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Vermont—It’s not just cows and cheese and maple syrup

Posted Oct 4, 2009 by Loren Omoto

Updated Oct 8, 2009 at 12:29 AM

As Florida is to flamingos and palms, Vermont is to cows and maple syrup.

We’ve got more than a few houses painted flamingo pink in Tampa, so it’s only natural Vermont would have houses saluting its celebrated critter.

We spotted this house driving across the very rural northern part of the state. The farther east we went, the more beautiful foliage we saw.

We were visiting my sister in the Northeast Kingdom, a rugged part of Vermont near the Canadian border. Here, the towns are few and far between and comprise just a few hundred hardy residents. The area is notorious among smugglers, because it’s so sparsely populated and remote. Just the other day, the subject of an international dragnet was arrested in little Derby Line, about 5 miles from my sister’s home.

Suffice to say, residents here don’t mess around with safety.

(This was at my sister’s house!)

If you want to be more inviting than threatening, here’s another beautiful concept. Look how the flowers echo the colors of the house. (It’s hard to tell in this photo, but the door trim is pale yellow.)

And to end on a “fall gardens we’ll never have” note, here’s one more pic: