Old friend Mike Aiken (now back in Georgia after a decade-long sojourn in northern VT), sez further:
“I can’t fully explain it but Vermont is so unique, ordinary, unspoiled, commonplace, interesting, beautiful, astonishing and ghastly that I can’t get it out of my system. I tell people it’s like your favorite jacket or pair of jeans and every favorite childhood memory and adult romantic interlude rolled into one, wrapped in a psychotic’s vision of bizarre weather.”
Photo taken at Brown’s Orchard and Farmstand, where I had some of their fine apple pie and cider to start out the day.