How to fill time in retirement

 One of the things I like to do, beyond organizing my own photos, is searching for old photos on the Internet. (Like I need more photos to keep track of, I have over 57,000 I have organized with over 25,000 to review.) I have found some interesting internet sites and one event kind of stood out. This was the 1891 fire that happened in my hometown of Middlebury Vermont. Here is a postcard viewing the falls before the fire. You can see there was a wooden bridge over Otter Creek, On my visit in 2010, I took a similar picture of the falls...now a stone bridge... Looking for information on the fire, I found that the newspaper of the day can be found online and I found this... Although this photo was labeled as 1891, I cannot tell if the bridge is wood or stone. Also, I think the cap on the Battel building on the right was added after they rebuilt. But there are people watching and after the photo I have included an excerpt from the newspaper... This photo was also labeled 1891 and the s...

It was Wednesday, Hump day, and the plan was to do some yard work and than some errands. But it was colder, in the 50s, so I decided to do the errands first. Next thing I knew I was at Brevard Zoo. Because it was now only in the 60s, I figured it would not be crowded. Also I needed to do some walking for exercise. And it was a beautiful sunny day... And the sun allowed me to see my first zebra deer. I took a picture. I showed it to Brevard Zoo workers. A deer with stripes. Well, I guess it was only a fern shadow, but I like it...  The Zoo is fully decorated for the Holidays. Lots of stuff. At the entrance, there was a cute gingerbread man next to a gingerbread house. He did not have zebra stripes. The Zoo is basically a big loop and I usually don't have any set pattern; today I turned left. They have two types of macaws who were using the cooler weather as incentive to clean the feathers. The first loop is Expedition Africa. They do have Zebras and I think there are five now after ...