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safety pin
This little kid’s parent must have had a previous bad experience with that wee kilt: see how it’s safety pinned to the shirt? Even at an outdoor festival, it’s important to maintain a certain level of decorum. Or something.
But anyway, the kid and the sheep (who were queued up for their turn at the sheep dog trials) were checking each other out.
New Hampshire Highland Games and Festival
Lincoln, New Hampshire
photographed 9.19.2025
every flower is a soul
New England was so pretty – there were trees (some already with leaves changing into their autumn clothes), wild ferns (here in my part of Texas, ferns are a houseplant) growing happily in the woods, and colorful flowers (whose names I had to look up when I got home*).
So all in all, I was glad that my flight home arrived after dark so I was not immediately confronted with a view that included none of what I’d seen in New England.
Newburyport, Massachusetts
photographed 9.18.2025
*I feel like the only person in the world that didn’t know that was a dahlia.




