Thirty Five

Crossroads  noun.
A road that intersects another road.

Around here there are some crossroads without a stop sign or much more than a road sign planted in an unusual place.  Its not like there's much traffic to contend with or people who don't know where they're already heading.

Tomorrow's randomly generated word is: fetch

Thirty Four

Determined adjective.

1. Marked by or showing determination; resolute.
2. Decided or resolved.

This cactus plant is the most determined living thing I've ever encountered.  Why?  Because two years ago my mother sent it to me as a gift.  UPS dropped it off at our doorstep while my husband and I were away for two days.  It spent two days outside in subzero temperatures.  My mother in law rescued it and gave it to us when we returned.  I nursed it for days (and mind you have I no green thumb) as I watched pieces of the poor plant die off and crumble.  Weeks later it seemed to stop dying.  With just a few stubs left I noticed it was growing!  Now, two years later, it has flowered for the first time.  Now that's what I call determined.

Tomorrow's randomly generated word is: crossroad

Thirty Three

Cozy  adjective.

1. Snug, comfortable, and warm.
2. Marked by friendly intimacy

I can't think of any better word to describe this photo other than "cozy".

This is an HDR photo of my cat laying in our windowsill as it snows.  

Why can't life for people be this simple?

Tomorrow's randomly generated word is: determined

Thirty Two

 Jelly noun.
 A soft, semisolid food substance with a resilient consistency, made by the setting of a liquid containing pectin or gelatin or by the addition of gelatin to a liquid, especially such a substance made of fruit juice containing pectin boiled with sugar.

While I am a fan of jelly doughnuts my favorite are Boston Creams. 
And yes, I did go and buy a doughnut just for this. 

Tomorrow's randomly generated word is: cozy

Thirty One

Station noun.

1. 1. A place or position where a person or thing stands or is assigned to stand; a post
   2. An area where a person is assigned to work.
2. The place, building, or establishment from which a service is provided or operations are directed
3. A stopping place along a route, especially a stop for refueling or for taking on passengers

This is the old train station in Island Pond with the sun reflecting off it near the end of the day.  It used to be a grand station with eight or nine (according to older people in town) sets of tracks that served dozens of freight and passenger trains a day going all the way from Montreal to Portland, ME.  Now there are two sets of tracks and no passengers.  The train still  travels through a couple times a day and stops to switch conductors (the Candian conductor and American Conductor... you can only operate a train in your respective country), but the station is now partly a bank, partly the historical society's office, and also holds a town office for the UTGs (Unified Towns and Gores - about half a dozen 'towns' that have 20 people or less in them that share joint local government).  You know... I'd love to see what this station was like 100 years ago. 

Tomorrow's randomly generated word is: jelly

Thirty

Round adjective

1. 1. Being such that every part of the surface or the circumference is equidistant from the center: a round ball.
   2. Moving in or forming a circle.
   3. Shaped like a cylinder; cylindrical.
   4. Rather rounded in shape: the child's round face.
   5. Full in physique; plump: a round figure.

There are quite a few round barns in Vermont.  This one always seems to have cows in front of it.  There is another one, freshly painted, farther north that I want to photograph.  The only problem is there's not an easy way to reach it without walking right through their front yard! 

Tomorrow's randomly generated word is: station

Twenty Nine

Vegetable noun.

1. 1. A plant cultivated for an edible part, such as the root of the beet, the leaf of spinach, or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower.
   2. The edible part of such a plant.
   3. A member of the vegetable kingdom; a plant.

Just some plain old cucumber slices.  

I am honestly not much of a vegetable person, especially lately.

Tomorrow's randomly generated word is: round