Skalkaho Falls with Anne & Scotty
Doe Brothers Restaurant at Philipsburg
Restored Building...Philipsburg
Historic Jail...still in use...has solar panels!!!
Area around Philipsburg
Gem Mountain
Searching for Sapphires
We have really enjoyed having Anne & Scotty here. Dan and Scotty have been working on the myriad things that always need to be fixed when you have a house. Scotty is really a master and Dan is becoming an experienced assistant. We now have 20, 30 and 50 amp hookups for any visiting RV, as well as solutions to the water and sewer connections. There is no way we could have done those things by ourselves.
Friday, to break the all day work hours, we took a drive up to Skalkaho Falls then over to Philipsburg for lunch. After all the stops to look at birds, deer, butterflies, flowers, plants, lakes, trails etc we finally ate lunch at 4 pm. The drive was beautiful up through the Sapphire Mountains and the town of Philipsburg is a real experience. It is a restored 19th century mining town and they have done a wonderful job. Almost all of the downtown is on the National Register of Historic Buildings, and painted in keeping with the period. We had lunch at Doe Brothers which was decorated in 19th century motif. After lunch, we walked around the town admiring all the buildings and flowers [while shaking down our lunch so we had room for ice cream cones] then headed back home.
Along the way we passed Gem Mountain where they mine sapphires. You can buy a bucket of gravel, sluice it in the water to clean it, then pick through and find possible sapphires. Then they will look at your treasures and tell you what they are worth and if the stones are worth doing anything with. We talked about trying our luck but decided to head down the road. Good thing as we didn't get home until 7 as it was and I am sure those buckets of gravel are not designed to make you rich!!
Friday, to break the all day work hours, we took a drive up to Skalkaho Falls then over to Philipsburg for lunch. After all the stops to look at birds, deer, butterflies, flowers, plants, lakes, trails etc we finally ate lunch at 4 pm. The drive was beautiful up through the Sapphire Mountains and the town of Philipsburg is a real experience. It is a restored 19th century mining town and they have done a wonderful job. Almost all of the downtown is on the National Register of Historic Buildings, and painted in keeping with the period. We had lunch at Doe Brothers which was decorated in 19th century motif. After lunch, we walked around the town admiring all the buildings and flowers [while shaking down our lunch so we had room for ice cream cones] then headed back home.
Along the way we passed Gem Mountain where they mine sapphires. You can buy a bucket of gravel, sluice it in the water to clean it, then pick through and find possible sapphires. Then they will look at your treasures and tell you what they are worth and if the stones are worth doing anything with. We talked about trying our luck but decided to head down the road. Good thing as we didn't get home until 7 as it was and I am sure those buckets of gravel are not designed to make you rich!!
No comments:
Post a Comment