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Christmas?! Wasn’t it Thanksgiving just a few days ago?

Sigh.

Rather than let another year slip by without taking the opportunity, let me wish you and yours the very best for this joyful and sacred season — whichever season you may happen to call sacred — and more still in the coming year.

Merry Christmas, one and all.

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Best wishes to one and all for a warm and happy holiday season.

I had thought that — much like that ol’ tradition of Thanksgiving dinners past — I should make a list of all those things that I’m thankful for. And so I started that list. In the end it’s grown so long as to be unseemly… and posting it would seem altogether arrogant, and maybe a poke in the eye to anybody who’s not been so fortunate as me.

Suffice it to say, I am a profoundly lucky and grateful individual. And what I wish for you, really, is that the list of things for which *you* are grateful is so long as to startle you, too.

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An autumn tour of Mt. Mansfield, by way of Cambridge and Jericho, VT.
(Five images… click the snowy mountain to start.)

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Everybody loves a parade, and in Vermont, Independence Day is so loved that towns coordinate their event schedules so you can take in more than one. Waterbury’s parade was Saturday, June 30th, and, while herself and I arrived in plenty of time for the official start of the parade, that was *far* too late to jockey for a great viewing spot as folks had been camping up and down Main Street for hours. I tell ya… they love a parade. ;)

When — with a bang! — the 3rd Regiment Vermont Volunteer Infantry arrived on the scene, I dove in front of the crowds to catch some candid shots between volleys.

Vermont Civil War Hemlocks — click photo above to view the series.

Through the filter of the lens — with the parade crowds out of view, and the smell of black powder still hanging in the air — this group of reenactors make quite the striking portrait… and a poignant reminder that we’ve got still more men (and women) in harm’s way. Let’s get ‘em home safe.

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Happy Birthday to my big brother, Donnie, who as best I can recall is now *exactly* 30 years older than he was when this exceptionally attractive photo was taken. (Nice shot, Dad.)

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I know, I know… a crawfish boil isn’t a native Vermont tradition. And having mudbugs flown in live from Louisiana isn’t exactly in the spirit of that whole eatin’ locally thing. But sometimes ya just gotta do what ya gotta do.

Whooee. A good time, y’all. I guarontee.

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