Vermont Scenic Route 100 Byway

01/07/2025

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30/06/2025

👋 Everyone meet Shelley. She loves her Mom and Dad and spending time at . Her dog Mom commissioned a painted portrait of her in front of Killington Resort.

This was a surprise birthday present for her fur Dad.

I’m thrilled to say that this painting was a hit. Makes my day to hear this!

If you are interested in a commissioned piece, all info can be found in the link in my bio. Reach out if you have questions. Happy to chat custom art ideas with you.

https://carriepill.com/pages/commissions

29/06/2025

24/06/2025

We received a pretty unusual trail camera picture featuring two mature black bears together, a “sow” followed by a very large “boar,” and had to share!

You can really see how the boar, or male bear, has a heavier build around the head and shoulders. The way his ears and nose look tiny set against that big head are also good clues. The female bear, or sow, looks a little less hefty around the head and shoulders. A few more helpful field marks are how her nose and ears look bigger relative to the whole head than the boar's do.

Black bears mate from May through July in Vermont, and a boar and sow will travel together during that window. Other than mating season, most times you see bears together will be a sow and her young… so this scene is a neat, relatively rare capture!

📷 Thanks to an Addison County resident for sharing!

23/06/2025

Just in, the latest snowfall forecast for Monday and Tuesday ☃️

23/06/2025

SOUL PORPOISE ON THE ROCHESTER PARK

The funk and R&B band Soul Porpoise opens the Rochester Summer Park Series on Sunday, June 29, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.

Ira Friedman “surrounds himself with the best musicians,” says drummer Jay Gleason, like Giovanni Rovetto, a veteran of the Dave Grippo Band and the Ray Vega Band—both horn-heavy funk and jazz groups.

Guitarist Paul Asbell, a longtime member of the Middlebury College faculty, was a founding member of Kilimanjaro (that toured Russia!) and Big Joe Burrell and the Unknown Blues Band. But his blues roots came before that, when he was an integral part of the Southside Chicago blues scene, where he recorded with Muddy Waters, Paul Butterfield, Dave Bromberg, John Lee Ho**er, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and many other legends.

Asbell has “lived to tell the tale! This he has done in the recently published Ruminations, Rants, and Reminiscences on a Life in Music.

Collin Cope’s gritty vocals have been compared to Joe Cocker and Ray Charles. These he covers, as well as R&B chestnuts by Dr. John, Stevie Wonder, and others soul giants when he’s not singing Friedman’s original songs. Cope spices up these vocals with a tasty blues harp.

“Ira’s songwriting lights up the happy part of my brain,” says Jay Gleason. Friedman is no stranger to the Rochester stage, having played both in Pierce Hall and on the park several times with the Dave Keller Band (scheduled to on the Rochester Park July 27), and with Mark LeGrand. Friedman calls the Hammond B-3 “a living instrument … It growls. It breathes. It cries. There’s nothing like it.

We agree! Hear for yourself, and bring a picnic supper and wear your dancing shoes. The Rochester Summer Park Concerts are sponsored by the Rochester Recreation Committee, and happen every Sunday of the summer from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.
Credit:Joe Schenkman

23/06/2025

Vermont River Tubing is officially OPEN!
$20 per tube CASH ONLY
Open 10:00am-3:00pm
Monday-Sunday
*RESERVATIONS ONLY*
Please call 802-746-8450
We can’t wait to see our tubers ☀️☀️