Harvest Moon

Full moon, the "Harvest" moon, last night. Mushrooms and the like growing in the lawn in the back. The Vermont state fair has come and gone, wrecked cars from the demolition derby on trailers in the usual places in West Rutland. Leaves and pine needles on the carpet at work. Smoke from a chimney.

season of yellow

green-headed coneflower

jerusalem artichoke

sunflower

sawdust

boneset

 

 

Cloudy. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed a hatch taking place down by Rte 7 when I was driving home. Often that coincides with an ant hatch that takes place along the sidewalk at Tuttle. Sure enough, when I got to work the next day, the signs of the hatch were apparent. The high school sports season has started; field hockey game observed at Otter Valley High School. Smell of sawdust from the wood pile in the back.

snow ball trees

Rainy. Jewelweed and Pearly Everlasting in bloom. Bridge inspectors from Ithaca, New York were on our bridge on Monday morning. There was a picture of a woman from our meditation group volunteering with Restoring Rutland in the Herald the other day. PG Hydrangeas on bloom. A co-worker calls them snow ball trees.

september

Rainy.  Cutting wood in the back on Labor Day weekend.  The toads and crickets supervising as usual at this time of year. The Vermont State Fair has begun. Leaves starting to cascade from the trees when the wind blows; sound of these same leaves scraping on roads and sidewalk. Dragonflies starting to cluster as they begin their September migration. Some of the usual sights and sounds of September in Vermont.

come and gone

This photo is of Rte. 7, the main roadway north and south in western Vermont. It is closed north and south of Rutland. I saw a huge semi do a U turn across four lanes of traffic just a little bit north of here. Rutland is actually bustling these days with traffic and construction workers passing through. I actually saw a couple of screwdrivers and assorted items lying in the road at the intersection of Rtes. 4 & 7. They must have fallen out of someone's truck. There is a lot of traffic on Cold River Road. It must be some kind of a detour.
School has started albeit a day late in some areas because of the storm. The Addison Farm and Field days have come and gone as have the birds that were singing in the morning back in June.

you can't get there from here

There's an old saying in Vermont, "You can't get there from here." Unfortunately it appears to be true these days. I've never known what it's like to live in a disaster zone, now I do.
On Monday night I saw a convoy of Army trucks driving on Rte. 133 in Ira. It's not unusual to see 3 to 4 utility trucks together on the roads. Saw a Red Cross semi apparently hauling in supplies in Rutland yesterday. Helicopters flying overhead. A co-worker is part of an ATV team hauling supplies to Rochester on Friday. The roads there are gone. The traffic light in West Rutland is still not working. I saw a guy in a pick up truck directing traffic there yesterday from inside his truck.