Strictly speaking, this is not a door or a window, but it is OPEN – so it’s like a gateway to the bakery. I enhanced the saturation of the colors in Photoshop.

We were able to visit the original home of the Allaire family. As I said on a previous post, we were not allowed to photograph inside, but here’s the doorway to that interesting home. It was said to still be inhabited by a descendant of the original Allaire founder in the 1950′s, and that 1950′s owner kept a horse in his kitchen. Eccentric.

This was a vertical photo, so I increased the canvas size to make it horizontal, and then I used the clone stamp tool and the blur tool to get the main part of the photo to extend a bit into the side areas.

What is that white board that looks like a door but is curiously up too high to be a door? Where there once steps there? I didn’t notice this until today, when I was looking through these photos. Does that happen to you; do you find mysteries in your photos that you didn’t recognize when you were on the scene?

These are windows in the train of the Pine Creek Railroad, which is next to the Historical Village. The train ride just goes around in circles, but we did get to see some deer as we circled about.

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Another version: this one shows more color and detail, especially of the foliage behind the train.

And here’s the caboose at the train’s end, turning the corner.

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Allaire Historical Village, New Jersey

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Carpenter Shop Sign against Fall Foliage, Allaire Historical Village

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Elsewhere in the Blogosphere

• Mother in Israel talks about L**E (and no, that is not the end of a Beatles song as in “All You Need is …”)
• How to Make a Sourdough Starter is featured on Cooking Manager. If/when I do this, I will take photos…
• Mimi has been doodling around with sourdough.
• Ilana-Davita talks about attempts at going greener.
• Mrs. S. thanks the nursery school teachers. For teaching kids about white wagtails. And a little more.
• There was an NYC Blogger Meet this past week. I wonder how it went…
• On my Tech Blog, I’m talking about Research via Twitter: hashtags and email marketing services.

I am planning to do another one of those “What Do You See” posts this weekend. And I may participate in the Weekend Reflections meme.

Woodworking Shop in Allaire Historic Village, New Jersey

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Allaire State Park - Re-enactment of vote of 1836

The actors played their roles with great oomph and and in an impromptu fashion – they talked directly to the audience (there was no stage, and we were part of the show). The boy on the right was handing out blue ballots for his party, and he handed them only to the men in our party (my husband and a friend), but not to the women. I joked that I could influence my husband’s vote by telling him for whom to vote. My daughter and her friend, however, wanted the pink ballot party to win, no matter what the agenda, so they kept sneaking into the building to cast ballots for the pink party. They succeeded once or twice, but they also got caught and got a good “scolding” – all in good fun.

I wasn’t allowed to photograph the insides of the Allaire Village buildings – too bad, there was a lot of good history. We took the short train ride near the village at the end of our day. I’ll post the train another day, but here’s a great ghoulish guy at the train stop. He’s just there around Halloween time, have no fear.

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