I love, love, love taking photos of sunsets -- here is the one we had here on Friday night, it was spectacular.

The view from the fire escape...

The view from the balcony..

xoxo jess

June 29, 2009

Governors Island

Governors Island is a small island not far from Manhattan

that use to be used by the Defense force and then the Coast Guard.

It was sold to New York City for $1 in 2003!

It was abandoned in 1996 and recently opened to the public

as some sort of national trust space, a lot of it is still very neglected

and you cannot enter many of the buildings, but they have cleared

bike paths around the island and what not! SO Mum, Dad and I

caught the train into the city, the subway to battery park and then

the ferry across to the island and had a good look around!

It was a nice ride around the island, from one side you had a

great view of the statue of liberty, and the other side lower

manhattan (wall street) area. There are replica canons in the old

fort, a prison and lots of houses and the like!

Housing for the captains and their families

Mum being the statue of liberty! The actual statue is really small in the back of the photo.

Me on my bike, I smacked my leg on the tray and that back and now have a STUNNING bruise on my leg! Silly me...

Dad and a canon (see the buildings of Manhattan in the background?)

The prison - i decided this is where the Zombies lived...it was creepy!

A rusty door on the prison

Looking up at Lower Manhattan

Paterson Falls

On Saturday we took Diana and went on an adventure to a town not far from us that use to be a thriving area, with several mills, electric generators, a silk factory and an assortment of other factories. Unfortunately it is no longer such a thriving area, but they do still have this waterfall in the middle of it!

The falls with an electricity generating plant on the left of the picture

Mum, Dad and Diana

Diana and I - before she hated me for taking her to her surprise party! haha...

The Falls themselves

Hope all is well,

lots of love

jess xoxo

June 25, 2009

Hi Everyone!

How are you all? Good I do hope! This week Dad and I took Mum to Lancaster County in Pennsylvania -- known for the Amish Culture.

As always we had a lovely time, it is very peaceful and quiet there, the land is very fertile so the farms flourish. Not to mention the simply amazing quilts and the like available and of course WHOOPIE PIES! haha.

While we were there we went and played mini-golf on this course with waterfalls and fish and little rivers, it was very pretty! There is, of course, lots of photos below!

Hope alls well with you all,

Lots of love,

jess xoxo

Self Explanatory -- buggy ahead sign!

Dad at a farm that served ice-cream!

Mum and her ice-cream!

Mum and I being berries! hehe.

Dad playing put-put

Mum on the golf course!

My sweater matched my ball...haha...

The mini golf course we played on

Mum is very excited about her shot!

Farm!

Tree (I know my commentary is just stunning!)

Two photos of me in one blog?!? What's going on here?!?

Mum and Dad in front of a Covered Bridge

Cows! Nan - this is like the photo i (tried) to paint for you right?!? haha...

Mum took this wonderful photo of a bee on a flower!

Here are some photos from my recent adventure off to see Lina in Montauk. Montauk is at the very end of Long Island - about a 3 hr drive from here, its beautiful! Lovely beaches, QUIET and beautiful scenery and just very different from dirty jerzy! haha. 

Here is a map of where it is, Montauk is where the red A pin is on the map, and you can see New York City in the bottom left hand side of the map. 

Love, jess xoxo