The Silver Lining

Here in New England we've had an unusually cool and rainy summer so far. I'm pretty sure it's rained almost every day since summer started. Since we have about 6 months of cold winter and flannel sheets, I live for the summer months when it's warm and sunny. The upside to this weather is the dramatic cloudy skies that we've had each day. They've been nothing short of amazing! The cloudscapes remind me of Maxfield Parrish paintings. He lived a few miles from Vermont in Plainfield, New Hampshire for most of his life. Now I can see where he got his inspiration.
I've been driving around for the last week with my camera and captured some of the beauty to share with you. I even found a poem to include with the post, that you'll find at the end.
Enjoy!

On Shelburne Pond
Hinesburg
The next few are in Williston


Here's one taken through the car windshield looking toward Mount Mansfield. Don't worry, I was the only one on the bridge.Hinesburg
Our home would be right in the middle of this one.
Williston


TO A SUMMER CLOUD

I sail with you
The heavens blue, Transported into regions new.
On lightest wing
I soar and sing,
And quaff the cool elysian spring.
Without a care
To drift in air; Oh! who would not such rapture share?
Thus glad and free
Our course shall be O'er verdant land and shimmering sea.
Your fleeces white
With silvery light,
So shining fair, so softly bright,
E'en now they fail;
Yet why bewail
The change to yonder lucent veil
That floateth by
To faint and lie,
A fading speck in azure sky?
A moment's grace,
A film of lace,
That too has gone, nor left a trace.
Yet still I seem,
As in a dream,
To sail the swift aerial stream;
And still on high
My soul doth fly on joyful wing through ample sky.

--Emily Tolman, 1914