Vermont
August 2013
Our weather today is pleasant, comfortable, delightful even. We have wispy clouds, reasonably warm temperatures. It’s August, it’s summer, one of New England’s seasons. Summer is followed by autumn, of course, and then by stick season. When Earth is on the other side of the sun, spring for most, New England experiences mud season. The very trails we walk today here on Mount Mansfield are closed during mud season, from early April until Memorial Day weekend.
The water for which we may have to look
In summertime with a witching wand,
In every wheelrut’s now a brook,
In every print of a hoof a pond.
— Robert Frost
Others describe the four New England seasons thus…
. almost winter
. winter
. still winter
. road construction