Tag: Lake Champlain
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Essex Regatta 1960
An archival flashback to the 11th Essex Regatta (and 34th Westport Regatta) as featured in August and September 1960 Valley News articles. Ready for summer?!
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Downriver Drifting
Sunday stream of consciousness riffling from birdsong to riverine rambling (and deftly sidestepping the complex concerns of Sarah McCartt-Jackson’s poem, “Borrow”.)
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Birthday Wish
I’m investing my 2024 birthday wish and willing Lake Champlain’s water levels to fall, fall, fall. Sure do hope it tips the scale!
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April Oasis
Meditating on the lakeside sanctuary that seduced us nearly two decades ago (and with which we remain smitten even as we begin let go…)
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April Sky
With an eye to the historic eclipse only two days away, let’s embrace the sometimes eerie and inauspicious energy of this powerful place. April Sky Drama darkening,a tempest threatens.Clouds brood, silence booms,preluding downpour. Lake, mountains, boathousegrow unfamiliar. Thunder growls afarechoes echoing,Valkyries vaunting. Spectacle unfolds,forebodings menace,the lake bears witness.
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Milky Morning
A lyrical look at lakeside awakening, a groggy boathouse, and winter weather induced escapism.
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Full Moon Hangover
Did you see the full moon last night? Spectacular! I snapped this photo of the moon illuminating a cinematic moonbeam extending from Vermont’s Green Mountains to Rosslyn’s boathouse. It was a breathtakingly beautiful prologue for the full moon insomnia that Susan and I experienced last night (and the full moon hangover that I’ve been enduring…
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Ice Flow
Lake Champlain ice flows are legendary. But 2023-4 did not deliver the shore-to-shore ice that during our early Rosslyn winters and springs were as predictable as months of snow. And, in many respects, that’s a relief given the currently heightened water level which has been hovering around 98.5’ above NGVD 1929 for about a week.…
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Placid Lake Day
Ah, moments like this. A placid lake day inspiring a seasonality sing song. Lake Champlain’s surface silky smooth, disrupted only by the wakes of paddling Canada Geese. Temperatures warm enough to tempt daydreams of spring despite dipping temps (and possibility of precipitation) next week. Bluebird dome above — with just the faintest whisper of cloud…
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Boathouse Restructuring
Today we turn the calendar back 16 years to Rosslyn’s boathouse restructuring. Some eighteen months or so into our rehabilitation project we had already sailed past our most generous timeline for completion. And the end was far from near. In fact, the finish line continued to retreat the more we advanced upon it. And, as…
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Mute Muse: Swan Song
Two years ago today the mute swan returned to Rosslyn’s reopened “duck pond” and — for an all too brief interlude — we celebrated. Many of us indulged a moment of optimism that the solitary bird, ill equipped for our harsh winter conditions, might manage to make it to spring. Let’s rewind just a little…