Late afternoon sunlight casts long shadows on the landscape at West Quoddy Head Lighthouse. There’s a slight chill in the air replacing the warm summer afternoon and evening temperatures here ,…a reminder that autumn is slowly approaching.
landscape
For Vermont’s state forestry commissioner, foliage season brings with it a colorful side gig.
Massachusetts
Return to October Mountain | Autumn in the Berkshires
On the untamed side of the Berkshires, back roads and byways take visitors deep into autumn beauty and unexpected discoveries.
At the Lincoln family’s Vermont estate, now a museum, an important piece of American history pulls into the station.
(1.) For 130 years, Ward Clapboard Mill has been a major presence in the New England timber industry. Still owned by the Ward family, the company produces beautifully crafted quarter-sawn vertical-grain clapboard (prices begin at 92¢ per linear foot for the popular 6-inch extra-clear clapboards) from locally sourced timber at the firm’s mills in Moretown, […]
This weekend marks the end of the 6th Annual Deerfield Valley Blueberry Festival which began on July 26, 2013. From Friday, July 26 through this Saturday, August 3, Wilmington, Vermont, and the surrounding towns of Dover, Jacksonville, Whitingham, Searsburg and Marlboro have all participated with blueberry-themed events and activities like blueberry bingo at Masonic Temple […]
Gardens
Vermont Daylillies
The weather has been so glorious lately and my thoughts are turning to the beautiful corner of northern Vermont where my gardening imagination is fed. In real life, I have a small backyard and we live with in blocks of the Boston city line, but I like to imagine that I can create a slice […]
Allison V. Smith is a fine art, freelance editorial photographer based in Dallas, Texas with strong family ties to Rockport, Maine. She has been both a past student and instructor at the Maine Media Workshops and in celebration of their 40th anniversary, currently has work in their show at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. […]
In the seaside neighborhood of Goose Rocks Beach in Kennebunkport, Maine, the battle between public and private beach access is playing out with an intensity that threatens to fracture the community.
It couldn’t be more Vermont if you poured maple syrup over it: the winding dirt road, arching shade trees, fields sloping right and left, shaggy apple orchard, and finally, of course, the bent-over red barn, faded to a rosy blush. Midsummer afternoon in the hills of Putney, the light sharpens and spreads out, insects hum, […]
The Shantyman’s song bellowed across the deck of the schooner, setting the pace of the work to be done on this Maine cruise. -Who paid out all this chain, boys, Heave your man spikes down. -We’ll haul her back again, boys, Heave your man spikes down. The anchor needed to be raised after our first […]
Japanese beetles can ruin your roses as well as many other landscape plants and vegetable crops. If your garden is infested with Japanese beetles, fight back fast by using these three methods to control those ravenous garden pests. Japanese Beetle Control The simplest way to get rid of Japanese beetles is to pluck them off […]