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"Winter is the 'secret season' in the Lakes Region - because not everyone knows of its quiet charm. But fortunate are those who've enjoyed the excitement of skiing, snowboarding or tubing at Gunstock. Happy are those who have been gliding on cross-country skis across frozen Squam Lake or crunching on snowshoes up one of the Ossipee Mountains. Satisfied are those who've augured through the ice on Lake...

... but things have been a bit busy lately. It's likely due - as it may be for you - to the "holidays". How has something that's meant to emphasize the simple joys of our lives in the Lakes Region become so hectic? I'd like to think it's because we want to share the good times with good friends and family - and we have TOO MANY of those people. In any case, some thoughts have rolled by as we've all...

Great News from The Mill Fudge Factory - Grand Opening in Manchester Next Week!(from their Facebook page:)Come join us in celebrating the Grand Opening of The Mill Fudge Factory's 2nd location inside the new Mill Town Market, located in the bustling downtown of Manchester, NH next to Margaritas restaurant.The celebration is part of three businesses opening in downtown Manchester!"We are bringing retail...

 And so it goes.... As soon as the Columbus Day visitors are gone, the leaves start turning their lovely browns, golds and yellows. Unusually late - and somewhat muted since the recent inclement weather has already stripped some trees before we had the chance to see their vibrant metamorphosis. And the "people" are now gone too - as the Lakes Region gets ready for its annual shift from summer...

For a long time, we always assumed the local business community had some kind of special agreement with the Creator.Seemed like no matter what the weather was between Memorial Day and mid-October, sometime during Columbus Day weekend our red maples, beautiful beech trees and colorful fruit trees would bust out in their full autumn regalia - flaming reds, pure yellows, and sparkling crunchy browns...

This is the time of year when the Lakes Region of New Hampshire becomes a palette of both colors and textures. The last few days, grey skies gave us downpours that drenched the deck of the M/S Mount Washington as it sat at the Weirs Beach dock. And soft showers only added to the small lakes that cornered some street in Laconia and some of the bigger towns. Today we saw some blue skies....

When you live in a lovely place like the Lakes Region, you sometimes come upon unexpected blessings... Like a friend who calls you up at 5 p.m. one September night and tells you he has two tickets to tonight's Red Sox game. You scramble over to his house and drive madly down to Derry, NH, to pick up the tickets from the friends who couldn't use them, then onto Fenway Park. Not long afterwards, you’re...

Mark Twain's famous expression - "If you don't like the weather in New England, wait a few minutes." - certainly applies over the last six or seven days. We've gone from thick humidity with motorcycles once again roaming our roads and people dressed only in shorts and t-shirt to today: rainy, dark skies obscuring the sun, and a coolish air that speaks of rougher days ahead... At least its making...

Along the Winni River this week, a special community gathered to commemorate a loss... http://www.citizen.com/news/laconia_region/laconia/article_29b2a29c-e8bf-11e0-9c6a-0019bb30f31a.h...

When we got out of church this morning, the thermometer in the car read "87." It wasn't really that hot. The car was in the sun, and after a few minutes the reading dropped to around 78.But it was still hot. Windows-opened, shorts-wearing, drink-lots-of-fluids, easy-to-slip-into-a-Sunday-nap hot. We've been in the Lakes Region for for almost 20 years, looking over Lake Winnipesaukee and...

"Around noon on Thursday, I parked my car by Meredith Bay to eat lunch. I left the windows open. It was warm, almost 70-degrees, but a cool breeze keeps the muggy feeling away."The sky was a grey ceiling just over the treetops. A soft shower bloomed widening circles on the lake. It was peaceful and quiet. There were few cars around - so different from the crowds who filled the area...

"Awoke around 3 o'clock this morning because the room was warm. Opened the window and put my hand up. The warmth that covered the area was still here, and a soft spring-like rain was falling, the gentle bouncing of the drops off the leaves... Opened the window wider, and went back to be...

For a small city, Laconia has some pretty nice coffee options. Awakenings, by the post office, has already won NH magazine's "Best of the Area" award several times, and now there's that new place on Rte. 3 in Winnisquam I hear good things about - and I haven't even tried yet... But have you stopped by Annie's Cafe & Catering on Union Ave yet? It's in the same complex as Subway's...

If you've never seen New Hamphsire native and storyteller Rebecca Rule, you've got to keep your eye out for her next appearance in the Lakes Region. She was at the Corner Meeting House in Belmont Friday night... We didn't go since we had seen her last year at the Meredith Historical Society meeting. But our friend Kelly was there and he loved her. She's a little ‘rough’, using the kind cuss words...

Summer is so much at the heart of life in the Lakes Region, we hate to see it go... The last few nights have been very chilly but it looks like we're going to have one last burst of summer warmth later this we...

"Autumn usually means a return to day-to-day. It’s back to school, back to work, back to the humdrum of daily living."Not in the Lakes Region – when the colors return. Columbus Day is when they’re usually at their peak but they start long before that. First one tree shows some yellow. Then a dash of orange appears along the side of the road. Then the maples burst out in flames. And finally everything...