Greetings from Vermont and the Green Mountains

If you could see all our tentative routes marked on this state’s map you’d laugh.We could stay on here for a year and still not catch all there is to do. Our primary focus has been taking day excursion drives to catch the fall colors, countryside, and mountains. Vermont is still very much an enclave of unspoiled wilderness with thick forests blanketing the rolling hills and the valley lowlands. The pastoral landscape, dotted with pristine villages and covered bridges, evokes the idealized images found in paintings by longtime resident Norman Rockwell. The American flag, ”Old Glory” decorates many a front porch here. The countryside is replete with manicured farms where the state’s trademark black and white Holstein cattle graze against a backdrop of natural green beauty. Visiting the Ben and Jerry Ice Cream Factory was great fun.It never dawned on us until now why cows are on all those B&J ice cream pint cups.The state has an anti-billboard law which ensures that the countryside is not blighted by obtrusive advertisements. Being organic and environmentally conscience is highly promoted here.One can’t help but be an outdoor enthusiast with some of the best hiking, boating, fishing, and camping in the country surrounding them. We’ve had a few days of rain put have planned around the weather as not to damper our days. 

Rains have taken lots of leaves off

Stowe Mt. Ski Resort

Stowe is basically a mountain ski resort destination for the Northeast What has made Vermont so special this time of year is the variety of colors the trees manifest, from the palest mustard to flaming scarlet. Here are some candids traveling along the roads of Vermont we’ve been able to catch. Enjoy and have a great day. 

Waldorf School in Chelsea

Check out the roof on this old barn

Mama sow and her little piglets... They really are honkers.

Lovely old barn in Strafford is typical of many in VT

Snugglers Notch led us down a mountain on a road less traveled by. It was truly beautiful.

The Von Trapp Lodge where the family in the Sound of Music film actually lived in Stowe up on the mountain

It is apple harvest season in Vermont

Now look who is on the latest flavor of ice cream

Yukon,Gaspe, and Madeline decided to join in the fun with those Holstein cows

An old apple cider press at the Cold Cider Hollow Mill in Stowe

Nothing tastes better than cold fresh pressed apple cider with no sugar or preservatives