Friday, December 22, 2017

Winter in Vermont.

12-22-17 VERMONT: We’ve been here a couple of days. It’s been cold, and we haven’t done much outside except for a little shoveling. The midday temps are in the teens, and at night it’s near zero. Today it started snowing very early, and there’s about five inches so far.

Before we left NJ, we had dinner at a new restaurant, Marcus B & P, in that gentrified corner of Newark where NJPAC, the universities, museums, WBGO and the FBI are located. Friend Alan came with us, we all loved it. It is another Marcus Samuelsson establishment, the menu and the plates are like nothing else anywhere, everything is unique. It’s an eating adventure, can't wait to go back.

Last night we went to Stone Soup restaurant in Strafford with Donna and Bruce and Shari and Dave. We have been eating there for twenty five years and hope they stick with it.

Tonight there’s a Solstice party at Diana and Steve’s, and later we go back to town to pick up GD Maggie arriving from Boston on the Dartmouth coach. She’s the first of several kids and grands who will be here for the holiday weekend.


Sun and shade. I framed it like this to get the chiaroscuro. The distant hills really were purple in this light.

Now it's overcast.

Early morning pinks before sunrise.

Today we have new snow and cold, in the teens.

The garage roof is about to dump. That red spot is a cluster of berries on the viburnum trying to sneak into the picture from the left.

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