This past weekend was one of the rare, precious weekends during which I was not working! My husband won a night at an inn over a year ago at a race in VT, and we waited patiently for there to be a free weekend. Luckily our availability coincided with fabulous foliage, so we decided to make a weekend out of it! I was super excited because I had never set foot in VT – bizarre for a girl born and raised in New England!
Our plan: see a quarry (a la Edward Burtynsky, one of my favorite photographers), go on the Ben and Jerry’s factory tour to see how ice cream is made (one of our goals is to do a factory tour of the US), go to a farm to see how maple syrup is made, gaze upon foliage, relax, shop at designer outlets, and enjoy a night at The Reluctant Panther.
What happened: the quarry closed the day before (curses!), Ben and Jerry’s was not making ice cream (but we went on the tour anyway), the farm was not making maple syrup (but we bought lots of cheese – including sage cheese!), the foliage was spectacular, we did not do much relaxing because we were in the car for most of the time (I read zero of the six magazines I brought), and the designer outlets were really expensive despite being outlets (I drooled over the Betsey Johnson outlet but bought nothing). It was all worth it, though, because The Reluctant Panther was the best place EVER. You should all book nights there immediately! Our room was a colorful oasis designed by Susan Sargent and was just my style.
This trip was good because the aimlessness of it reminded me of why I initially became interested in photography. I used to walk around NYC finding things to take photos of when I didn’t have anywhere in particular to be or anything in particular to do. Our weekend in VT brought me back to these roots – I’d wanted to take photos of the quarry and the factory, but the quarry was closed and there was no photography allowed in the factory. I had to stumble upon photos, and it was great.
I put together some of my favorite photos from this weekend. Enjoy!
by leahlar
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