Two days of sun has resulted in nearly (but not absolutely) all of the snow disappearing from the streets of Salem, so finally I am able to show you colors other than white. It is an early New England spring, so the predominant color out there is brown, and there remain several hills of dirt-covered snow out at the Willows–a striking reminder of just how much of the white stuff we received in February. It will be interesting to see when those hills actually melt: I’m thinking June! But I’ve decided not to show you those: they are impressive, but so dirt-covered they look like actual hills emerging from a muddy parking lot–not pretty. This was a pretty weekend, so I want to capture it by showing pretty (and very random) pictures of things I saw around town as I was simply walking around in the sun, like everyone else, noticing things I had not seen for months. First–one last image of predominate white: it was definitely a cats-seeking-sun kind of weekend.
A Federal Street cat and rope wreath; the First Muster commemoration on Salem Common, colorful houses off the Common and Bridge Street; the view from a Salem Willows house.
April 13th, 2015 at 9:06 am
It’s so pretty there. I really need to take a weekend road trip to see it in person. Beautiful pictures!
April 13th, 2015 at 11:31 am
We’d love to have you!
April 13th, 2015 at 11:57 am
I’ve wanted to visit my whole life, but Hocus Pocus (which I have seen at least 100 times) (that is NOT an exaggeration) really locked it in for me. One of these days . . .
April 13th, 2015 at 1:44 pm
That was filmed right outside my house–kept me up all night!
April 13th, 2015 at 1:50 pm
How fun! It’s my favorite guilty pleasure.
April 13th, 2015 at 9:07 am
Lovely pictures as always. I saw that pile of snow when at the Willows on Sunday, I think that parking lot will be muddy with melting most of the summer.
April 13th, 2015 at 11:30 am
I agree–huge!
April 13th, 2015 at 10:22 am
Love the kitten snap!
April 13th, 2015 at 11:30 am
Cats are always crowd-pleasers!
April 13th, 2015 at 6:12 pm
We are in cherry blossoms galore down here in DC but by the time you folks get there, we will, of course, be locked into our suffocating heat and humidity 🙂 so no need to envy…
April 13th, 2015 at 8:45 pm
It’s true–I don’t envy DC’s humidity, but you do have lovely springs.
April 20th, 2015 at 9:59 am
That orange house is my old house on Forrester Street. It’s funny because it was pumpkin orange with flat green trim when we bought it in 1992 and we painted it a very light taupe with the trim colors that it has now… the current owners went back to the orange, which quite honestly kind of baffles me?
April 20th, 2015 at 1:12 pm
I like it–it’s not TOO orange! Not as much land as you have now, I expect?
April 20th, 2015 at 9:03 pm
It’s definitely a few shades lighter than it was when we lives there. I spent several years figuring out what to change it to before we had it painted so it’s funny to see it back to that color family. And yes, we have a much bigger yard now.