Connecticut: Part Two!

Hard to believe there are only 2 weeks left until we leave for our trip to Maine! And because next weekend is Labor Day that means we only have 9 more working days! Or... well, I only have 9 more working days, John's work schedule isn't exactly the same as mine.

I have all sorts of lists of things I need to do before we go, things I need to buy, and things I need to pack. One of the things I would like to do is get caught up on my photo editing! I'm almost done with the wedding I photographed in July, which means I can start getting back to photos I took for me instead of ones I took for other people. I know I'm going to take TONS of photos in Maine, so it would be nice to come back and start editing those right away!

John and I have been going on tons of bike rides this summer, partially because we wanted to work up on endurance so that we could bike all around Acadia. We also bought a new bike rack that's much nicer than my old one (that was a graduation present from my parents when I graduated from OU. Which means it was over 11 years old. Crazy!), so we're confident that the bikes will make it to Maine without falling off or anything. I wasn't so confident about that with the old rack, sad to say.

Anyway, to catch you up on some of my photos... I left off in the last entry with our hike at Kent Falls State Park in Connecticut. I have one last photo from that hike, as I realized recently that I completely forgot to upload it!



Later on that weekend, we hiked up to Hublein Tower at Talcott Mountain State Park. What a trek! The first part of the trail isn't horribly exciting, just a lot of walking uphill and a lot of the same scenery, pretty much just this:



But suddenly the trail turns and you're walking along the ridge of the mountain and it's beautiful:







And then eventually you make it up to the tower itself:



You can even walk up into the tower to the observation deck and get views of Connecticut in every direction!



Remember in the last entry, when I mentioned that my mom's lilies hadn't bloomed yet? Well, guess what happened while I was there???





And that's about it for the Connecticut trip, but since I have two other random photos, I'll slap them on the end here, hope they don't make you too hungry! First we have something you see at our house a LOT during the summer - our grill. Our vegetable garden is thriving, so we're usually grilling up a lot of veggies, but we also like buying peaches from the local Farmer's Market and throwing them on the grill (after soaking them in a mixture of vanilla extract, almost extract and brown sugar..mmmm...)


And finally, here's a Edamame Pesto and Spaghetti dish I made kinda following this recipe (the original recipe called for peas, but I didn't have any fresh, and I prefer frozen edamame to frozen peas, so I went with it):