A Few of My Favorite Things

Left is The von Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, VT, photographer unknown.


The hills are alive with "The Sound of Muuuuusic". I still love the sound track and the movie. Did you know that Maria von Trapp is actually in a scene, at the convent, in the movie? Yes, she is an extra and walks across the screen behind the movie stars. This movie brings out the little kid in me. Oh wait a minute I'm always like a little kid. Anyway, I was just recalling singing the song, Sixteen Going on Seventeen, dancing and jumping from huge rock to huge rock like, Angela Cartwright did in the movie in the gazebo scene; she jumped from bench seat to bench seat while she sang and danced in circles. It was behind my house in the woods, and I sang at the top of my lungs but I was actually only about six years old and could almost suspend my belief to where I was in the movie. Do Re Me was the first song I ever played on the piano, oh how proud I was.

One of the big highlights in life was going to the von Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont on a ski trip, which is where the actual von Trapp family moved to when they left Austria. It's a 2,400-acre resort has breath taking "sweeping mountain views" not unlike Austria because Vermont is beautiful also and one of my favorite states. I'd share some shots I took there but they are actual film photos and I don't know where they are at the moment and would have to scan them in. The one here is from a web page, they didn’t site any photographer.