Twin Rivers

 

 

Yesterday's pulse of high water has come and gone.  After morning flurries, the mid-afternoon brought clearing skies.  A new freezing cycle will begin this week, with temperatures predicted in the single digits at night. 

 

We drove today down the Connecticut River valley, crossing a bridge over the Black River along the way.  Where the Great River Rises, the atlas of the upper Connecticut River system, twins the Black and Ottauquechee as one watershed unit.  Almost the same length, about 40 miles, they roughly parallel each other in their respective courses from Plymouth and Killington to the greater river. 

 

As the Ottauquechee made Woodstock, so the Black made Springfield.

 

 

 

The Black River and Springfield, Vermont around 1910