Springfield Vermont on a recent rainy Spring day.

A lawn that always looks good, always looks great in the rain. Springfield has many fine lawns, and they really shine in the short interval before the trees leaf out.

Happy Summer Solistice!

Summer is here for sure when you see the Berry Man setting up for business.

Edgar May Health and Recreation Center by the Black River - Springfield, Vermont

Springfield Vermont is by now known to have a fine facility in the Edgar May Health and Recreation Center, but it takes a visit to enjoy the hidden secret of the setting along the Black River, where the friendly and helpful staff has gone to great lengths to keep the lawns and riverside a well-manicured garden - a delightful walk between the entrance and the parking lot.
The reader who has no other interest should take the time this Summer to visit the Edgar May Health and Recreation Center, to appreciate the building's details like the impressive solar array, but also to try the Adirondack chairs outside that are set up to enjoy the rush of fresh clean water of the Black River of Vermont, just be sure to bring a friend to help you up again!

Springfield Vermont now has a Farmer's Market! - Fancy News!

A Farmer's Market, a Community Market to be exact, to take place in the open air on Saturdays in the warm months in the parking lot between McKinley's Restaurant and Chittenden Bank, has been established in Beautiful Downtown Springfield Vermont, Jewel of the Upper Valley! - what could be dandier? Well, here they are, complete with a nice website - www.springfieldcommunitymarket.com - thanks to all the volunteers who are making a real contribution to Springfield's wickedly potential-filled downtown.

High time too. And it arrives as something of a surprise, it appears that movement towards this day was brisker than anyone now can imagine, considering the great rafts of old logs that may have had to have been traversed first in the attempt to wrestle and shoehorn a new idea into the dusty arena. Indeed, the proposal for the market was funded in March, and plans were drawn up, with a mighty fine result that has every possibility of taking on a life of it's own.

The opening of the Springfield Community Market in lovely downtown Springfield, Vermont, City of Lights, was last Saturday, attended by many who agree and call it a truly festive event. Everyone enjoyed especially the great live music provided by George Ainley on Fiddle, Julie Levy on Ukelele, Steve Matusha on Guitar, and Barbara Burns on a large, fulsome and rich-toned stringed instrument that stood about as tall as she did. The crowd was further entertained and teased up to a salivating frenzy by the culinary magic of Jason Tostrup, popular local chef, who taught the riveted audience how to make the best Spring Rolls this side of the Mekong.

The rain on this fine June morning did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of the small but growing group of well-wishers and friends, shoppers and day-trippers, and of course the vendors and volunteers themselves took the ducklische weather in stride as good practice for the busy times to come.

The farmers and other vendors of goods or purveyors of other services or experience-based productions were themselves out in force, with a small but choice range of offerings, certainly unfazed by the weather and every one of them ready with a cogent pitch and reams of information about their products. Among them, Peter Hingston and family were there displaying a fine array of their own brand "Vicky Day's Preserves"from their Cherry Hill Farm, Katie from Two Ponds Pottery in Mt. Holley displayed a warm and attractive collection of her pottery and some beefy little tomato seedlings rapidly finding new homes, Springfield Vermont's own Ephraim Mt. Farm was on hand, and there was excellent live music by a local performer whose name will be edited in shortly.

There was a very busy Soap Bubble and Popcorn Station too, manned by the intrepid ladies of the Springfield High School Alumni Association, functioning as a fundraiser for the Great Springfield Alumni Week Parade that takes place a scant two weeks from today on June 26th.

When in Springfield, Vermont, in any fair weather, always remember to set aside Saturday Mornings for the Springfield Community Market in beautiful downtown Springfield, the Official Home of Homer Simpson.

Another Proud Day for Springfield Vermont's Most Famous Citizen - as noted in the New York Times

Homer is in the news again, making Springfield Vermont proud.

The piece in today's New York Times begins with this - "LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Beer-swilling, doughnut-lover Homer Simpson has been named the greatest character created for television and film in the past 20 years.

The star character of long-running U.S. cartoon series "The Simpsons" beat schoolboy wizard Harry Potter and vampire slayer Buffy to take top place in the survey for U.S. entertainment magazine Entertainment Weekly."

Read the full article by following the link below.


http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/06/01/arts/entertainment-us-simpson.html?_r=1

From the Files, a photo of Springfield, Vermont, on a Summertime Eve, long, long ago ... un Atardecer en el Valle

From the Files, a photo of Springfield, Vermont, on a Summertime Eve, long, long ago, a photo of a sunset in the valley ... como se ve, una tarde de Verano, hace un anyo, que sigo esperando recibír la maquina fotográfica preferida, que sigue en obras (¿ó me la habrán perdido yá?)

Camera Follies Continue

Well, if anyone is curious, it will amuse to know that there were two telephone calls recently from the repair center somewhere in Tennessee. In the first call, "Becky" states that she has the camera there in front of her in her work station and that she is about to begin replacing the broken parts. In the second call, "Pamela" calls to say that she too has the camera on her lap, but that she is still "waiting on the parts". I asked if that was comfortable or safe, and what did OSHA think about it, but that only confused the issue, so instead I asked her to check her computer to see why I had just gotten a call from "Becky" saying that the parts were there and that the repair was about to take place. After a while, I just asked "Peggy" to call if it ever did get finished.
A pizza is often free if it takes to long to be delivered, hmmm.