T Stands for Beer, the Beach and A Gingerbread House

 Hi everyone. Happy T day to you.

Last week I had a quiet week to myself, and it was lovely!!!! It's been a busy  summer for me.  A fun summer, but I was really ready for some me time.

And since today is T day, I need a drink photo to join everyone over at Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog. Sadly I didn't stop  to take one single drink photo all week. Let me share  one from a few weeks ago. My husband and I had been out fishing, and afterwards, we went and picked up a mooring at the marina next to a small beach. The only way to get to this beach is by boat or to take a nice long walk through a wooded state park, so it's not like the usual long ocean beach most people think of.

This is the beach. I was more interested in the sky when I took this photo, but you can see the beach.

When the tide is high (as it was on the day I took this next photo-it was when we had the super moon), about half of the beach goes underwater.

Anyhow I am getting off track. After fishing we stopped to have a snack and a beer before we motored back up the river to where we keep the boat. And here's my drink photo for T this week. 

Shed beer is a brown beer brewed by the Shed Brewery in Vermont and is one of the favorites in my house.

I thought today  I would also wrap up a few photos from my last T day post. You might remember  that last week I showed you my walk to and from the ruins at Ashintully Gardens and Ruins. My friend and I had spent an afternoon there when we took a couple of days roadtrip to the southern Berkshires in western Massachusetts a few weeks back.

On our way to and from the gardens, we passed this interesting building. We stopped on our way back towards town.

 

The name sign said Santarella. Although this place looks a little worse for wear, especially the roof which looked in bad shape, it is still an eye catching piece of architecture. 

It's too bad the grounds weren't open to the public, as they sound interesting with those gardens and turrets. You can just make out the peak of one turret from the front. We could only park along the road and view this facade. I bet a lot of passers by stop. When we stopped there were 3 other cars of people who had also stopped.  

It would be a shame to think of this structure being ruined by a leaky roof and lack of care. I bet it costs a fortune to fix that roof though. In this next photo you can see the roof up close. There's sure a lot of shingles on it.

Here's 3 other photos I found online as I was trying to discover more about this property. This first photo is what the inside of the studio (now function hall) looks like. The is the inside of the building you see in my photos.

And the plaque outside said there were gardens. I found these photos of of the grounds online.

I would have loved to see more, and maybe in the future people will be able to.

That's all for me this week. 

Have a nice T day and week ahead.