Driving home from Manhattan, we quickly passed through a slice of the Lower Hudson watershed, sliding through an EZPass point while heading northeast through the Bronx watershed, before crossing into the Connecticut Coastal river system, the boundary being the line between the states of New York and Connecticut. This federally-designated local coastal watershed consists of smaller streams all heading to Long Island Sound, with names like Mianus, Rippowan and Poquonock, echoes of the Quinnipiac peoples whose name graces a watershed just a bit further along on our route back to Vermont. We crossed the Housatonic River at Bridgeport, with its own eponymous watershed, and reached the Quinnipiac at New Haven, following its course north to Meriden, where we crossed a slight rise and descended into the Lower Connecticut River watershed region. This section of river territory stretches from the Sound up to Springfield, Massachusetts, where I woke from my nap as we entered the Middle Connecticut watershed around Hadley.
Crossing into Vermont, the designation changed to Upper Connecticut. We followed the great stream's western side, until at Windsor we drove northwest alongside Lull's Brook up through Hartland, then crossed into our home system, where the Ottauquechee River had prepared a path nearly to our door.
Being away for a week meant we missed the snow storm that covered the banks of the river, whose remaining ice traced a graceful arc this morning under the grey skies, whose reflection in the river coordinates with the bordering ice.
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