CANCELLED DUE TO FORECASTED THUNDERSTORMS:
Sadly, as a result of the anticipated thunder and lightning storms, the tents cannot be occupied, and therefore, the 2025 Festival has been CANCELLED for the first time ever. Thanks to all for their support, enthusiasm, and planned participation!

Finally, the light is that perfect winter mid-snowfall light that’s bright and diffuse and also gray at the same time, with the snowflakes coming down!

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Also, in this photo you can see the small hemlock trees (which are taller than me) that have been planted in between to replace the ones lost in this magnificent double allée of trees for across left and right.

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Their spread is both driven by climate change and may also accelerate it (yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/08/inva...)

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This is just as many people have seen happen throughout New England and the Northeast, including on Hemlock Hill in the Arnold Arboretum (arboretum.harvard.edu/plants/hemlo...).

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The invasive hemlock woody adelgid (www.berkshireeagle.com/news/local/i...) is attacking them.

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Then these particular trees in Belmont, MA are part of the Pine Allée at the top of Belmont Hill: they have both survived for almost 120 years — and are also dying because of climate change (belmontonian.com/belmont/larg...).

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Next, I almost didn’t take this photo because I wasn’t sure that I wanted the people in it — but they make the photograph because they provide scale for the mighty Hemlock trees towering literally 100 feet above them.

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