; Bed & Breakfast 6198 VT Rte 100 on the Missisquoi River in Troy, VT 05868 802-744-9991
With Photos by Gustav Verderber. 
SPRING arrives in our area heralded by song birds, northbound geese, and land-locked salmon struggling upstream against the melting snows to spawn.
The season of re-emerging life, the warm spring sun brings a promise of abundance - a genuine feeling of well-being that cannot be explained. Spring is the season for working the soil - for fishermen to return to favorite lakes, rivers and streams - for the making of resolutions about getting done those undone things resolved last spring. It is the time for getting in that last weekend of skiing, for making syrup and sugar candy from the sap of the maple tree, for making vacation plans . . . 
 SUMMER is the active season. Farmers are working their fields, mares are seen roaming with their newborn foals, duffers and pros are taking advantage of long warm daylight hours to improve their golf. Lake Memphremagog is flecked with white sails or tranquil - almost oblivious to small fishing boats slowly trolling for the trout that live in the cold-deep water channel. Summer is the season for hiking the Long Trail, the season for camping, white-water canoeing, kayaking, biking, enjoying an evening outdoor concert on the town greens, or just sitting quietly in a wood enjoying a picnic or capturing small animals and birds on film. 
FALLis the season of color. Fall is hunting - walking quietly through the forest on a carpet of still-moist golden leaves. It is the season for country fairs, church suppers, wild game dinners, old time fiddling and banjo events, country auctions, and antique collecting - a time for travel, for sight-seeing, for wonder at the multi-hued display of brilliant purple, scarlet and gold. Fall is watching the sky for flocks of geese by days, and the shimmering sheets of the aurora borealis by night. The days are still warm, but nights are cooler now - a hint of frosts to come . . . 
WINTER is fun time. The first early snows of mid-November reveal parallel tracks of bear, moose and man along the hillside. Less ambiguous are footprints leading to deer runs along the wooded ravines and to the edge of deserted apple orchards.
Later comes ice-fishing, snowmobiling, dog-sled races, sleigh rides, ice skating and curling.
Winter is an aerial tram ride to the top of Jay Peak for superb down hill skiing and snowboarding, or a leisurely glide through woods and across meadows with good friends - ski touring. It is apres-ski: laughter, music and dancing, good cheeses and good wines. Winter is a wonderland, a white Christmas, or a time for sitting by the fire with a good book . . .
Whatever the season, the Jay Peak area of the northeast region of Vermont is the place for exploration; of nature and of self - a perfect family getaway. Relaxation therapy is an art, and the right amount of it just seems to come naturally here. All of the photographs on this page are by the area's own Gustav Verderber ... "One of Vermont's foremost nature photographers" Vermont Magazine ... Kodak Ambassador since 2002. Please visit his website where you can view more of his work and make a purchase. The images are the property of and copyrighted by the artist. They are used here with permission. Further use or reproduction requires permission of the artist.                    
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