I found myself looking at this image a long time. It could very well be called Design.
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“Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.” Christina Rossetti
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There are some photographs that just cry out for more than my usual (i.e., minimal) post-processing, which I mostly refrain from doing. But sometimes I like to see where it goes …
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Of the many beautifully designed entryways to homes In the Borough, this one on Water Street stands out for its elegance.
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The meadows are now about 3 feet high in this part of the world, and farmers are starting to mow. In another barn on this property, the hay bales are already stacked up to the roof.
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This is the interior of the same barn shown above. The contrast is striking; in the summer, the inside of these places can be as dark and moody as the outsides are light and breezy. My lifelong love affair with barns began with a huge, deserted four story structure, a myth really, that was a couple hundred yards from where I grew up.
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Lilacs were very much in bloom throughout most of VT last weekend; this is the west side of an 18th century house that the first governor of VT, Thomas Chittenden, once lived in.
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Looking towards the back porch, ocean side, of a summer cottage, ready to go for the season (see earlier posts – Offseason I and II).
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These rooms stood empty for the greater part of 20 years, the owner in a nursing home, so the story goes. One spring evening, walking in the back yard among daffodils that seemed none the worse for wear from the inattention, I heard kids playing off in the valley below, and felt that the owners probably had a good life here. But who knows? The artwork was in a pile of rubbish elsewhere in the house, which has since been torn down.
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This image, and the six preceding, were all taken on the grounds of North Hill Gardens, in Readsboro, VT. The “pergola walk” is only one of the many highlights of this wonderful southern VT property. The pergola itself is made of basswood, reputed to last “at least your lifetime and a day”, by the old timer who provided it. My article on North Hill, with a number of different photographs than those shown here, can be found in the March/April 2011 issue of Vermont magazine, via the Publications tab at the top of this page.
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