Back on the River.

8-26-12 VERMONT: The weather has provided a series of cookie-cutter days with no rain, sunny skies, and pleasant temps, I’m not complaining. Two days ago I finally repaired the DR Trimmer and did the rest of the mowing and then some weeding. I checked the burdock that I had sprayed with Roundup, they were all nicely dying.

Yesterday we were back on the Connecticut with Ken and Jane. We motored from the mouth of the Ompompanoosuc River to Gilman Island, AKA Pirate Island, locally, very locally. The new log cabin on the island is beautifully done, complements to the DOC who did it. The trip is six miles and took exactly an hour, both down river and back up, which tells you about the current in the Connecticut at this time. We saw dozens of mallards in family groups, but no unusual birds.

New blooms: mystery plant [more about that one later].


Mallard chicks and mom.

Mallard male, immature.

Occasionally trains still use the tracks along the Connecticut R.