Old timber ...

To ensure a white Christmas, we have headed up to Vermont for a few days skiing. We drove through the historic village of Deerfield in Massachusetts that has houses from as early as 1730. Eerily quiet and deserted on Christmas Day, which made it look all the more authentic. Even the man who ran out of his house to question why I was taking photographs gave it an unsettling feeling that we had wandered too far off the highway into deliverance country.