Weather always innovating

“There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger’s admiration — and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on people to see how they will go. But it gets through more business in spring than in any other season. In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of twenty-four hours.”’

— Mark Twain (1835-1910). The famed writer lived for many years in Connecticut. He once said his favorite place was Dublin, N.H., where late in life he summered.

—Photo by David McCandless

“June in New England is like a lover’s dream made tangible.’

— Gladys Taber (1899-1908), writer and resident of rural Connecticut and Cape Cod.