Ava Marie Handmade Chocolates and Ice Cream

Peterborough, NH - My wife and I took a side trip to Peterborough from the Keene Pumpkin Festival. We saw Ava Marie Chocolates and Ice Cream and decided to have some Ice Cream.


This is the counter for Ice Cream and also chocolate of course.


Finally, an Ice Cream store that is not afraid to give you a good amount of ice cream, this is a regular size...and I all about the volume. If you visit Peterburough, definately stop by for some ice cream or chocolate. Here is there website for more info. Ava Marie


The candy side of the house.


Best Chocolate Turtles in New Hampshire.


This guy must have been eating diet chocolate he looks a bit thin.

Keene Pumpkin Festival - 2011

Keene, NH - My wife and I brought the boys up to Keene New Hampshire today to see the Keene Pumpkin Festival. Well, the boys actually stayed in the car while we went to the festival. (for new readers, the "boys" are my dogs). This is the main tower of jack-o-lanterns which were all lit up by the time we got there, which was about dusk. It seemed to me there were not quite as many pumpkins as last year.


This year they had another tower of jack-o-laterns, maybe this is why I thought there were less pumpkins, spread out more.


A close-up view of tower 2, hey that rhymes, I'm a poet and don't know it.


A cat pumpkin.



Dracula pumpkin


All along Main Street are these racks full of pumpkins.


Pumpkin Head here was walking up the street and people would pose with him.

Cross at the Cathedral of the Pines

I will try to post more on this tomorrow but for Easter I wanted to post this cross with Mt.Monadnock in the background.

Horses on the Beach

Seabrook, NH - While I was in Seabrook I noticed about a dozen horses on the beach. Since there was a sign that dogs are not allowed on the beach,I would not think horses would be. Maybe animals are not allowed in the summer? Anyway, it seems like a cool thing to do, run your horses down the beach.


Here is the meeting of some horses.

That's a Lotta' Crab Legs

West Swanzey, NH - I was driving down the road in West Swanzey, NH and I noticed this guy, perched on the roof of Nick's Restaurant. Do you think they have crab on the menu?


Nick's sign out front.

Keene Pumpkin Festival

Keene, NH - A few weeks ago I went to the 20th anniversary Keene Pumpkin Festival. Every year they try to beat the record of the most Jack O'lanterns in one place, so far they broke the record eight times. This year they had 22,943 pumpkins; the record is held by Boston with 30,128 set in 2006. This is the tower of pumpkins at the end of the street.


This is the big pumpkin at the top of the tower.


It is encouraged to bring carved pumpkins to add to the count.


If you didn't bring your own pumpkin, you can buy one at the festival.


I think this one had too much to drink.


This very large pumpkin was carved into an old man.


A Moon Face pumpkin.


I took this photo with this gentleman next to it so you can get an idea of the size.


A Pumpkin Totem.


Teapot Pumpkin.

I took many photos at the festival, too many to choose just a few. Tomorrow I will post more.