The Path of Totality

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Sometimes you really are in the right place at the right time, as we northern Vermonters found ourselves to be on April 8: right in The Path of Totality. As much as I thought I knew everything there was to know about seeing a solar eclipse, it proved otherwise, just mind blowing really. And there really is no way to describe the totality of the experience, it is just too staggeringly extraordinarily awesome (in the truest of that word’s definition). The whole 360 experience of changing light, the temperature drop, the suddenly visible planets Jupiter and Venus, the chatter of bird song, and of course The Dark Side of the Moon that seemed to be playing from everyone’s speakers. Totally cool.

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What April Brings

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Snow, snow and more snow… this seems to be the first of April’s gifts if in fact one views snow this time of year as a gift. I can’t complain at all really, for snow has been sparse this past winter, and a day tending the wood stove an easy occupation instead of my daily routine. As of now we still have power [she knocks on wood] so we are happy.

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Right on Target

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As they are apt to do, Target once again drew on the expertise of a known designer, Diane von Furstenberg, to collaborate on a playful collection that hit stores in a big flash this week. The release date coincided with a nor’easter here in Vermont, so I had to wait through the storm before scanning what was left on the racks. Thankfully, the one dress from the collection that stole my heart the minute I watched the first pre-launch ad was still available. Yellow is not normally my go-to color, but there is something so light and cheery about this particular shade that grabbed my imagination, it was a must have instantly! Spring is a wondrous feeling, right? Despite the snow underfoot I danced under the big sky sunshine prancing in this ginkgo patterned knit all afternoon.

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