This past weekend was peak color here in Central Vermont. My milk delivery routes this week were absolutely stunning; I could have rented out the passenger seat in the truck and it would have made a pretty impressive leaf-peeper tour. Jakobi travlled to Thetford for a cross country race among the beauty and on Sunday we took a nice walk in the autumnal splendour just outside our house!
Moon!
Ambiana & Friends…
…arrived on Saturday (Her and Tim biked the 40 miles from Burlington to experience the color) and spent a few hours pressing apples into cider then sat around the campfire and sang songs and had a nice sauna. After 2 weeks of a mostly empty homestead it was nice to have it filled with voices and people!
Hatch Quarry Fossil Hunt
On Sunday i drove out past Vergennes for my second field trip with the urlington gem & Mineral Club. This time we were hunting crinoids, brachipods and gastropods fossils laid down on the seafloor of the Iapetus Ocean 450 million years ago. Tectonic activity has since thrust this ancient ocean bed up over the younger rocks all the way to the shore of lake Champlain.
I found lots of crinoids and a few gastropods and came home with another big box of rocks!
Gastropod
Coral
Meanwhile in Greece…
Colleen spent her last days alone and came across this ancient bathhouse….
…before meeting up with Stacey in Athens…
…where they toured the Pathenon…
…and then met up with Ann and Debbie to start their weeklong celebration of the 50th year birthdays!
