Close enough to peak

Bountiful. Should we continue our streak of visiting the beautiful grounds of the Heritage Museums and Gardens, my dear wife Karen and I wondered shortly after we arrived for this year’s Cape Cod getaway. Her phone told her that the rhododendrons were near peak. Happy path. You know we went to the beautiful walking paths…

Can’t leave the flower grounds just yet

Because my dear wife Karen and I saw so much during our walk around the Heritage Museums and Gardens grounds in Sandwich, Mass., I offer this extra potpourri of photographs, many of which Karen’s good eye coaxed an elbow and a <em>take that!>/em>. Sturdy colors abounded the straight and narrow choice. Delicious bits of subtle…

Art for a great cause

All of the outdoor exhibits my dear wife Karen and I came upon during our walk of the gorgeous grounds at the Heritage Museums and Art in Sandwich, Mass., were fashioned from recycled materials. I think they are the works from genius minds. The second lives of these materials truly shine, yes? I could have…

Way back when on the Cape

Little by little, more folks brought hustle and bustle to these Massachusetts shores by the sea. The folks at the Heritage Museums and Gardens allowed curators to gather a path of knowledge for walkers to look and learn in the middle of the grounds in Sandwich, Mass. My dear wife Karen soaked it all in…

Even past peak, the rhododendrons shine for us

My dear wife Karen and I decided a return to the Rhodendron Festival of Sandwich, Mass., for our second year running was a must. Well actually we walked the paths of the beautiful grounds of the Heritage Museums and Gardens. Took our time. I snapped away on my iPhone.Even though we were just a year…

Amid the flowers, a toy exhibit

A big barn on the Heritage Museum grounds in Sandwich, Mass., held a well-appointed History of Toys exhibit. The early tricycle looked to George Three and I as if it would fit perhaps a 2-year-old of today’s size. Maybe. I cheered the big mind who gave us Monopoly. Spying on the big wall collage the…

The festival windmill and more slayed me

Smack dab in the middle of the flowers that made the Rhododendron Festival so memorable sat a windmill. A plaque explained it. I did not make it to the plaque as my fellow visitors were ahead of my lingering self at this point. Also extremely cool were the Lego creatures dotted throughout the grounds, including…

The Rhododendron Festival makes me curious

As we walked the grounds of the Rhododendron Festival in Sandwich, Mass., I thought and thought. Why do some plants indigenous to this are have flowers so big? While others right beside it are far less bulky? What are these hanging pods that might or might not be fruit? Why don’t we in the land…

A flowery festival makes us very happy

My terrific daughter Elisabeth doesn’t just visit a new place. She investigates what’s what. So she saw on the interwebs that the Rhododendron Festival would be in full bloom in the deliciously named town of Sandwich. After some back-and-forth, I went online and purchased our tickets for the Sunday before Memorial Day. Oh, what a…