Sunday

Early Thursday morning, the Amtrak passenger train rolls through Westfield, New York.

On a drive to Erie, Pa last week, the clouds off to the south were so amazing. These clouds hung around all day, but over us up north the sky was clear and beautiful.

This is our youngest granddaughter Jalyn, and her first lost tooth. She has 3 more loose, and hopes she gets new ones by the time corn season rolls around..

Azrael is one of my barn cats, and it a super hunter, but still loves to clown around too. BTW, since I have had the Hav-a-Hart trap set hoping to catch the coons that have been raiding my bird feeders, I've caught Azrael 3 times. LOL She wasn't upset either.

On Thursday we took the girls out to breakfast and were able to see the morning passenger train ( see above. That shot is out of order.). It was the first time they had seen this train, and they were really excited to get to wave at all the people riding the train. On the way there we drove by a riding stable and all these donkeys were waiting for their breakfast..

We went to the beach too and we all searched for beach glass. Lots and lots of feathers littered the sand. This is a gull feather.

This town has a different sect of Amish than we have at home. Their buggies have brown tops where our local Amish drive all black ones. Can you see the little boy riding in the back. They also have a barrier across the back of this buggy to keep any youngsters from falling out.

In the town of Westfield New York they have plenty of black squirrels. We drove around for a while and saw a few. I even saw a black one with a reddish tail, but couldn't get my camera focused before he ran away..
This is also the town that then President Abraham Lincoln stopped here on his way through to visit with a small girl who sent him a letter saying he would be much more handsome if he grew a beard. They have a wonderful statue of the two of them, and I will take pictures the next time we go there and do a post.

While we were waiting for more trains, the girls found lots of ripe black raspberries for their cereal, and they each got to take home a small bag..

We saw some grey squirrels too.
I hope you all are having a wonderful week-end. Tomorrow I have 3 rose bushes to plant, and the weather folks say we are going to get rain late in the afternoon. It is so dry, it will be welcome.