MUD SEASON!
We are now in Vermont’s 5th Season!
Mud Season…melting snow, falling rain!
We made it through another beautiful Vermont Winter!
Here is some of the beauty for your to view!
Our front yard (from the steps)!
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The Yard from the Arbor.
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The yard goes straight down to train tracks and the river at the end.
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Cool Bird Nest All Around the Yard!
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Tall and short…
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Knotty Ones, even!
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And dangerous ones!
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With bird houses…
There are feeders!
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Be Careful Birdie!
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We live next to a churchyard…
And I love how the snow seems to be protecting the Statues!
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The Virgin Mary has a snow angel!
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Frozen in Time!
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And with Mud Season…
THERE IS SUGAR SEASON!
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Sugar Shacks spot the country side around here!
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They are usually small with tons of steam rising from them.
They are basically boiling the water out of sap to make what we all know and love…
Vermont Maple Syrup!
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This was a No-Name Sugar Shack…
Just some guys making Sryup…and selling it!
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This is how they collect it!
How cute is this?
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Out on another cute country drive, we went to North Adams in Western Mass.
Why?
Because there is a giant cool Museum of Contemporary Art there in an old Mill!
Yes!
Basically out in the sticks is Mass MoCA!
And here is the art!
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Stick ’em Up!
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Ugly Beautiful.
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Oil on Wall and Floor.
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Octopus on Brick!
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Don’t mush the bee!
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Phoenix by Xu Bing!
Well, just a tiny part of the giant recycled/upcycled awesomeness of art!
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Dawn having fun with Sol…
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As does Jim…
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A new form of AirCon!
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The Museum also had an antique store…
And here are their window ads!
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If you want any of it…
I will give it to you for free!
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I think that is normally for free too!
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MASS is right…not only for the state of Massachusetts…
But for the sheer MASS size of it.
Sol LeWitt alone had a building of 30,000 square feet all to himself!
Back to the country…
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And the Country Flora…
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And Melting Ice!
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Good-bye Ice…
Hello…Cute Country Blooms!
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HAPPY SPRING TO ALL!
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