Nashua, NH, is Blooming

Flowers in bloom in Nashua, NH

Early last month a blog post featured Nashua NH's Canadian ties largely due to the many mill workers who labored in the city's textile mills, including the re-purposed mill we call home, formerly Nashua Manufacturing Corporation and now Clocktower Place.

Clocktower Place Apartments, formerly the Nashua Manufacturing Company, Nashua, NH

That post highlighted a pocket park, Le Parc de Notre Renaissance Francaise (Renaissance Park) most often called the French Park. This park, alongside the Nashua River, is where we've been spending many afternoons. It's a great location to read, watch the river and talk to folks.

La Dame de Notre Renaissance Francaise (The Lady of Our French Renaissance)

The park's centerpiece is this bronze statue of a millworker and her son. Up until a couple of weeks ago, the area around the sculpture was barren looking. Since then the city has started adding flowers and other plantings and it's looking colorful. This is how it looked this week.

As noted earlier, the park also includes a flower garden that's maintained jointly by the city and some of our apartment neighbors. It's tended to regularly and is currently hosting a large number of mostly purple irises in bloom now. It's so nice to see my favorite color every day.

There's other colorful blooms, in addition to purple ones, and these are just as lovely.

This rhododendron plant while not actually in the French Park is very close to it near the we use daily to access the park. Its flowers are in various stages of buds and/or full colorful blooms. 

But the French Park isn't the only place that flowers are finally blooming in Nashua, NH, after a late start to spring. On our walks around the city, here's more blooms we've seen.

It's been a great way to unwind from the current world stressors. The past few months have been filled with corona news virus of deaths, illnesses, and shut-downs. The past week, has brought much racial tension, unrest and rioting in the U.S. and abroad. Let's not forget the political arena, as well. Such events are will not be ongoing blog topics herein. They will not be dismissed, but included as effecting ourselves and/or to our city.

Other bloggers have commented on these events in detailed posts. That's certainly their prerogative and they should do what feels right for them. However, as most people are fully aware of events happening now, my decision to post/comment on them has been far less. The news media has been, and continues to be, relentless even repetitive in its coverage, perhaps to excess. Do we really need to be reminded all the time, every hour? As always, different views are welcome and appreciated in your comments.

Seeing nature's beauty offers an escape and a way for us to truly appreciate and be thankful that we are doing well as are family, friends, and neighbors. We hope the same is true for all of you and yours.

To answer a blogger's question, collages in this post were created with the PhotoScapeX photo editor downloaded from the app store (Apple). I've been using the free version for a two months; this program and others were listed in a mid-March post. A paid upgrade ($40 USD) is available and offers even more features.

Last, but certainly not least, we remain grateful and appreciative for all comments from fellow bloggers. My husband, Patrick/Grenville appreciated the condolences many posted on the passing of his beloved Aunt Anita. Our deepest thanks to everyone.