We had a really wonderful, athletic, windy March hike today. Joe Herrick’s Gulf is a huge and deep “ravine” – you really wouldn’t want to fall off the edge of it! We skirted around areas where the worst tornado damage happened last Saturday and where huge oaks, birches, hornbeams, maples, and beeches have been uprooted. I didn’t have the heart to take photos of them – too sad. Sometimes we just had to go under fallen trees though. Down in town, houses are still waiting for insurance adjusters etc, but where roofs and parts of houses were destroyed blue tarps are a now common sight. Financial and human response to the tornado has been positively incredible. The hike ended in Taylor’s field from where our parade of cars drove to Gould’s Sugar House in Shelburne Falls for blueberry pancakes and freshly made (still hot) maple syrup and for 25cents a scrumptious little Maple ice cream cone.Yum! Yum! It’s almost time for springing ahead with the clocks! Penny 
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