I flew to Burlington, drove northeast to Enosburg Falls, walked onto the town greeen past the rapture bookseller whose VT license reads "SAVED", past the att&t kiosk, the Yankee and Red Sox cap vendor, the booth selling Confederate & POW/MIA flags, past the sausage and taco sellers. I did buy 4 raffle tickets for Maple Mable, a Holstein Heifer, 4 raffle tickets for Jake the Steak, a fancy steer, and 3 tickets for the Horse Raffle. I checked off "animal" on each ticket instead of the cash prize. I asked where the animals were. Where the yogurt and cheese displays might be. Susanne and Phillip Parent were taking care of cows and a baby bull in a barn behind the Masonic Temple (pancake breakfast this morning), Ben and Jerry's apparently gave away some ice cream yesterday and cups of milk were offered in another place.

Enosburg Falls is a lovely place. It would be a lovely town to host a "DAIRY" festival, too, if they decided to have one here. In place of their Diary Festival. Maybe I'm just too literal. Like, I looked up "dairy" - you can too. Maybe "dairy" now means, well, old time sepia photographs in period costume, wolf and horse fleece blankets. Could be. I'm an optimist. Could be.

Ben & Kelly, Apple & Otto @ the flying disc on Main St make a wonderful coffee, good music, good people.