North Hero, Vermont 6/10/21

A Vermont sunrise is crimson and blue before it rises over New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Birds begin their first fling at the day with the first hint of light. 

 

Out the window of Shore Acres beautifully restored 60’s motel resort, white caps stream on Lake Champlain’s Inland Sea from a cool northeast wind, that also scatters the peony’s pink and white leaves.

 

Since there are no legions of 737’s, 747’s, 777’s, MD-11’s and their indistinguishable Airbus brethren, the air is clear leaving the sun’s rays unfiltered by soot.

 

Eastward over the water are the foothills of the White Mountains the landscape has a certain look: 

 

-Blue gray water capped in white lead the eye to a green shoreline darker in the foreground and lighter further on.

 

-A few emerald green fields of fodder are highlighted by the low angle of the morning sun.

 

-This layer of rich greens gives way to a whitish-gray haze, which gradates as it rises with the distant mountain into a grey with deep violet overtones and then to an equally hazy blue sky.

 

With the light as it is at 6:30 AM Mt. Washington’s slanting ridges – north to south, bottom to top - are discernable. 

 

It is a nice way to wake even if it began before five and breakfast is not until 7:30!