Showing posts with label Connecticut River. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Connecticut River. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Albino geese?

Motoring along on a fine crisp morning up Scenic Vermont Route 5, northbound between Rockingham and Springfield, Vermont, Official Home of the Simpsons, this observer was astounded to see, in a flock of wild geese rising over the Connecticut River from the edge of the cornfield, two brilliantly white individuals among the dark - flying together in the middle of the flock as plain as day. They were headed away, and too quickly for the trusty Sony A100 dslr to wake up and take an impression, so I slowed the RoadMaster Estate Wagon to concentrate on live observation and decided that indeed, whether they were ducks or geese, I had seen among this wild flock two white flyers, likely a rare pair of escapees from some place where they would not be so free to wheel about on a sharp first morning of Spring. So, who says that there's no fun in Vermont?!

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Fancy News - it was a grand Strawberry Season, but now Blueberries take center stage.

If you drive about Springfield, Vermont, on any fine day in June, you will see a cryptic note along the road adorned with a large happy Strawberry - heed it's injunction and at all cost get thee down to the river and meet the fine people who husband a few choice acres of the best Strawberries on this side of the Connecticut River, and where you can pick your own. Que aventura! ir recogiendo fresas frescas en una granja de Springfield donde producen una cosecha de fresas incomparables!Here at home our blueberries are preparing a feast for that busy Thrush who sings all morning high in the Maples.