Vermont Pictures

2005

IMG_4594web.JPG (164751 bytes) Preparing to depart for Vermont, from home
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DSC02063web.JPG (115475 bytes) What can I say?  Queeche Gorge!  From the hi-way bridge.
No idea what this is... Some fungus.  But it was
pretty.
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Centipede. DSC02067web.JPG (107196 bytes)
DSC02078web.JPG (129491 bytes) Ferns
Queeche Gorge, on a misty day. DSC02100web.JPG (99582 bytes)
IMG_4598web.JPG (137284 bytes) Nearby, Hartland Lake.  Dammed by the Corp of Engineers.
Filled from the Queeche River, below the gorge.
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IMG_4603web.JPG (62345 bytes) Dragonfly.
Ruby-throated hummingbird. IMG_4604web.JPG (48761 bytes)
IMG_4613web.JPG (69855 bytes) Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak.
The marsh, just upstream from the gorge.  Margie
walked here from the campground most days.  Lot
of birds.
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IMG_4626web.JPG (104366 bytes) The hi-way bridge over the gorge.
Nearby Vermont Institute for Natural Sciences.
See link, below:

VINS - Vermont Institute of Natural Sciences

 

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IMG_4739web.JPG (100944 bytes) The bridge.
A little walk down the gorge. IMG_4777web.JPG (271652 bytes)
IMG_4781web.JPG (87347 bytes) Margie's good at finding spring peepers, while walking through
the woods.
Margie walking through the meadow. IMG_4784web.JPG (179223 bytes)
IMG_4788web.JPG (230451 bytes) A peaceful scene... below the gorge.
Home at Queeche Gorge. IMG_4789web.JPG (153819 bytes)
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Saw lots of these red efts... These are the land form
of the newts found in the water.  We saw lots!
Perhaps as many as we usually see over several 
years!
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Ferns mDSC02086web.JPG (123121 bytes)
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Soloman's Seal, false. (There's another variety, 
that's "true")
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mIMG_4771web.JPG (124159 bytes) Marsh-Billings-Rockerfeller estate.
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mDSC02083web.JPG (108021 bytes) Steve, overlooking a pond at the Marsh-Billings-Rockerfeller
estate.  A national historic park.
nDSC02098web.JPG (118601 bytes) A scale model of the solar system, at the science museum, a little
north of the gorge.
Hummingbirds. nIMG_4796web.JPG (79105 bytes)
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Snake. sIMG_4808web.JPG (75212 bytes)
sIMG_4814web.JPG (106591 bytes) Tree bark.
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River, below the gorge. sIMG_4824web.JPG (203641 bytes)
sIMG_4827web.JPG (82343 bytes) Scottish Festival, nearby the gorge.  Sheep herding.
Taber toss. sIMG_4835web.JPG (113534 bytes)
sIMG_4836web.JPG (111162 bytes) Only a couple of contestants could actually toss this thing!
This is basically, tossing a telephone pole!
You try it!
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