Washington Crossing State Park, Young Soldiers, Bluebirds and A Soaring Eagle

With my guest, Pat, visiting this past weekend  it seemed to make a lot of sense to take her to the Sheep Shearing event right down the road at  Washington Crossing State Park.

I have never been and it was very interesting.  The kids that came by the busloads were very well behaved.  They learned what it was like to be a soldier during the REVOLUTION.

 

 

They watched demonstrations.

Sheep Shearing and Bread Making

 

 

 

 

We got lucky and were given a private tour of the Thompson-Neely House

 

Our luck continued when we walked over to the Soldiers Graves along the canal

and bluebirds were staking out there home.

Then WE REALLY GOT LUCKY.

  As we sat on a bench chatting and eating our peanut butter and jelly

sandwiches I felt a shadow cross over my body...

.I looked up to the sky and saw the flared out white feathers of a......

 

 

YUP AN EAGLE.....it was a beautiful thing.