This photo is a fall lake just as the fog lifted and only a few leaves remained.
Vermont
View From Porch
Battle Ground Condo View
Lake Camp
This photo shows a small camp on Shadow Lake in Concord. Makes me wish I was there right now.
Top Of Falls
I shot this just after a brief down pour. The forest had a fantastical misty quality to it and the rain had pushed back the extreme heat of the day for a while.
Thumbs Up For Ben And Jerry’s
You scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream!! Matt and I took a tour at the Ben and Jerry’s and took a picture in front of the cowmobile.
Up In The Air
Photo taken at the Quechee, VT Balloon Festival, 2010
Spring
Top 20 Vermont Events
Call ahead to confirm dates, times, and admission prices. For hundreds of fairs, festivals, exhibits, shows, and other fun activities, go to: YankeeMagazine.com/events MAY 1-2: WOODSTOCK, Spring Farm Festival. A weekend packed with traditional spring activities at Billings Farm & Museum, including the annual shearing of the Southdown flock. Farmers demonstrate plowing skills with oxen […]
Vermont Local Secrets 2010
Best Literary Stopover NAULAKHA, Dummerston Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book not in steamy India but in the sober kingdom of southern Vermont. His former home has been restored and is available to groups. 707 Kipling Road. 802-254-6868; landmarktrustusa.org Best Stargazing STELLAFANE CONVENTION, Springfield Quirky doesn’t begin to describe this annual convention of “amateur telescope […]
Vermont Best Lodging 2010
Best Romantic Escape RABBIT HILL INN, Lower Waterford Massages, hiking paths, and an intimate fireside dining room all do their job to light the fire for romance. But perhaps just as important is what the inn, nestled in the Northeast Kingdom, doesn’t have: TV, WiFi, or even a reliable cell phone signal–so you can disconnect […]
Vermont Best Restaurants 2010
Best Use of Local Flavors BELTED COW BISTRO, Essex Junction Try the two-bite “sliders,” made with local pork and served with spicy kimchee slaw and ginger- and-scallion relish. Another seasonal highlight: butternut-squash soup, enhanced with a whisper of maple syrup. 4 Park St. 802-316-3883; beltedcowvt.com Best Community-Owned Restaurant THE BEE’S KNEES, Morristown When this hippie-ish […]
Vermont Best Bargains 2010
Real Bistro Prices TIP TOP CAFE, White River Junction The word “bistro” has been so abused it might as well be dropped from the English language–except that every once in a while, a place comes along that epitomizes the concept, with simple but creative food (such as orange-infused salmon and ginger-and-pork meatloaf), candlelit table service, […]