Thanks as always to The Other McCain for the Rule Five links!  Be sure to check out the extensive totty compendium at the link.

With that said:  Being on the road again is not completely without benefit.

This past weekend was sunny and warm here in New England, so I went exploring.  On Saturday I went down to New Bedford and visited the New Bedford Whaling Museum (no whaling goes on there now – I guess people now have something against clean-burning lamp oil.)  Yesterday I wandered seemingly at random until I ended up in the environs of York, Maine.  Photos follow.

New Bedford:

Maine:

Pretty day, pretty places.   That makes for a good weekend.  I should still be around for the fall colors, which are supposed to be pretty striking – right now the sumac, always the first to turn, are just starting to spread traces of crimson across the countryside.  In October things should be brilliant.