Pictures Spring 2001

Here's a few pictures I have so far.

Vermont Late Winter/Early Spring Pictures (2001):

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This looked so promising, I pulled over and shot it from inside the car. A snow storm was sweeping down the mountainside. Tragically, I was at the end of the roll and a snow storm does now photograph at all well.

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This one came out a little better. Clear by me, but snowing heavily on the mountain.
Maybe Ansel Adams can photograph a snow storm sweeping down a mountain, but for mere mortals a snow storm turns out to look like specks of overexposed film all over the shot.

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View from the top of a hill with some nice mountains ... later I became blase about mountains, but at the time it was breathtaking.

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Here's a frozen waterfall ... very pretty and the blue is amazing.

Later in the Spring

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This waterfall is just in the back of someguy's yard in East Fairfield ... I was briefly jelous and thought I should have gotten a house with my own waterfall, or at least a stream.

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Here's my house! The boarded up window was knocked out by huge amounts of snow sliding off the roof ... when I first looked at the place, there was a pile of snow in this corner higher than my head. It was replaced with a nice double-pane pivoting type before I moved in. When I saw how nice the replacement was, I wished the house had had more windows knocked out.

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Here's the front door (never used) and the bay window ... looking closely at the larger pictures, you can see the cool frosted glass work.

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The back of my house ... on the right you can see where the snow had piled so high that it knocked down the chimney.

Trip to England -- Work trip, I was lucky Windsor Castle was within walking distance (just across the Thames), I got no time to be a tourist. I was in Eton, the home of the swankiest prepschool ever ... THE school for the royal family.

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Windsor Castle

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The castle's clock tower ... I understand it featured largely in the lives of young nobles, if the clock said you were late, there was no appeal.

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Some nice stone work and your classic 'bobby' guarding the "Henry the Eighth Gate" and talking to all the tourists. Again, I didn't have time for the tour.

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Statue of Queen Victoria ... is there something about distinct unattractiveness that goes with political power? I think you have to go back to Alexander the Great before you find someone attractive in a position of power.

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Notice the where the steps are going? The Thames was running a bit high.

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Geese swimming in a jogging path by the Thames.

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Some kids were feeding the geese, I thought it would make a cute shot. Naturally, by the time I got around the river to this spot the kids were gone ... the geese had not made the connection of kids == food and were waiting for more food to drop onto the water.