This butterflie was taken before the thunderstorms. It down pour and we had hail. some of our plants fell over from the rain. Some people on our street lost power Friday night. We didn't. I went out at 10:15pm and I could not believe how many trees went down on Lake Street.
Crawford Notch is the steep and narrow gorge of the Saco River in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, located almost entirely within the town of Hart's Location. It was named for Abel Crawford, an explorer, trail-builder and hosteler in the early 19th century.
Tytus and I decided to do a day hike up to the summit of Mt. Willard, which offered us this spectacular view of the notch.
A well-documented historic event within the notch was a rock-slide that killed the entire Willey family in August, 1826. The family fled their home during the storm to a prepared shelter but they were buried by the slide and died in a mass of stone and rubble. Their home was untouched.