September 20, 2006
Stockbridge Vermont Autumn2006
The White River flows alongside this secondary road on the other bank of the White River from
the meeting of Vermont's Rt. 107 and Rt.100. The Lamb Spring... one of a half dozen great
Vt. springs continually monitored for purity... is nestled into the hillside by Blackmer Boulevard.
............With Julie and Werner up to save the 'shack'. The concrete piers holding the 'shack'
up on our hilside since the early seventies have responded to a very wet 2006 spring/summer
by tipping downhill as our saturated hillside slumped. Our only real painting break from foundation
stabilizing or brushcutting site work was at the Lamb Spring for water or our morning moments
sitting at the breakfast table and looking out at the maple at the edge of the spring hillside across
our waving yellow meadow crown of goldenrod. [Tim brought Beau's DR Brushcutter over and
it was two days of wrestling with her bowflex on wheels and today the wildflower's meadow
overgrowth of blackberry canes has been wrestled down along with its goldenrod covering.]
Somewhere in the archives I've an early morning sunstruck watercolor of the same maple tree
from the same breakfast table at the same time. The sun shines over Little Vulture Mountain and
onto our wildflower meadow by ten in the morning this close to Autumn Solstices. The same maple
from more than 30 years ago watercolored from sapling to the above. Here it is in the original
silver and gold inlined mat from the late 80's framed painting in my 'Up to the Past' one man show.
There's an archive of paintings produced from loving this Rt. 107heart of Vermont for 40+ years.
September 08, 2006
Gourmet dinner at the 'SHACK' in Vt.
-----VIDEOSPHERE themselves, Werner and Julie prepare
a gourmet dinner for our guests Tim and Beau, Sept.7th,06
The blue Vermont afterlight beside the Lilliesville Brook is
a luminous blue when the incandescent orange light of out
great chandelier and the kitchen area work table and dinner
table hanging lamps create a warm interior. Bright yellow
rain gear outfits hang on the walls with a Charles Burchfield
print.... Beyond the stove the door is open, it's weathered
hemlock planking brought inside the 'SHACK' with the blue
afterlight oustside. The top of our woodstove and its black
stove pipe reach up into the work table lamp, a blue window
completes the background. Julie is preparing thyme for the
feast and Werner's busy with her other dinner time herbs.
It was cool enough and with a light drizzle a little a fire in
the woodstove added to the Vermont ambience. On our
kitchen worktable is the painting above at an early stage.
This brief visit was all work as Werner and I managed to
straighten the tipping cement pier under the 'SHACK'....
and a lot left to do before winter. We will, it seems, find
necessary time to be in Vermont for the foliage this year,