Unlike its over-developed neighbours to the south, east and west, Vermont remains very much a state of nature. Tourists come from around the world in pursuit of snow, trout streams, autumn colours, deer, moose, mountains and forest. David Middleton captures this natural world from familiar haunts like the top of Mount Killington to the seldom seen wilds of the fabled Northeast Kingdom. Black bears, bobcats, fishers, redpolls, snow geese and snapping turtles all populate the landscape - be it a summer stand of trees draped in verdant green or the flaming red foliage of a hillside in autumn - a world where the forest floor is carpeted with wild trillium and elegant lady"s slippers. Bringing stunningly beautiful landscape to your living room, from panoramic overviews to the finest details of an owl"s feathers, this year-long journal of words and photographs takes the reader through this natural world as the colour of life bursts forth in the spring and goes to rest with the last display of spectacular autumn foliage.