VERMONT!!

I just want to catch everyone up really quickly.  I quit my job in Utah and headed home to Vermont at the beginning of September.  Here are some photos I've taken since my return to Vermont.

 

Home, or, as mom has affectionately named it, The Gathering House

 My mom's hydrangea bush, quite amazing

 A double rainbow in the valley after a thunderstorm

 The sun, breaking through the autumn mist in the morning

 The hydrangeas at the Church, in Burlington

 Matthew, Emma, Sophie, a departing Sierra, Dad (aka Papa Gramps) and Noah.

 Grammy and Grampy.  These two are larger than life!

 The sun kissing the hilltop

 Matthew, April, and a VERY grown up Mary Lou.  I hardly recognized her!

 Emma and Sierra.  Sierra has developed a phobia of cameras.  She'll learn to get over it.

 Emma and Sophie, husking corn

 Queen Anne's Lance

 First fire I built in the woodstove

 My dad's mom, Mary Lou, back in her band days.

 More of my mother's flowers

 sigh.  Camels Hump.  I love this picture

 A few of the leaves are starting to change!

 Our family headstone in the family plot up on the hill.  Don't know why some people think it's creepy . . .

 Natural casing franks in the chiminea

 We used to play with these seed pods a lot when I was a kid.  apparently called jewel weed.  You pinch the pods and they pop open

 One of my assignments was to take all the tops and roots off the garlic that Mom and Dad grew in their gardens.

 A fresh haircut, with NO PINK!

 A collage of one of my days with Hayden

 Hayden LOVES going down to the river to swim.  He now thinks he is part fish.

 I love his smooshed up face!

 Blue sky while it's raining

 More blue sky while it's raining

Burning a GIANT pile of dead brush with Dad on a rainy Saturday.

 More leaves changing colors

 The woodshed with the sun peeking out from behind some clouds

 Another misty morning.  Real mist, NOT inversion!

 A collage of flowers from my mother's garden

 I taught myself to split kindling.  There isn't anymore to split, at the moment.

 Another picture of the yard with sun-kissed hills as the backdrop

 Windows at the Huntington Public Library

The Ceiling at the library.  I'll have another post with more pictures up soon!