Anniversary Tea and Sandwiches in Sandwich, MA

While our anniversary has moved since we got married, I still like to celebrate our 'original' anniversary. I don't need an excuse to day trip!

We headed to Sandwich on Cape Cod to have afternoon tea and take in the sea airs. The weather actually cooperated and the earth was in bloom.  

We cruised the colonial (early American) sites, like this grist mill from the revolutionary days that still grinds corn in season to this day. 

It was warm enough I only had to wear three layers. Success.

We had tea at Dunbar Tea Room which is housed in a carriage house of a colonial home from the mid-1700's. We took no time before diving in...

After tea we headed to the Sandwich glass museum to see a glassblowing demonstration. 

Whilst in the neighborhood we came across a turkey vulture plucking at a cute fuzzy thing. Everything's got to eat and he was quite the majestic creature.

Before leaving the cape we stopped at the shore and walked the longest boardwalk in the history of boardwalks:

...finally the Atlantic lay before us. Beautiful, windswept, and cold - as usual!

We'll always have spring in Boston

 They always say it’s springtime in Paris to dream of, but the arrival of the sun in Boston is pretty spectacular too. In the Boston Gardens, tulips reign supreme:

Every space unoccupied by stone or metal is awash in new green and fluttering colors. Boston is a city that respects and guards it’s green-space and does not skimp on showcasing it in the Gardens, the Commons, the Emerald necklace, and along sidewalks and down medians throughout downtown. The flowering trees rain petals softly over passersby:

And finally, amongst the noise and the traffic, the trains and the rushing urbanity of it all, comes the wildlife:

Bunnies may not count as big game to anyone, but the rabbits and the squirrels, the fearless raccoons and the rare bear keeps nature in Boston just in case us people start to think we’ve got it sorted.