Colonel Crawford is absolutely delightful! Whenever we visit a historic area I enjoy character interpreters the most. The best we've seen is "Thomas Jefferson" channeled at Williamsburg and elsewhere quite nicely by one Bill Barker.
Not sure if west coast farmland would have Amish and their buggies though.
That has to be one of dumbest postings of all times. Go ahead and have yourself a good laugh.
Where I'm from and where we now live are 600+ miles away.
The first pair of photos are from where we are right now. The winter image is what I see out the back door of our sun room. The second is from my front porch looking up our street. It's one of the few garden photos that doesn't show weeds.
The last three pictures are from OH, the first one from around where our kids live. In the photo is Himself standing with our daughter The second is from the city next to ours that we would take regular outings to since they had a cute Town Common area, just like I imagined New England would look like. Imagine my surprise to find that my idea of a New England town square is hard to find. Right angles and roads rarely happen together.
That has to be one of dumbest postings of all times. Go ahead and have yourself a good laugh.
I made a stupid incomplete statement about the location of the Amish in Ohio. When I am typing, my fingers go right past my thoughts.
Addie, YOU never mentioned Amish, I did! You had said "....and...are...looking for a place that will be familiar to what you left behind, you will find it on the West Coast.. If you grew up on a farm in Ohio, you will find plenty of farmland on the West Coast...". I was saying it wouldn't look the same in CA because there weren't any Amish buggies around. I guess my "point" wasn't too sharp. 
GG, I thought Addie called my point dumb too. I was ready to hunt her down and beat her up - after all, she posted a pic of her home.
I'm joking Addie!
My daughter and her family are going to NYC the first week of October, and I'm sure they will go visit ground zero again. 
Beautiful pics.
I'm from the "Land of Pleasant Living" K- girl.
Born a Baltimoron and now live south of the big city.
Here are a couple of pics of my home in the winter.
And remember if you hop in your car and head this way we have crabs in the summer and you're welcome to join us in that delicacy.
Wasn't there some rivalry between the Chrysler Building and the Empire State building about which was going to be the higher and they stuck a spire on one of them to make it a higher building?
