A week or so ago, there were a couple of warm days here, and not coincidentally, a fog bank that settled in for nearly the whole time (see two posts below also).
The owners of this cottage, Laurie and Eric, were out on a nearby beach looking for sea glass when I pulled over to take a few photographs. It turns out this was their actual home for a year while a larger structure elsewhere on the property was being renovated, and that living there “..was one of the happiest years of our lives”. We talked about simplicity, and I mentioned Henry David Thoreau, who wrote from Walden Pond: “I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.”
We truly don’t need much.
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A magnificently rendered work of Chinese cursive in metal, perhaps eight feet tall, on a property overlooking RT 7. Best translation so far, reading from bottom to top: “wish you happiness and laughs”, courtesy of Claire at the CEAS program at Wesleyan U.
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This dreary and leaden day was transformed, with the arrival of a spitting snow at dusk, into one of remarkable lightness and beauty.
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T-shirts, Long Trail beers, smartphones, and camaraderie were all very much in evidence in this group of twenty-somethings, standing at the top of Deer Leap Overlook, in a brisk late October wind with Pico off in the distance.
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A recent drive up Route 102 in Vermont’s NE Kingdom, which meanders through the bottomland of the CT River, offered some magnificent scenery, even by Vermont-in-the-fall standards. I came to realize that I was moving through a huge plain, bounded on the west by the Green Mountains, and the Whites on the east. Those are the foothills of the Whites off in the distance, and (probably) a cherry tree in the foreground.
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