The river looks like this for much of its length, although the dark slashes around the bend show swifter, shallower water unfrozen along the left bank. Yesterday I drove the 4 miles from the Taftsville Bridge into town along River Road, a dirt track hugging the left bank, with no guard rails. It offers an up close view of the Ottauquechee. No open water flowed the entire way.
Taken yesterday, this is the hydroelectric dam just upstream of the Taftsville covered bridge, complete with overhead power lines. You can make out the grade of River Road on the far bank, emerging from the woods to parallel the river.
Back at the Middle Bridge in the late afternoon today, I saw a photographer pointing her lens upriver. So did I.
Just above the bridge
River ribbons shone and flowed
With the waning sun.
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