Tag: Rosslyn boathouse

  • Essex Regatta 1960

    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?!

  • Blurry Boathouse

    Blurry Boathouse

    A blurry boathouse brooding over Blood’s Bay… Vintage postcard? B-roll for an old film? Although this sepia rendering of Rosslyn’s boathouse back on May 20, 2013 feels like it might have been made almost a century ago, it’s relatively new. New in Rosslyn terms, at least. Eleven years ago today. It’s a reminder that there’s…

  • Birthday Wish

    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!

  • April Oasis

    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…)

  • Placid Lake Day

    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…

  • Boathouse Restructuring

    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…

  • New Year Challenges

    New Year Challenges

    As I dip the tip of my toe into 2024 — chilly but refreshing so far — I receive an enticing invitation to join the WordPress Bloganuary challenge. Daily prompts conjoining, possibly rhyming the thematic current of multiple bloggers around the globe. And so it is that the first of my new year challenges (though…

  • Kestrel at Rosslyn Boathouse

    Kestrel at Rosslyn Boathouse

    This evening I return to a nostalgic snapshot steeped in the sepia tones of yesteryear. An artifact from our Rosslyn collection, this old photo was featured on February 24, 2014 in the Essex Community blog by Katie Shepard. As often, the discourse generated by this visual time, capsule provided valuable insight to the Kestrel, a…

  • Mary Wade Rock Art

    Mary Wade Rock Art

    Mary Wade’s Essex renderings are legendary. Her rock painting of Rosslyn’s boathouse depicts Rosslyn’s boathouse as viewed from the Essex-Charlotte ferry dock, an enterprise originally owned by her grandfather, if memory serves. This gift from Mary immediately became a favorite in our collection of her Rosslyn inspired creations. This certainly isn’t my first Mary Wade…

  • Brutalist Boathouse

    Brutalist Boathouse

    This past summer, our friend, Teel, visited us at Rosslyn. Her energy and unique perspective made for plenty of indelible memories, but she recently added another visual chapter to her Rosslyn legacy. For Susan’s birthday, she painted and gifted her this potent painting, a brutalist boathouse rendering as captivating as its subject. Originating in (and…

  • Boathouse Gangway Redux

    Boathouse Gangway Redux

    What a difference a year makes! Actually, Rosslyn’s boathouse gangway redux spans a 2-year timeline, but as a sort of Pollyanna prayer, let’s celebrate the progress since one year ago. The following excerpt and photograph appeared in my blog post one year ago today. Rosslyn’s boathouse gangway reboot… is back on track — safe, sturdy,…

  • Rosslyn Dock House & Crystal Spring Farm

    Rosslyn Dock House & Crystal Spring Farm

    A couple of weeks ago I received an email from friend and Essex neighbor, Todd Goff with a download link to that spectacular photograph above portraying an early 1900s panorama of the Essex waterfront. Actually, the image above has been shrunk down from a 9″ wide original and web optimized to accelerate load time (and…