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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...