Before the Mill

I took you to our viewing of the new Tri Century Mill complex yesterday —  new in its present form — but it wasn't our first stop on Monday. I wrote about the mill first, before this post, because in my tiny mind, it seemed to be very connected to our anniversary weekend, but I think this first photo op was also pretty darn good.

Before we got to yesterday's mill, we had to pass the old garden and the river. We had gone to the river to satisfy Sue's need for her photo of the day. Her theme was swell, and she thought that she might be able to use the swelling waves in that section of the river. I am not sure if she did or not.

First things first, however: we stopped to examine the remnants of the garden by the abandoned shop, the shop that I think had been an antique store. Whoever ran that shop had, apparently loved spring flowers. That is where I find crocuses and scillia every spring. Indeed I posted of them several times in April.

We wondered if anything else had come up and were delighted to find both tulips and grape hyacinths. Isn't that wonderful for the bulbs to come up year after year, long after after the humans have moved on?

Anyway, I have a few photos in passing, first, the whole patch and then a couple of closer shots.

The river lies on just the other side of the building, so we moved down the slope, and Sue did her thing.

I composited two other Sue photos into one. It's fun to play.

We continued our stroll around by the mill. We went in, and you know that story already, but both the mill and the flowers on the so-far warmest day of the year completed our anniversary weekend very well indeed.