We decided to defy the near hysteria of the Weather Channel (we got four or five inches, not 10 or 15, we went out for breakfast at the Cambridge Diner on Main Street.
The diner was only half full; many hardy farm families had their vast trucks parked outside. It was fun to drive through the storm; the roads were plowed, and the car had no trouble.
Main Street is essentially unchanged from two hundred years ago. It is one beautiful block containing the dinner, the Hubbard Hall Arts Center, and the Battenkill Bookshop – and is much as it looked during the Civil War.
It’s a great place to photograph. We came home (I had an omelet with broccoli and tomato and saw the snow on our two pine trees, which I always wanted to cut down.
Cooler heads prevailed. I’m going out to help Mara feed the animals shortly and hope there might be another good Winter Pasture somewhere.
I love these pictures. The snow adds intensity I think ; you just have to look.
What a stunning monochrome photo of a beautiful Main Street. We live one of the many tiny towns in CT where we don’t have a Main Street, just a pizza shop and a restaurant scattered along the main roads through town. But we do have a diner, of sorts, called Flat Pennies Kitchen as it’s right along the railroad tracks that run through the area. It’s always busy when we drive by, but we don’t take time to stop in often enough. I’ll have to change that in 2024.
Jon, Love, LOVE the PINE TREES in the snow and LOVE that cooler heads prevailed. It is 8 degrees in Big Bear CALIF. Windy and COLD in Los Angeles. Gorgeous skies. Bracing Air. LOVE that you went out for breakfast on Main Street.