King Arthur Movie Tristan

THE SUN just touched the morning;

The morning, happy thing,

Supposed that he had come to dwell,

And life would be all spring.



She felt herself supremer,—

A raised, ethereal thing;

Henceforth for her what holiday!

Meanwhile, her wheeling king



Trailed slow along the orchards

His haughty, spangled hems,

Leaving a new necessity,—

The want of diadems!



The morning fluttered, staggered,

Felt feebly for her crown,—

Her unanointed forehead

Henceforth her only one.



-Emily Dickinson













This concludes my Lake George Wordless Wednesday posts. I do miss this place!

Fireworks Cruise on Lake George at night.











View from the top of the boat.








Sorry about the photo quality, some of these were taken with my iTouch.








Dancing and live music inside the boat. I pulled my hubby on the dance floor and we boogied to cheesey yet fun dance hits like Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive.








I'll be back tomorrow with my review of The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer. Enjoy your day :)

I KNOW a place where summer strives

With such a practised frost,

She each year leads her daisies back,

Recording briefly, “Lost.”



But when the south wind stirs the pools

And struggles in the lanes,

Her heart misgives her for her vow,

And she pours soft refrains



Into the lap of adamant,

And spices, and the dew,

That stiffens quietly to quartz,

Upon her amber shoe.

-Emily Dickinson













These photos were taken at Prospect Mountain in Lake George.

Before I start my 'not so wordless wednesday' post, can I just say that Lake George is my new favorite place? I spent a week there with my family and we had a wonderful time.



I recommend going here at least once! Especially to families with children. There's lots to do and see.


Our cabin was right on the lake and we had quite the view. The water was chilly, but since we had a heat wave it was nice and refreshing.





The place where we stayed was family oriented and private. Our neighbors were all very nice. I met a few fellow book lovers, one who loved Stephen King and Dean Koontz.
He, my son and I had a nice chat, since my son brought along my copy of Everything's Eventual.



One of the mothers was reading Bringing Up Girls: Practical Advice and Encouragement for Those Shaping the Next Generation of Women and highly recommended it to me.



Plenty of times we had the lake to ourselves.






We spent great quality time together. My son and I would take a kayak out every morning where he would try to paddle out faster despite my asking him to slow down. After I got used to it however, I said 'what the heck' and let him set the pace. The kayaks, rowboats and lifevests were all provided, so it was perfect.












We went horseback riding. This is Domino. It was my first time on a horse.



Domino definitely sensed I was a rookie, and he didn't want to take my commands as we trecked through a trail in the woods for about 45 minutes. Let me mention, it wasn't a flat terrain. There were small hills involved.



Whenever I tried to reign him in so he'd slow down, Domino would toss his head back as if to shrug me off. If I tried to steer him left or right, he'd also shrug me off. Domino also decided to stop in the middle of the ride to look out over a downward hill on the side of the trail, as if pondering whether he should bolt or not. Hubby, who was riding on the horse behind me later mentioned that he noticed this as well and thought Domino was going to make a run for it too and that he was glad his horse 'wasn't doing that'. Thanks hun!



I'd say about 5 years were taken off my life due to fear on this horse. I'm proud of myself however for getting on, but it will be my last time! lol See my smile in the photo? That's after the ride was over and it's a 'take my picture fast so I can get off this horse and vomit' smile.

My kids and hubby enjoyed their rides. My daughter rode a pony named Molly. My son rode a horse named Sam and hubby got on a large horse named Duke.

Hello everyone. I'm baaaaack ;)



I've got tons of catching up to do as far as blogging and reviewing goes, so you'll see me around the blog-o-sphere.
Tomorrow my review of Sons and Princes by James Lepore will be up. I finished reading this one while on vacation.







My week away with my family was fantastic. We spent the week at beautiful Lake George in Upstate NY and have completely fallen in love with the place. We hope to make it our yearly summer vacation spot. It was the perfect family vacation and we got to spend lots of quality time together. The photo above was our view every morning from the cabin on the lake. (click on the photo to get a better view, the picture really doesn't do it justice) I took nearly 300 photos. I hope to feature some on my Wordless Wednesday posts.


I hope everyone is well and enjoying their summer and their reading.