winter – TRAVELING NEAR & FAR

Ski Jumping in Vermont

Brattleboro, Vermont is home to the historic Harris Hill Ski Jump where local and international jumpers compete annually during Winter Carnival

Yesterday morning, a fat sugar moon high in the western sky at the break of day, a peachy-pink to the east, clear

Winter has returned. Snow falling steadily, the landscape soft and white. The robins and songbirds that magically appeared last week, gone

A foot of gorgeous fluffy-white powder snow battered by ice, rain and fog this past week. The milder weather, a

Overcast this morning, waves of white mist rising in and out of the valleys, at times completely enveloping the bare and

Today we are in the midst of a spring snow blizzard, with more snow predicted. Schools are closed across Vermont

Silvery gray skies, four inches of fresh corn snow covering the ground, branches and boughs crusted with white. Milder temperatures.

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

Milder weather the past few days, the ice still thick on flooded meadows and ponds, rivers edged with ice, deeper

Yesterday I was reminded of Olles skidfärd, a 1907 children’s book by Elsa Beskow – translated from the Swedish as Ollie’s