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11 Oct Fall Foliage report | The route home from Danby VT
Foliage is gone in south west Vermont, look to Champlain valley
by Jeff "Foliage" Folger
outside view of the Silas Griffith House B&B
Common room.
One of two of the Arlington covered bridges
The west Arlington Bridge is just down the road from the old home of Painter Norman Rockwell.
I love old sheds and barns...
The view from on high. Some color but going fast.
Some cows enjoying the sunny afternoon...
Greetings Leaf Peepers
Travel report:
Oct 11th (Sunday) We woke up to a little partly cloudy morning and said good bye to the Silas Griffith B&B this is a definite come back to place. Kathy has created a comfortable place for people to stop at. The sitting rooms are set up for adults or kids and they had a wide screen TV with every game console you could imagine hooked to it. So if it rains and you stick around the common room the kids shouldn't drive you... too nuts?
We hit the road and drove to Arlington where we located two covered bridges and I found a stream that was behind an antique store that used to be a grist mill.
We then stopped at the Norman Rockwell exhibit which by the way is in a sugar shack! Yes I don't kid you and our opinion is if you want Norman Rockwell then go to Stockbridge MA. I will say their apple cider doughnuts are great as are the rest of the edibles they have there.
We traveled over 313 into NY and down route 22 until we picked up route 2 back into the Berkshires. Anyone who has never driven that winding steep road between the NY border and Williamstown is missing it. It's too late for this year but make sure you do it next year. The biggest trouble I had was gawking and not hitting the guard rail.
We both feel an entire day needs to be given to North Adams and Williamstown. The MoCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) in North Adams and Williams College in the latter are such that on a sunny afternoon you will be hard pressed to not spend days there...
We stopped at the Eagles nest for dinner with the sun setting and while the food was very good and their signature mulled apple cider drink was very warming on a cool afternoon (44 degrees) the service was a little distracted... maybe it was the valley view's? It's good to do once but I'd like to hear if anyone else had a different take on this place..
We continued in on the Mohawk trail and the sun soon set. My only disappointment was that the color all day had been less than stellar and a waitress at the Eagle's Nest said she thought the rain had drained the color over night. I mean I had found great color the day before but today the colors were muted all through the south west VT into NY and back along the Mohawk Trail.
Ideas for color this week!
I saw a post from Linda, a photographer who lives near Barre VT, said they got a killing frost last night but also that the warmer area around the Lake Champlain should still be good all week long!
Well that is all for this trip, where should I go next??? What do you think?
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Reader Comments
Comment from Bill Clarke on October 13, 2009
You should have stopped at the cheese store in Arlington. Their Truck Driver is the best aged cheddar I have ever had - bar none.
Comment from Jeff Folger on October 18, 2009
Truck driver is the name of the cheese I hope.. :-)
Comment from Jeff Folger on October 18, 2009
Truck driver is the name of the cheese I hope.. :-)
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