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Sweet Sugar Spring

It is sugar season in Vermont and across New England. And there is hope today that the sap will rise

March dawned gray, and wintry, with a few tentative signs of spring. Mud on back roads, and sap buckets sprouting

The last few days, a string of bejeweled sunset and sunrise days. Ribbons of iridescent salmon, lavender and purple on the

Last night’s starry blue sky, sandwiched between evening and morning pink. Yesterday, a sunset stroll to catch the last of

Reflecting on the year past, so much goodness, gone too fast. Looking to the new year with hope and dreams.

Yesterday, a late afternoon walk in the fading daylight. Snow falling, settling in mossy crevices, the woods heavy with the

This morning we woke to a landscape enveloped in white. By mid-day the thick, dense fog had dissipated into thin

A beautiful stillness outside – not a whisper of wind. Narrow ribbons of pink and gray-blue cloud cover this morning,

Gray skies, a hint of pale blue on the underbelly of clouds, a few tenacious leaves still clinging to bare

Yesterday, an eerie quiet before the storm, this morning a soft drizzle falling. Leaves on the ground, tawny and rusty,