View from the Porch & Christmas

We see the most interesting things from our porch!

Last night at our Downtown Business Meeting we presented the calendar for our Christmas Season. It's amazing what all is going to be going on.

A few highlights -

Read the story A Christmas Carol in Downtown windows

Friday night luminaries throughout the business district

Friday night Dickens of a Christmas Trolley Tours

Open Houses in 12 Downtown Shops the Friday & Saturday after Thanksgiving

Scrooge at New Bern Civic Theatre

The Nutcracker at New Bern Civic Theatre

The NC Symphony at the Convention Center

Candlelight tours at Tryon Palace

Living Nativity at Centenary United Methodist Church

Pets on Parade

Hand crafted Ornament and Nativity show at Carolina Creations

Sculpture show at Craven Arts Council

Community Caroling 300 block Pollock St Dec 4

Historic Bed & Breakfast Open house

Lighting of Community Christmas Tree

Holly & Ivy Tour

Whew! These are just the Highlights, there is also the parade, flotilla, Christmas Tree Ship and more....

To view the details visit www.downtownnewbern.blogspot.com

View from the Porch - Weather wonders

On Saturday night we witnessed the most amazing light show from our porch.

We watched a lightning storm to the North for and hour and a half, it was like being in a movie theater.

The interesting thing was that the storm never reached New Bern and most of the lightning went from one cloud to another with little of it actually heading toward the ground.

When we lived in the mountains in Colorado we never saw lightning but we would see double and triple rainbows on a regular basis.

Many times we drove through one like driving through an arch and many times one end of the rainbow would be in downtown Aspen, what does that tell you!!

It was a great place to live but we also love living in New Bern, we've been here 20 years in 2009, hard to believe, and today is our 25th wedding anniversary!