Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Quilts, the town of Lowell, the bridge





Today we drove over to Lowell so that Clara could visit the Quilting Museum of New England. Our first impression was that Lowell is a very old town, notice the old bricks making up the street – it was really rough to drive on.

The Museum featured many 1800's quilts which had surprisingly modern/progressive features that she thought were new in the "modern" era! Then she went over to the Brush Gallery and saw some ultra-neat contemporary quilts (that were also quite expensive.) You can see pictures of some of the quilts at http://www.quiltart.com/q2102.html

While she was ooohing and aaahing over quilts, I went grocery shopping -- which turned out to be quite an excursion. The streets in Lowell are like nowhere else I've ever been in that nothing runs straight, there are no two parallel streets, there's a one-way street and its opposite-way partner ends up somewhere else entirely. It took me hours just to get from here to there . . .

Tonight we're in Bourne, MA almost under the Bourne Bridge
over the Cape Cod Canal. Tomorrow we'll go out onto the Cape for some quilt shops out there, lunch at the place that Judy recommended for us where we'll be meeting our friends from Carlsbad, NM again. Then, who knows?

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