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Showing posts with label Fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fall. Show all posts
10 October 2014
Green Mountains turn orange
20 October 2012
Maples
Two maples in front of our home have been putting on a terrific show for us, gleaming gold, yellow and orange in the late day sun.
07 October 2012
02 October 2012
Newspaper's fall foliage road trip cuts through Whiting...
...but doesn't mention us
Whiting has reason to feel a bit honored and a bit slighted by the Addison Independent's fall foliage road trips. Five trips were mapped out in the newspaper's special "Fall Foliage 2012" edition. The 3-hour trip cuts right through the center of Whiting, yet the newspaper did not mention the town's name. Also neglected in the same writeup were our neighbors to the north in the pretty town of Cornwall.
The road trip description begins as follows: "From Middlebury, take Route 30 south to Sudbury, [see, no mention of Cornwall or Whiting, just POOF you're in Sudbury] where you pick up Route 73 and travel west to Larrabee's Point on Lake Champlain. You may want to cruise the lake at Mount Independence leaving from Larrabee's Point, which is home to the Fort Ticonderoga ferry. Continue north on Route 7A passing through historic Shoreham..."
From there, the three-hour road trip heads north on Route 22A to Bridport, then west on Route 135 to Chimney Point, north and east on Route 17 to the West Addison General Store, north on Jersey Street along Lake Champlain nearly to Basin Harbor, east and south on Basin Harbor Road into Vergennes, south on Route 22A into Addison, back on Route 17 east and then Route 23 south back into Middlebury.
(By the way, the Independent recently ran an editorial describing the problems it has had with the printing of its late-week broadsheet edition. Those were apparently related to the switching of printing companies. One week, the newspaper was printed with large white margins at the top and bottom of the pages. The next week, the pages were noticeably shrunk, with some type becoming virtually unreadable.)
Whiting has reason to feel a bit honored and a bit slighted by the Addison Independent's fall foliage road trips. Five trips were mapped out in the newspaper's special "Fall Foliage 2012" edition. The 3-hour trip cuts right through the center of Whiting, yet the newspaper did not mention the town's name. Also neglected in the same writeup were our neighbors to the north in the pretty town of Cornwall.
From there, the three-hour road trip heads north on Route 22A to Bridport, then west on Route 135 to Chimney Point, north and east on Route 17 to the West Addison General Store, north on Jersey Street along Lake Champlain nearly to Basin Harbor, east and south on Basin Harbor Road into Vergennes, south on Route 22A into Addison, back on Route 17 east and then Route 23 south back into Middlebury.
(By the way, the Independent recently ran an editorial describing the problems it has had with the printing of its late-week broadsheet edition. Those were apparently related to the switching of printing companies. One week, the newspaper was printed with large white margins at the top and bottom of the pages. The next week, the pages were noticeably shrunk, with some type becoming virtually unreadable.)
01 October 2012
Get ready, Leafers
Reliable sources tell me that northeast Vermont is near or at peak fall foliage color at the moment. The rest of the state is lagging a week or more behind. In this area, there is already spectacular color here and there, but the majority of leaves are still green. I'm guessing the next two weekends will be prime-time for fall colors in the Whiting area.
Here's what the area looks like at the moment.
Here's what the area looks like at the moment.
18 September 2012
Getting cooler, more colorful
Nights have been getting colder lately. We've seen temperatures down into the forties. The field in back has been hayed for the final time of 2012 (an activity our horse watched with great interest). It took awhile, but the eagerly anticipated Vermont autumn seems to be upon us. Two large sugar maples in our yard are leading the way to the colorful season. The "authorities" promise that this year will be especially colorful.
I've noticed quite a crowd over at the farm markets lately. Harvest is big business around these parts. It brings a smile to see the local farm stands, unmanned, with heaps of vegetables, a "Help Yourself" sign and a can for depositing your payment. Back in Connecticut, we did see such things from time to time (there was a farm down the road that invited you to help yourself to the eggs), but not with the same regularity. A generous neighbor recently brought over some excellent green peppers and a small basket of the best cherry tomatoes I've ever had. The tomatoes were firm but thin-skinned, so juicy they popped when you bit them and so sweet that, if you didn't know you were eating tomatoes, you might swear you were eating grapes.
Sadly, we have no harvest of our own to share this year. We will have to do something about that in 2013.
I've noticed quite a crowd over at the farm markets lately. Harvest is big business around these parts. It brings a smile to see the local farm stands, unmanned, with heaps of vegetables, a "Help Yourself" sign and a can for depositing your payment. Back in Connecticut, we did see such things from time to time (there was a farm down the road that invited you to help yourself to the eggs), but not with the same regularity. A generous neighbor recently brought over some excellent green peppers and a small basket of the best cherry tomatoes I've ever had. The tomatoes were firm but thin-skinned, so juicy they popped when you bit them and so sweet that, if you didn't know you were eating tomatoes, you might swear you were eating grapes.
Sadly, we have no harvest of our own to share this year. We will have to do something about that in 2013.
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