Have already made one post today, but wanted to load these photo's up that I took in Vermont and post them before I forgot about them.

Best of Vermont.

3 days after leaving Colorado and I'm already in Vermont. Seemed like a good idea to go tour the original Ben & Jerry's ice cream factory and then have a 'Cherry Garcia' cone out on their patio.

Visited the waterfront area in Burlington Vermont one afternoon. This is the north entrance light to the harbor on Lake Champlain.

  

Spent one day visiting the Shelburne Museum over in the town of Shelburne. Most of it is comprised of old building they have saved and relocated to the museum grounds, as well as lots of old stuff to go in them. This is the original Colchester Reef Light House that they moved when it was going to be torn down in order to build a new house.

Another view.

  

The original 3rd order Fresnel lens that was in the light house. The 'order' refers to size of the light from 1 to 10. #1 being the smallest light and #10 being more than 6 feet tall. I just think this one is beautiful.

       

The original train station for the town of Shelburne.

This is the last steamship to ply Lake Champlain. The 'Ticondaroga' was powered by a steam driven 'walking beam' engine. The triangular thing on top is the actual walking beam. Steam was fed into a single large cylinder which produced an up and down motion that was then turned into a circular motion by an excentric crank that was part of the walking beam. This then drove a pair of side paddle wheels. They transported the boat nearly two miles from Lake Champlain on special railroad tracks they laid during the winter as the ground had to be frozen in order for it to support the great weight of the boat.

An interior view of the 'Grand Salon' on the 2nd deck. Lovely woodwork and other appointments. The sky light structure above the staircase was called the 'turtle back' because of its shape.

A view down one of the passageways.

This covered wooden bridge use to be the main entrance to the museum, it being wide enough to have two separate lanes of traffic. But times have changed, vehicles are now much bigger and heavier so they created a new entrance and this just went back to being a pleasant spot to be.