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Animals in a City

While contemplating what I want to write about the New Hampshire Sheep and Wool Festival, life gave my darling Joe another excuse to travel and I found myself yet again in Southern Vermont (not that I complain).

Immediately I found an excuse to visit my favorite spinnery there – The Green Mountain Spinnery:

Home of the friendliest spinners in Vermont

Greem Mountain Spinnery

My excuse this time: I am not sure I have enough meadow yarn to finish my Dandelions Shawl! (Unfortunately they had only 4 skeins of this wonderful color and not surprisingly they sold all of them in New Hampshire but they ordered one for me from the dyer so I just have to wait.)

But, actually as the header of this post suggest, I wanted to show you today some moose we encountered on our way back:

Moosefest, Bennington, Vermont

Sofia and Shamoose, Moosefest, Bennington, Vermont


Mooses all over Bennington, Vermont

Morpheus, Bennington, Vermont


Another of those Mooses

Vincent: I think he is related to Sofia and Shamoose from the other photo,,,


The Hippy of the Bennington Moose Fest, May 2009

Ziggy the Hippy-Pot-O-Moose of the Bennington MooseFest, May 2009


Covered Bridge Moose in Bennington, VT, May 2009

Covered Bridge Moose in Bennington, VT, May 2009

This one was my favorite, it is made of thousands of tiny photos:

Close up of the Bridge Moose

Close up of the Picture This Moose

I think his name is Picture This but I nicknamed it: The Covered Bridge Moose. It caught the attention of other passers-by:

Girls Checking the Bridge Moose, Bennington, VT, May 2009

Girls Checking the Bridge Moose, Bennington, VT, May 2009


These ladies found the Bridge Moose facinating too

These ladies found the Bridge Moose facinating too

We even found one in the The Village Chocolate Shoppe:

Yummy Moose

Yummy Moose

Apparently they have a Moosefest in Bennington, Vermont these days:

Even the moose get their own crossing in Bennington, VT

The moose get their own crossing in Bennington, VT

When you invite a lot of moose to your town, you better take good care of them, just like they do in Bennington, VT.

This is the third time we encounter animals in a city. The first ones were penguins in Tel Aviv (Scroll down), unfortunately I couldn’t locate any photos of them, I think it was in 2000 or so. The second time was in Sedona when  Margene and Smith came to visit Arizona and we found all those Javelinas in the streets of Sedona. And now the Moosefest, I wonder where and what we will find next!

Time Wrap

I am going in reverse here but I just realised I still didn’t show you photos of the Sequoias from our recent trip to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, in California.

My first encounter looked like this:

Wow it is so big and tall, amazing

Then we found more and more of them:

Those Sequoia trees are really amazing

After inspecting the inside of a group of Sequoias I tried to see if they reach the clouds:

Very impressive indeed, when you stand near the Sequoia trees

And this is what I saw:

Awesome, breath taking trees

Joe wanted me to go up one but I sent him instead:

Joe on a Sequoia tree

The most famous of the trees, like the one called General Sherman:

The largest tree of them all

Are now fenced to try and help them last longer, so you can’t really get close to the tree and appreciate it.

I think I preferred the ones that I could touch and stand right next to and admire:

I couldn\'t have enough of those huge Sequoia trees

I think this photo summarize well my opinion about these Sequoias:

I can\'t even see where this Sequoia ends!

In another part of this amazing park we saw young Sequoias. I was quite disappointed to learn that there is not much chance I will be around to see them in their full glory (it takes about 3,000 years).

Oh well, maybe in my next life.