Bohemian Square: Hippie yoga cat basks in the sunlight and welcomes you to Brattleboro, VT as well as to this New England photo album.
Bohemian Square: A lovely view of the Connecticut River taken from the West Dummerston Covered Bridge - by that gripped hand lower left corner you can see what I had to do to get this shot!
Bohemian Square: The Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge connecting New Hampshire to Vermont, the longest such bridge in the US - toll-free except for horseback riders per the sign.
Bohemian Square: A see of ferns at Quechee Gorge State Park, Quechee, VT.
Bohemian Square: One of a billion idyllic scenes at Sugarbush Farms just outside Woodstock, VT.
Bohemian Square: Wandering through the maples at Sugarbush Farms.
Bohemian Square: A chipotle grilled cheese made with local Plymouth cheddar and cornichons (yes!) as a side at Woodstock VT’s Mon Vert - this isn’t your mother’s grilled cheese. Unless your mother works in the kitchen at Mon Vert. Send her my regards if so.
Bohemian Square: The magnificent Moss Glen Falls directly on the magnificent VT-100 highway.
Bohemian Square: Sanders chocolate at the Warren Store (hmm - does Liz know about this?) in Warren, VT. Looking forward to trying the candy on offer from the other 22 candidates.
Bohemian Square: Setting sail on the Spirit Of Ethan Allen sunset cruise in Burlington, VT. A great moment when I realized that was an actual bird and not ornamentation stop that mini lighthouse.
Bohemian Square: Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
Bohemian Square: Sunset over Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks.
Bohemian Square: I don’t speak Botanic, but whatever this tree is that greeted us at Shelburne Farms in Shelburne VT I loved it.
Bohemian Square: The Shelburne Farms sheep are like, “Yeah, we get this view every day, big deal.”
Bohemian Square: On the Shelburne Farms roads, with hints of Lake Champlain around the turn.
Bohemian Square: A view of the Adirondacks from the gardens around the Shelburne Inn.
Bohemian Square: A panorama from the Shelburne Museum, taking in an old round barn, the crazy horseshoe-ish circus building, and a carousel.
Bohemian Square: Uncle Sam abusing a child as a goat runs away, an American allegory that we’ll not explore in deeper context, at the Shelburne Museum.
Bohemian Square: From the steering wheel of the Ticonderoga Steamship at the Shelburne Museum - I never learned the name of that mountain off in the distance, but I saw it all over the place in Burlington and it captivated me.
Bohemian Square: The waterfront of Burlington VT as sunset approaches.
Bohemian Square: Another beautiful Burlington sunset over Lake Champlain.
Bohemian Square: A small mantelpiece devoted to Canadian comics legend Seth (with a vintage “Gasoline Alley” Sunday to the left) at the Librairie Drawn & Quarterly in Montreal - another spot on my life’s pilgrimage.
Bohemian Square: Maple syrup pies for sale at the Marche Jean Talon in Montreal.
Bohemian Square: Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld - but is you can’t do that a Leonard Cohen mural would be great, thanks, from the lookout at Montreal’s Mont-Royal.
Bohemian Square: A line around the block for entering Montreal’s Notre Dame Cathedral - I looked at the diversity of the crowd and thought it had to be either the PM visiting or a school graduation - it was the latter, alas. Next time, Justin!
Bohemian Square: The interior of Montreal’s Notre Dame, about as lovely of a cathedral as mine eyes have ever seen. (And that includes the other cathedral with the same name.)
Bohemian Square: The amazing 1960s experiment in futuristic urban living, Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67, in Montreal.
Bohemian Square: The view of Montreal from Safdie’s personal apartment at Habitat 67.
Bohemian Square: The view from our room window at the Stonybrook Motel in Franconia, NH.
Bohemian Square: It may be cloudy & it may be the week before summer vacation starts for New Hampshire schoolers but it felt surreal to be by myself at Echo Lake in Franconia Notch SP.