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Snow Blind

This storm last Saturday buried half the state…

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Dragon Brook

For ever day I live, I'd like another day, just to read…

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Carl

So the neighborhood cat is named Carl, & when I arrived here last spring, he'd been billed as "feral"…

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Late Arrival

It's hard to even describe how beautiful people are…

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Topo

In sub-zero temperatures, I sorted boxes at my storage space, looking for a specific cardboard tube of maps…

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Soul

We zig zagged our way, one in snow shoes, one in boots, up a logging road, then a gully, skirting a sugar bush, to where it leveled off, and the view turned from south facing to north…

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Winter’s Heart

Usually, deep in the heart of Vermont's winter, the water is green, the ice green, the grass ... believe it or not, some of it is still green, under the snow…

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The Melt

I didn't exactly know where to start…

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Dowsing with Trees

It didn't really get warm today but after doing a bunch of shoveling, I decided to prune an apple tree…

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Wishing

Here's my friend taking off snow shoes, although currently she's practicing her handstand in Florida on the beach…

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Coincidental

I set out in the late afternoon, to ski my property line…

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Ron’s Return

The tractor trailer would not come up my road, with the door delivery…

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Dangers

When it's too cold to glue things up because you don't have heat in your building, you improvise…

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The Yard

I stood at the open warehouse door, just below the concrete landing three feet up, and the guy had disappeared again…

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The Plumber’s Son

I took the notch road, tired of the paved road's unpredictable ice patches, as well as my own ennui…

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More Snow

He who tried to get up here to day - and a couple did - met with a pretty stiff set of conditions, both on the snow front and most decidedly, due to wind…

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