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Sunday Stills: Bridges
Vermont Covered Bridges Bridge: “A structure spanning and providing passage over a gap.” Mill Bridge, Tunbridge, Vermont Quintessential Vermont landscape includes old farmhouses, towering barns worn from years of harsh weather, and quaint covered bridges. With this week’s Sunday Stills challenge being bridges, I set out today from our farm in search of covered bridges. I drove along one of … Read More
Yarn Along: Irish Fishermen, Ganseys, and Shepherds
New Books to Read I have always wanted to design a VT Grand View Farm Gansey using stitches and patterns that would tell our family’s story. It would not be a story of ocean waves, sea breezes, and fishing dinghies, but rather a story of farming, mountain tops, and shepherding sheep. I envisioned a sweater, knit with the wool from our … Read More
Stop and Consider
Gathering a Winter Bouquet In the winter months, I go for a snowshoe walk nearly every day. After doing chores and tending to the sheep, I grab my snowshoes, and head up to the woods at the top of our pasture. The other day, my daughter went along. Anna is a photographer. She carries her big camera around her neck … Read More
Sunday Stills: White
Winter has set in with force on VT Grand View Farm, bringing snow on snow on snow…… Snow falls steady at VT Grand View Farm Taking on the challenge of Sunday Stills-Adventures in Photography!
Vermont Hat Day
Fence Line The clear blue Vermont sky and fresh fallen snow, from last night’s snowstorm, lured me outside this winter morning, despite the thermometer reading of minus 10 degrees. I bundled in multiple layers, pulled on my wool felt hat, slid my camera in my pocket, and headed outside. I noticed that I was not the only one wearing a … Read More