My son and I took day trip trip to Lashaska PA, New Hope PA , and Lambertville, NJ on August 4, 2012. We had planned to visit Rice's Flea Market. It is a 30 acre outdoor market that opens on Tuesdays and
Saturdays in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
If I had to compare it to Columbus Auction in New Jersey, my pick would be Columbus Auction. You may find some of the same vendors at Rice's but you will be missing the real interesting cellar, attic or garage clean-outs that you sometimes find at Columbus. I like that type of vendor who has absolutely no organization---just boxes of stuff and they say anything in these boxes @ one dollah!! I am writing this a week later so my memory is fuzzy but let me say that even if I had to account for all the places we stopped on that day it would have been a challenge to me. I know we stopped at Rice's Flea Market, the Golden Nugget Antiques Market in Lambertville and on to other places in Lambertville, Peddler's Village in Lahaska, and a place in New Hope.
Lambertville House Hotel
Near the banks of the Delaware River Lambertville, NJ offers a delightful day trip for people from New Jersey, Philadelphia Area or the New York area. It is historic and picturesque and the beauty continues across the Delaware River into New Hope, PA and Bucks County. Boutique Hotel is pictured above and is listed on the National Registry of Historic
Places. It has been host to celebrities, dignitaries, and government officials since 1812.
The 26 guestrooms reflect the grace of the early 19th century.
Toll taker on the bridge:
Rabbits for sale!
Can't remember the specific place for this one:
Cone flowers:
Would have loved to have purchased
this one for my sister but it was just too pricey:
Bought some beads. But this Asian guy
was very interested in my
Cannon camera with the big lens:
Last time I saw this was about 35 years ago
when my husband and I took my son to Peddler's Village
but today he is the driving me:
Typical road in Bucks County---hilly:
This scene has about twenty-five signs:
We stopped at a scenic rest stop on the Delaware and viewed the water sports. A quick shot through the car window gives evidence that many wealthy people reside in the area.
It finally feels like we have recovered from a "Super Derecho". The memory of the storm is fading as people remove the evidence in the hundreds of downed trees in the area especially in Atlantic County. Many people lost their power for a week. I was one of the lucky ones in Egg Harbor City that only had power out for a day and a half. I got to try my new generator that I bought because of hurricane Irene that caused outages the year before. I am still a bit upset with the TV news weather reporters. Why is it that most of us young and old had never heard of the term derecho? It is only after the fact that they are describing these storms and their attributes and telling us that they are not unheard of even in our area.
Aside from the deaths and home damage, the trees suffered the most. If they were old--- maybe 100 plus years or so--- with rotting problems, they were coming down in the strong winds. Mays Landing, NJ was hit especially hard right near the court house.
Katherine Flegal, 66, of the township’s Weymouth section was
hurt critically when the derecho’s 80-mph winds
brought a large tree down on to her trailer. Police arrived to find
Flegal trapped in her trailer because of the tree. Flegal died from her injuries on July 10, 2012.
Other storm related deaths include business owner Ming Zhen
Chen, 48, of Egg Harbor Township who died during the storm when his boat capsized near the Brigantine Bridge in Absecon Bay. Also,
two children were killed during the derecho when a tree fell on their
tent in the Parvin State Forest in Salem County.
According to the National Weather Service, a
derecho is a gigantic wind storm coupled
with thunderstorms. These are as powerful as tornadoes, but they don’t
twist. They drive in a straight line. They’re described as land
hurricanes because they have wind gusts of at least 58 miles per hour
and higher. They had no reports for severe storms for the South Jersey part of our area that was hardest hit.
Here is a youtube video of the storm's origin in Iowa to New Jersey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lqRDMRmIbo&feature=related
The following photos were from Egg Harbor City. Some found it notable that that one tree missed the blessed Virgin Mary Statue at the St. Nicholas Church.
I remember this sweet girl from my time as a teacher at the Spragg School. It was her mother's car that was smashed by the tree:
A while back I went to Delaware to my cousin's house for a graduation party and to see our favorite Uncle Billy. Sometimes when you take the back roads to the Delaware Memorial Bridge you pass through rural areas that remind you of the South. Most people have an idea of what it is like to be in "Jersey" and it is nothing like what you would see along this route. The main road to the Delaware Memorial Bridge is route 40.
Dairy farms are still to be found along the route as well Cow Town where real rodeos are still held. You will feel like you have stepped back in time and that you are in the South---- but you are still in Joisey!
This Richman's Ice Cream store was quite popular in the 60's. I remember getting a sundae called a Bambrella. It had vanilla ice cream, hot fudge sauce, bananas, whipped cream and pecans. I did not like the other fruits that they have on sundaes. I always felt that bananas were the best match with chocolate. Looks like they are selling plants there now.
Please forgive the quality of these shots because most of them were "drive-by" shots from the car window. This is a small haven for stained glass window hangings:
At the beginning of our road trip we stopped and ate at Pete's Diner in Williamstown and I tried to get a pic of someone I thought was a stranger but my sister Betty knew Ernest Gregori (cousin through marriage) who was about to take off on his Harley.
It was a great day over all but marred by getting lost. Ok, I am over it now, but it is not easy getting along with 3 sisters. One sister was not with us as she now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. May 20012
