A favorite anthology of poetry I love is called Celebrate America in Poetry in Art. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution edited by Nora Panzer
This book takes American poetry selections and matches them with American art into a visual and poetic tribute to our country. Here is one sample from the book:
painting is Cowboy Dance by Jenne Magafan
The Wheel
For Robert Penn Warren
At the first strokes of the fiddle bow
the dances rise from their seats.
The dance begins to shape itself
in the crowd, as couples join,
and couples join couples, their movement
together lightening their feet.
They move in the ancient circle
of the dance. The dance and the song
call each other into being. Soon
they are one-rapt in a single
rapture, so that even the night
has its clarity, and time
is the wheel that brings it round.
In this rapture the dead return.
Sorrow is gone from them.
They are light. They step
into the steps of the living
and turn with them in the dance
in the sweet enclosure
of the song, and timeless
is the wheel that brings it round.
-Wendell Berry
I always research everything about an area before we ever take a trip. It drives 
Since we were there in early April I couldn't enjoy the ripened blueberries or the orchards surrounding it ready to bear fruit, but just the view was spectacular. 
My Reuben sandwich was the best. and we even got homemade french fries. We were so full from lunch we took our homemade pie home to the tent trailer to eat later. The homemade pie is also to die for. The photographs under the glass on the tables are collections of family members through the years. 
Here is another view of the the rows of blueberries waiting for the snow to melt and the weather to warm.
How fitting that this plant is called snow in summer. I don't know if we will ever see the white flowers that make it look like snow in summer. Right now I guess a better name is snow in spring. No more snow in the forecast... but the temperatures will still stay cool all week. At least the girls didn't come to school today wearing flip flops! To find other weekend snapshots go 
