.
Congratulations!

Memorial Day Parade, 2010

Sunday was the Hadley Memorial Day Parade, and I thought, what better way to introduce this brand new blog to the world than to share pictures from the parade? I took pictures of just about everything, but have selected only about half of them to share here.
The parade took place on Rt 9 and began at 2pm; we had prime seats at the corner of Rts 9 & 47, just across from Town Hall.