Vermont and Massachusetts, July 2001

July 20 - 22, 2001. We took a quick weekend jaunt up to Vermont to stay with a friend, Trish. It's amazing to think that such a wonderful place is just a 2-hour drive away from where we live. Click on the pictures for a larger view.

The cabin sits at the top of a mountain in Readsboro, Vermont. The view is a little hazy in this picture, but if you look down across the meadow and then over the trees, you can see the mountains across the valley in the distance.

Looking down the meadow. It was so dark there at night that we could see the Milky Way.

Looking back up at the cabin.

Flowers in the yard. My car is parked in the background, on a very steep slant.

Windmills producing electricity. There were eight or ten of them, but they wouldn't all fit in the picture.

The information about the windmills... of course it's probably too tiny to read on the screen!

Marty and me. We really could not have asked for prettier weather that weekend. It was just gorgeous.

Here's Cool Trish in her truck. The dogs stayed home in Connecticut this time.

Vern's Fish Fry, where we ate lunch on Saturday during a break from the antique stores in Bennington, Vermont.

A mountain stream beside the road, where we killed an hour or so wading in the water.

Marty and Trish taking off their shoes in the sunshine.

Trish, chilling out on a rock.

Marty's feet, and mine. We may just be the two whitest white people on the planet.

Mr. Sierra Club took this picture. (You may remember his shots from the Mohawk Trail trip last fall.)

Sun, water, rocks.

Marty took a circuitous route out to this rock in the middle of the stream, but he didn't fall in.

The next day we went to Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. They have a bridge there that's nothing but flowers... it's amazing! Surprisingly enough, they call it the Bridge of Flowers.

Here I am hanging out on another bridge in Shelburne Falls.

They also have these glacial potholes, which have created a natural swimming hole that sits in the middle of town. It was a great day for climbing on rocks and checking out the water.

The color variations in the rocks were very beautiful. People were sunbathing and picnicking all over them.

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