Framedlight

We walked from the covered bridge a little upstream to the Lower Falls area of the Swift River. It was such a wonderful, blue sky day that unsurprisingly this was busy with people. So again I concentrated on snapping the people rather than the landscape. Although, I maybe should have kept my distance, as the cough I was desperately trying to deny was getting worse. Back in the car and along the highway we came upon a preserved homestead and went to look around. It was also a handy place for lunch. The Russell-Colbath homestead was built in the early 1930's by Thomas Russell and his son Amzi. Thomas operated a local sawmill and there is a little copse we walked around where some of the trees that would have been used for lumber were still standing. Not far from the house, which was not open to the public at the time we were there, was a wonderful barn. This had been built recently to be used for events. There was also a tiny cemetery for the small population that had lived here. The

 I hadn't slept very well but the sun was shining so I got up and went down to the lake a few yards from our glamping hut. It looked beautiful in the early morning light. When I got back the boys were larking about in front of the hut. Mikes idea for the day was to drive the Kancamagus Highway, a 34.5 mile road which runs by the Swift River and  is supposed to offer the best fall colours in the US. We expected it to be busy and there were a fair number of people around but the traffic was reasonably light. Not far from Albany up the Highway was another covered bridge, the Albany Bridge. This crosses the Swift River and was built in 1857, then rebuilt in 1858 after a wind storm. This day was far sunnier than the previous and the superstructure of the bridge cast great shadows on the deck.