Overcast gray skies. Clouds and rain. Today is six straight days with no hope of blue skies. The only advantage is that we get to sleep in every day. With no sun, there is no sunrise to shoot.
Today's objective was the Mad River Valley. The Mad River parallels Highway 100 down a beautiful valley with ridges on both side. Although the leaves were past prime color on the ridges, we still got a taste for how amazing it could be. With the dark overcast skies, the leaves seemed very subdued. I'd love to see it on a bright sunny day.
Our first stop was Waitsfield Covered Bridge
in Waitsfield,
the oldest covered bridge in Vermont. We stopped in at a Christmas
shop to find our Christmas ornament for this trip. We met a very
colorful woman that gave us the scoop on the history of Vermont
and of the Mad River Valley. She was great. We now know that
Waitsfield is the geographic center of Vermont, and that the Vermont
legislature voted to impeach "Shrubby" and Chaney (Chaney
said people shouldn't use four letter words, so they have to
call George W. "Shrubby").
After our history and geography lesson, we continued down the Mad River Valley. We found the stretch of the Mad River that I had read about on the Vermont Foliage forum. Although the trees were past prime, it was still a great area.
We shot for about 2.5 hours along a stretch that was about a 1/2 mile long.
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We finished the day at Moss Glen
Falls. I had seen photos of the falls and was completely unimpressed.
Because of all the rain over the past week, the falls were running
above average for the fall season. Although it isn't a very high
waterfall, the water spreads out into thin veils. With a slow
shutter speed, it turned out to be pretty impressive. The waterfall
images turned out to be some of my favorite of the trip.
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And then it started raining harder. That was our cue to quit early and start back for the motel.
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