Vermonters know snow. Most can trace their relationship with the substance along the shooting pains in their lower backs. That’s why Wilson A. “Snowflake” Bentley’s obsession was so unexpected. While his neighbors were cheering the coming of spring, he’d mourn each melting flake as “just that much beauty…gone, without leaving any record behind.” Home-schooled and […]
There’s not a lot of praise out there for the Connecticut stretch of I-95, but City Limits, a dining hybrid of sorts, is a welcome and delicious respite from the inevitable road construction and tailgating. No matter that this place has an identity issue: It calls itself a diner–and the clean, vivid colors, and bright […]
VIDEO: Mt. Washington in Winter You don’t stay strangers when you pack together on a blue-sky morning in the cold cabin of a snow tractor rumbling up the eight-mile-long Mount Washington Auto Road at six miles per hour. In places, the tractor has to break through 20-foot-high snow slabs, its enormous treads rolling over the […]
Taken Summer, 2008, while touring the South coast beaches.
This gate is opened twice yearly, once in the Fall to welcome new students, and once in the Spring for graduation.
sunset over Lake Champlain
I am suffering from a tad bit of ski blogger writer’s block because I am conflicted by my feelings. I am so excited by the start of winter 2008 – 2009. The ground is covered with snow and the mountains are in great shape (yahoo!!). However, some of my co-workers at Yankee are without power […]
One of my Favorite places in the Fall to take Pictures.
Each February the Green Mountain State’s capital city is papered with red hearts by the Valentine Phantom.
Do winter right by getting out in the great outdoors. There are adventures you can’t get any other time of the year! Here are a few suggestions that only take place in New England’s longest season.
The Methodist Church, The Warren River, and Barrington Harbor photographed from the tower of the town hall after a winter snow.
See more snowkiting photos I trudge across the ice, following Rachael Miller, my snowkiting instructor, onto frozen Lake Champlain. My classmates tower over me–one with a need for speed, another just looking to shorten a long Vermont winter. Me? I’m a 5-foot 2-inch schoolteacher who’s looking for a new challenge. On the lake, fellow riders […]
