The first stop this year on the CT Wine Trail – Hopkins Vineyard. Love this place.

Did a little waterfall sightseeing as well…

Knowing the Perseid Meteor Shower was supposed to peak last night, a few friends and I packed into my brothers car and took the hour long drive up to a field in Goshen, CT to watch the show from one of the darkest night skies in the state.  I didn't get the shots I had hoped for, but it was still a great time, and I did catch a meteor or two.

Here's a pretty interesting documentary about the mysterious demolition of a carousel at the abandoned Pleasure Beach in Bridgeport. The film is still in a "rough cut" stage but I thought it was good enough to share. It was filmed and directed by Peter Vandall, a film student SVA in NYC.  You can see some of his other work at http://petevandall.com. For a bit of history about Pleasure Beach click here.

My brother Kevin and I took the weekend to drive up to what we were told was Moose Country – the Great North Woods region of northern New Hampshire. We stopped at a few spots in the White Mountains along the way. While no moose were ever found, we still had a great time.