Walden Pond

Ok, So Katie is brilliant and I can blog again. Thank you!! I have some catching up to do so bear with me! 

Pictured below, this is my "lost in thought" look. And why is this a good place to stop and ponder? Read on.

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."  -Henry Thoreau

It is really exciting to get to visit some of the places that you hear about in your English Literature class, like the home of Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond. It was so beautiful!! He had this small quiet home above the pond, the home is not still there but they have the home site where they can show you what it looked like. They also built a replica at the pond entrance which was pretty neat too. A perfect Sunday afternoon outing! So interesting to imagine his quiet, and humble life, and read some of the beautiful things that he wrote. Namely, "Walden Pond" :) So before it got too cold, (this was probably in the end of October) my little family and my sister Karlie, her husband Ryan and my darling niece and nephew took a small excursion.

Here we are riding in the car!

And then, the entrance to the pond.

Carter fell asleep as we pulled in, so we let him snooze it off in his stroller, but not long before we got this gem of a picture below. You know that feeling where you wake up somewhere you don't know, or you have that delusional, groggy feeling that makes you act kind of goofy? I love it when that happens to Carter :)

Here is a replica built of the small cabin home Thoreau would have lived in. 

This photo is a personal favorite of mine. The trees are truly stunning during the fall on the east coast.

Here is the actual site of Thoreau's home, above the pond a ways. It is so small you wonder how we can ever think to complain about a lack of space now a days!

My two silly boys. Love 'em.

This is Karlie, Ryan, Dean, and miss Ainsley

So to some maybe this is not so exciting. But if you like history any you would love to live where I do now. So much to see and do!! And more coming your way!

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours." -Henry Thoreau