The view yesterday.
About two weeks ago, excavators tore into the hill behind the Episcopal church about 100 yards south of the river. In the process of making space for a retaining wall, a cross section of the subsoil briefly was revealed. We saw a horizontal swath of grey earth sandwiched by brown soil above and below. One observer said this was clay laid down by the glacier 10,000 years ago. I wonder if it was a remnant of post-glacial Lake Hitchcock, which for centuries filled the Connecticut Valley and had an arm extending up what is now the Ottauquechee Valley. Mounts Tom and Peg once looked down upon the still waters of a lake.
The view today.
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