It’s a rather quiet week in the CWE so I thought I would share more photos from a trip to visit my friend Charlotte Lyons in Vermont in October. On our way from the Albany airport to North Bennington, we stopped at yücelesque, an antiques store housed in an old warehouse in Hoosicks Falls, NY.
The owner of the business has another antiques store in Brooklyn. The upstate location is quite large and well-curated. We learned that it is also used to store antiques that will eventually find their way to the Brooklyn store.
Adjacent to the antiques store is a space the owner is converting into a wine bar.
The photo above shows Charlotte Lyons with the shop manager.
The manager mentioned that a customer who stopped by was extremely surprised to see his father’s name painted on the bar, which was made from wood found on site, above.
The store’s owner is also an artist whose work decorates the wall in the future wine bar.
High on the list of favorite places I visited was Wing & a Prayer Farm in Shaftsbury, Vermont.
The tireless woman who runs the 20-acre fiber farm, Tammy White, isn’t photographed, but you can learn more about her and the farm on her website and on instagram. Tammy is a tour de force, whether caring for many different types of animals (one day she packed 10 of them into the truck and took them to the vet), or baking fabulous fruit pies for weddings and other catered events (she was baking 20 for a wedding the week I was there), or when hosting occasional crafting workshops on the farm.
The top photo show marigolds that were being used to dye wool shorn from the sheep. The second photo shows some of the resulting skeins of dyed wool in glorious colors that are for sale on Etsy.
There was also a quick visit to Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, Vermont, and time to snap a photo of Dennis Sparling’s Thomas Jefferson sculpture in Reader’s Park, adjacent to the bookstore.
48 hours in Vermont was enough time to know I want to return during peak autumn leaf season again. No one can adequately describe the beauty of the mountains covered in brilliant color. Be sure to put that experience on your wish list.