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March 14, 2006

 

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Craftsbury Common, Craftsbury, Vermont, 1997

Photograph by Michael S. Yamashita

"Life is piebald in New England, like the fields in the spring and fall—part warm earth and part ice and snow."

—From "Vermont: Suite of Seasons," September 1998, National Geographic magazine

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Vermont: Suite of Seasons," September 1998, National Geographic magazine)

 

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