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Lake Champlain on a Perfect Summer Day 

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Another Year 

Lake Champlain froze over

In the distance 

Ice Fishermen

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The days like this day are as perfect a day as this one,

The Marvelous View of Lake Champlain

Summertime.

A day We can treasure these days long ago,

Far away,

Yet always like Yesterday.

MG

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View of Lake Champlain 

Adirondacks in the Background 

From Mount Philo State Park

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Poppa Neutrino

Aging

Ageism

What a Guy!

https://traveloguefortheuniverse.blogspot.com/search?q=Poppa

https://www.adventure-journal.com/2022/08/poppa-neutrino-floated-through-a-wild-life-on-jazz-and-a-raft-made-of-trash/

2011 Building The Crown Point NY- VT

In 2011, We were detoured across the Lake on a ferry while the Bridge was rebuilt. 

It’s a fine bridge.

The Other 2011 Vermont Flood

The Other Flood of 2011

What made me think of it was the recent press about the 5 year anniversary of tropical storm Irene. It devastated parts of Vermont. I thought I'd done a YouTube of Irene but how could I have? I searched and found my movies from the spring flood of Lake Champlain. 

Also found this link on the internet:

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/serious-flooding-on-lake-champ/49193

My movies...

The Other Flood.

Another Year 3

Lake Champlain

A wonderful day yesterday,
with friends, food,
children busy running around.
by this big, beautiful lake.
(were we all together in another time? another era?)
Photos from Another Year. meg

Fragile Water

Lake Champlain

We took pictures from the Spirit of Ethan Allen.
It was a perfect day.

Lake Champlain

Lake Champlain is freezing over,

In South Hero

Rugged ice fishermen

Brave subzero temperatures

Crow flying over frozen lake

The Speed of #fracking

 the speed of fracking,
ranging from threats to the earth's integrity,
groundwater,
soil
potential contamination,
many would predict it is inevitable,
AND HAPPENS EVERY DAY...

now,

foreign corporations poking around peoples' backyards,
Vermonters who,
30 years ago,
may have drawn a piece.
now, a kinder, gentler vermont,
tired-er
poor-er,
with unseen forces helping the frackers...
farckers making
threats of suing, wanting to
cram pipelines thru our precious
vermont

 images of vermont

did u know it freezes here?

5 feet or more down,

you can't even bury a body in the winter,

the vermont public service board said, hey, 3 feet, that's cool...

huh???

and finally, an article articulating the necessity for reconsideration of a pipeline...
dude,
they can transport gaz a different way...

http://www.ngadvantage.com/news/press-releases/rutland-vermont-using-natural-gas-advance-pipeline

Breaking (Bad) #fracking

History will show that

all we had were words and photos and love of the land.

would that be enough to stop the frackers?

Break our dependence of fossil fuels (that would be dinosaur fossils...)

Had hoped for a break from the bad news about frackin', 

That Friday could be devoted to restful contemplation.

Then this grim reminder...

http://online.wsj.com/article/APc22ed4b9b0eb440f8b23a5ce223c5f9f.html

here is what wsj left out:

1. "Vermont" Gas is owned by a big Canadian energy company.

2. Vermont maple syrup must come from Vermont, be made in Vermont or the state will sue you.

3. $35,000 is chump change. Hmm...where will the $121 million come from to pay for ? (is advertant a word...like the opposite of inadvertant?) dare I say, perhaps Intentional?? overrun?

121 million minus 35 thousand....

4. These Gaz people do not have the permits, the soil studies.

5. Weary of defending the lake. Defend it we must!

Keep pipelines out of the water, the wetlands, the dry lands, this land is someone's land.

Snow Ghosts & Frozen Lakes

Happy for archival photos,
Never tiring of images of snow, or the frozen lake.
Each snap of the shutter, an experiment,
A moment captured, then gone.

Lake Champlain, Ice, Fog & Sun

Like steam, fog is produced as the lake freezes.
A shanty appears,
a hearty soul.
  

Lake Champlain

Lake Champlain

 

the building of the crown point bridge

 

Summer Memories

 

It was a fine Summer day.
This week, dipping way below zero degrees f
Nice to have images of beautiful summer days
 

Lake Champlain

Friends treated us to a trip on a boat tour on Lake Champlain.
It was a beautiful clear sky day save a few scattered clouds and rain showers in the Adironadacks.

Lake Champlain bridge update 9.3.11

my latest video of the bridge:

http://youtu.be/lcZoIHq1YDw

We have become nomads for bargains and went across the lake
to find cheap and bulk foods.
This has led us to watch by stages the bridge going up.
We are fortunate to have the vantage point of the
LCT ferry.
Saturday we had a pleasant day and the lake
was beautiful.
Soon we will just drive across
A fine looking bridge.