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Post by suzanne on Jul 30, 2006 19:25:06 GMT -7
I uploaded some photos from our family trip earlier this month to Stowe, Vermont and the Green Mountains, if you'd like to see them. It was a beautiful area for hiking, biking, etc. and I'd love to go back. The trip to the famous Ben and Jerry's ice cream factory there was pretty good too!  s111.photobucket.com/albums/n146/suzanne719 |
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Post by rdywenur on Jul 31, 2006 14:01:22 GMT -7
Thanks so much for sharing those great photos. Where are those 2 guys...Ben& Jerry ;D
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Post by pieter on Jul 31, 2006 14:21:44 GMT -7
Wonderful landscapes, town and house on the mountain, it reminds me a bit of the movie I just saw, Broken Flowers with Bill Murray, who drove with his rented car through New England like landscapes, from town to town, to Bikers settlement, to subburbs. But this landscape is a sort of low mountain, friendly small town like atmosphere. It reminds me of the Belgian Ardens mountains of my childhood. See this inmage: www.flickr.com/photos/dietse/199064185/in/pool-thestunningshot/Pieter |
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Post by piwo on Jul 31, 2006 20:05:02 GMT -7
Ah... Ethan Allan and the Green Mountain Boys... they had some grit to be certain! What beautiful scenery. I had a site in Burlington VT that I visited several times, but just didn't have anytime to explore... What an absolute pity.. so pretty, so much history...
Thanks for the PICs!
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Post by leslie on Aug 1, 2006 1:13:07 GMT -7
Suzanne
What beautiful pictures and what an entrancing area Vermont is. The images of Vermont give me a refresher of what most of Poland seems to be - when you are flying, say from Warszawa to Krakow, or walking in the hills near Krakow - lots and lots of lovely green woods and forests. So many of the trees in the UK have been chopped down over the years to extend farming; many have been replanted, but in the place of the originals they have planted boring, look-alike fir trees!
Leslie
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Post by pieter on Aug 1, 2006 2:22:29 GMT -7
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Post by suzanne on Aug 1, 2006 6:46:12 GMT -7
Thanks so much for sharing those great photos. Where are those 2 guys...Ben& Jerry ;D According to the tour guide, they're both living semi-retired lives around the Burlington VT area, with their families, doing charitable and social work projects. I didn't know this before we visited the B&J place, but they apparently sold the co. to Unilever and they're no longer directly involved! Oh well, it doesn't seem to have affected the ice cream, which was as creamy and luscious as ever! ;D |
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Post by suzanne on Aug 1, 2006 6:53:42 GMT -7
Pieter, Thanks for the beautiful photo links. There are indeed a lot of similarities, except no chateaux where we were!  Piwo, I hope you do get a chance to go back to that area for a vacation. We didn't make it to Burlington and Lake Champlain (which were actually close to Stowe), but that will be for a future trip. Leslie, Funny you should mention farming: actually this area had most of its trees chopped down about 200 or so years ago, when this (and the White Mountains region of New Hampshire) were farmland. But it's hard to farm hills, of course, and this is extremely rocky soil. Rocky as in: you can't sink a shovel without finding a big, granite boulder! So the farmers jumped at the chance to move out west in the 19th c. where it's not as scenic but much easier to farm. And so these hills have reverted back to forest. Sometimes where you hike here, you will come across an old stone fence in the middle a forested area, a leftover that once marked the boundaries of a family farm long ago. |
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Post by Jaga on Aug 26, 2006 19:39:57 GMT -7
Susanne,
beautiful pictures. Thanks for sharing.
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