On this next to last day of my year of blogging on the river, I began earlier than usual.  This picture I took about 6:40 a.m.

Upriver, the scene was like this:

A few minutes later, I took one more, from a a different spot on the bridge, 

looking downstream again.

I spent the afternoon, driving the length of the Ottauquchee, from its Killington headwaters to the Connecticut River.  More on this later.