the travel bug

I really haven't been traveling much this summer. Trying to save money. Trying to save gas. Biking places as much as I can. But after a planned trip to D.C. and Pittsburgh, I seem to have the travel bug. Or maybe it's just because it's fall and the leaves are turning.

I've been out the last couple of days driving around Vermont, despite some not so great weather, trying to get pictures. It's been okay, but there's been a couple of instances where nature seems to be closed.

Wednesday, I headed south on Route 100. With darker skies I wanted to try and get some shots of Moss Glen Falls in Granville. But it was closed. How do you close nature, you may ask? They're putting in a new walkway, so there were construction vehicles there. Not much room to park, and everything taped off. I probably could have stopped anyway and asked the workmen if it was okay to get some pictures, but liability-wise, I could see it being a problem.

Last night I went up to Montgomery, to a bridge I've been to a bunch of times. The bridge itself has been closed off to vehicular traffic for as long as I've been going there, but this time there were big "ROAD CLOSED" signs and construction vehicles. The good news is that it looks like they're trying to save the covered bridge. The bad news was that it looked pretty rough.

I was pretty much ready to just bail, but decided to climb down and see what it looked like downstream just a bit:

From below, and through the trees, you can barely tell there's any construction going on, except for the fact that there's no siding on the bridge and you can see the lattice work very clearly.