Fall:


Crawford Notch NH

   Fall in New England's  North Country is as beautiful as anywhere in the world.  The intensity  of the foliage varies somewhat year to year but it never ceases to amaze me.
  Mother nature is by far a better designer than the most talented engineer, or architect.
Crawford Notch is a great place to view the Foliage, the Flume and Silver Cascades falls can be seen from the road.
Leaf Peepers  not to be confused with Spring Peepers,  drive me nuts!
Never drive closer than 50 yards off the rear of a leaf peepers car!  They are a very unpredictable species and can be dangerous, stopping suddenly or changing directions in a moment without warning.

While on vacation in Florida several years back I was driving through the central part of the  state, it is cattle country, miles of pasture and woods, I was peeping, ......... when a local Floridian, Florida Cracker honked as he flew by me signaling to me that I was number one? Well he was showing me one finger anyway so I'm sure that's what he meant.  I'm not so hard on the leaf peepers now.

We will discuss spring peepers in a few months, they are much safer to be around.


Martin Farm, Guildhall VT

I always love working on the farm of my friends Richard and Murial Martin of Guildhall, VT.
The Kilkenny and Presidential Range of New Hampshire's White Mountains can be seen from the  tractor seat while working the farms several hundred acres of Connecticut River meadows.
The last cutting of grass waits the harvester, then corn will be harvested and fed as silage to the  herd of 400 registered Holsteins.



are  some of my favorite places to camp.
Sugarloaf II  in Twin Mt. NH and Jigger Johnson campground off the kancamagus highway are my favorites  Camping is a great way to see the foliage and the prices are reasonable.


Sugarloaf Campground White Mountains National Forest Twin Mountain N





















Jigger Johnson was a logger who ran logging camps through out the Northern Woods of New Hampshire and Maine in the early 1900's this campground was named in his honor. More on Logging in a later post.

Jigger Johnson Campground



This is my first post, I still need to figure out how to properly align the text with the pictures. By the way I do not teach English so I'm sure my writing needs some work as well I wanted to  cover more today but, I'm pooped it took way to long to figure out the alignment problems. I hope you enjoy what I have posted so far and I welcome your comments.

All original pictures and script  © 2011 Philip H. Slocum all rights reserved

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