Winter Sports.

12-30-10 VERMONT: This will be the last post of the year and decade for me. Only ninety years left in the twenty-first century. Perhaps you can tell its been a slow week.

We got here on Tuesday after an uneventful trip, the highways were all well cleared. There is less snow here than in NJ by half. The snow had been pushed around by the wind, now just a whisper, so ridge tops are almost bare and hollows are full. Yesterday and today we got out in the pasture on snowshoes and today, skis for me, to exercise the dogs and us. The snow yesterday was dry and powdery, but today thick and sticky. I skied on the wrong day. It was in the thirties today, and that changed the snow. Forties predicted for tomorrow.

Happy New Year, dear reader.


Snowshoeing Mountain Woman.


Rothko-esque?


Layfayette and Moosilauke at sunset.