Note from Our Founders: Week of Feb. 17, 2025
Seasonality is fundamental to our experience as Vermonters. We move through the year in rhythm with the cyclical changes in our landscape, sometimes in happy harmony, and sometimes begrudgingly. The winter chapter can often feel long and heavy as we trudge for months through a monochromatic landscape and hunch our shoulders against the capricious cold.
But that bluebird day in February arrives and we shovel our way out to embrace the joys this season can bestow. Frozen lakes are dotted with fishing shanties, sleds zip across blanketed fields, skis swish down wooded trails, and tunnels are excavated through mountainous snow banks-turned snow castles. However we choose to spend these days, the joy feels hard-earned and deeply fulfilling.
As the snow piles up this winter, underneath the layers of salt on our cars, blankets on our beds, and fatigue on our shoulders, we are grateful that we HAVE snow to shovel and play in this year, rather than the mud and rain of recent winters past. And we acknowledge that, no matter what the season throws at us, in this part of the world, the weather unites us. It is a favorite and ubiquitous topic of conversation because it declares our shared experience: WEATHER is our universal love language.