Each October, I vacation in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Although the colors this year are subdued due to the dry conditions this summer, it's still a glorious place to come, to enjoy the mountains, and the cool crisp October air. The weather is likely to be cloudy most of the week, and temps have been in the single-digits at the summit (though they've been in the 50's in the valley), so I don't know that I'll get my hoped-for kilted photo at the top of Mount Washington this year.

However, I did get out and about to some of my usual haunts, and had a couple wonderful encounters with some tourists in the area, who asked for photos. At the top of Cathedral Ledge (a granite cliff face popular with free climbers and ropers), I was first approached by a pair of nice ladies from Taiwan. One of them spoke very little English, and although I was happy to pose for photos with them, I felt the language barrier was too much to ask that they also take shots with my own camera. Not long after, as I was returning to my vehicle, I was again approached, this time by a couple from England. We chatted about many things, from Haggis, to the port wine casks used to age whiskey, to the story of my Sgian Dubh, and the particulars of my kilt. The woman asked her husband to take a photo of she and I. I asked the gentleman to take a similar shot with my own camera.

This first photo is my first attempt to stitch several shots together into a panoramic view from the top of Cathedral Ledge.



Here's the photo of the English woman and myself, that her husband was kind enough to take.



Hopefully, by Thursday, the weather will have improved as cloud cover dissipates some, and more photo ops materialize. Then it's off to the Boston area Friday evening, for a visit with my brother, before returning to Ohio on Sunday.