A lovely trip to Kings Landing..

Good Evening everyone.. 

Welcome to the Blessed Hearth tonight.. 

I have been pretty slow getting back to you but I do have a little bit of a special post for you.. 

Terry and I took a little day trip up to my very favourite village on Thursday.. 

Just to warn you this is a bit of picture heavy post but there is just so much to grab one's imagination ... 

So many beautiful scenes, lovely vignettes, homes and gardens to capture with the camera... 

I am no professional for sure but what a lovely place.. 

Kings Landing... 

The most lovely of New Brunswick's tourist attractions in my humble opinion.. 

A little historical village on the banks of the beautiful St. John River... 

A place and time where my heart belongs... 

Come along... 

Wait up Terry... 

I have to get my camera ready.. 

We are on our way to the Killeen Cabin... 

But the farmer boy has to admire the livestock... 

Cute, eh!  

Terry, I mean.. lol... 

There is the St. John River... 

We went into the dear little church... 

I remember pews like this.. 

Do you?  

And here we are at the Killeen place.. 

The lady of the house had just made an apple crisp.. 

It smelled lovely!  

She also gave a little lesson on making beeswax candles.. 

She used equal amounts of beef tallow and beeswax and dipped the candle wicking into lukewarm wax and kept dipping until they were large enough to hang.. 

She had an open fire, a table and chairs and a bench in her cabin.. 

Also their big bed and a trundle bed for the baby.. 

A lovely visit with lots of home schoolers visiting and learning to make candles... 

The village was lovely on this sunny warm day.. 

We will head over to the store.. 

Terry noticed the geese over across the way.. 

Such a nice walk.. 

Here is the store.. 

Lots of beautiful dishes and antiques to see and drool over.. grin.. 

Outside is where the horses trough is.. 

Here are some pics from inside the houses.. 

A quilt on the go.. 

I so love all of their plants.. 

They are in every house and window sill.  

I believe this is a Maple Plant.. 

My Dad used to have one.. 

All kinds of wonderful handiwork going on in each house.. 

And cooking of course.  

This looks like a bowl that I keep on my counter.. 

Garlic, shallots, herbs.... 

New potatoes ....

Homemade Vinegar

The lady of the house invited me to smell them.. 

Chive, real cider vinegar from their own apple press, rose vinegar and herb... 

I have been busy making mine, too.. 

I have rose, different herb ones, lavender and hot pepper.. 

Oh and chive, too... 

They always inspire me to make and do.. 

Tea towels on the clothes line.. 

So homely... Is that a word?  grin.. home like... 

At another the lady was putting together a bouquet of dried flowers.. 

So pretty... 

I tried to grow straw flowers this summer but they didn't grow.. 

I so love them.. 

A dear garden...

Every home has a touch of flowers.. 

Beautiful!

I have two favourite houses.. 

This is one.. 

The Morehouse....

I love the summer kitchen.. 

They always seem to have so much going on in this house.. 

One time the Keepers of the Home went up on a cold fall day.. 

They invited all of us to sit down and gave us fresh hot apple pie and a cup of tea.. 

It was so nice!  

Just love seeing all that they dry... 

This is the side porch on the Ingraham house... 

Every home has a Pregnant Onion plant.. 

One time they gave me a slip and I now have several plants.. 

Just grabs your heart all of this simple beauty... 

Well we need to head back up the road.. 

Don't you just love seeing sheep?  

We need to wash up as dinner is on at the Kings Head Inn... 

We always have lunch here before we leave... 

Terry had the Ploughman's Lunch and I had Salmon Cakes and Salad... 

We got to talking to people at the next table and I forgot to take a pic.. sorry.. 

They were from Grand Manan and so interesting.. 

Then a drive back to the car... 

Just a lovely lovely day.. 

My favourite trip all summer..  

Hope you enjoyed our little day trip.. 

Thanks for stopping by.. 

Next time I will share some of our daily doings and I am putting together a post of windows from the village.. 

God bless you dear hearts and I look forward to hearing from you.. 

xo