Day 4 of the VT NEK Fall foliage trip began the way every other day began. We had some thick morning fog. We again headed out around 7 AM, as once again we knew there weren't going to be any sunrise opportunities. This is sounding a bit like the movie "Groundhog Day", but we made the best with what we were handed from Mother Nature.

Our first stop of the day was along Darling Hill Road in East Burke. This road is a favorite of mine. Here is Burke Mountain, draped in fog.

Morning grazing along Darling Hill Road:

Along some of the backroads in the area:

The fog was finally beginning to lift but we had gray skies to deal with. Here's another dirt back road shot:

From here, we headed toward some back roads in East Burke and found some great barns to photograph. I once again kept the gray skies out of my shots if I possibly could.

We then headed back to the house to eat a quick lunch and made our way down to Stowe to meet up with a few other photographer friends of ours. It was so great to see them. We keep in touch year round but we always get together to go shooting for a day or two every Fall. We met them at 2 PM in Stowe and look what we saw..........

The blue sky! I kept this photo with 2/3's sky and 1/3 foreground to emphasize the sky.

The blue sky didn't last long. :-) Here's Grandview Farm in Stowe Hollow:

The last stop to photograph is this beautiful red barn sitting up in the highlands in Waterbury Center. I photographed here about 2-3 years ago around sunrise but figured out it would be best to shoot this in the late afternoon with the sun behind my back lighting up the barn and the mountain behind. We were "supposed" to have sunny skies this afternoon, but as you can see the forecast was a bit wrong. Sigh. I'll have to return here another time and hope the weather cooperates.

We then all went for a delicious dinner at The Reservoir Restaurant in Waterbury. It was a long day by the time we got back up to the NEK, but it was a fun day.