‘I’m spoiled’

Start of a game of water polo on Main Street, Saxtons River, after the July 4th parade in 2013. The game is played by volunteer firefighters with fire hoses, trying to spray the ball down the street to a goal. Looking west at the Saxtons River Historical Society (a former Congregational church).

“I’m spoiled by the lack of traffic, the beauty all around me, the night sky, the wildlife, and having more space and time to think and be creative.’’

— Julie Moir Messervy, Saxtons River, Vt.-based landscape architect, in Vermont Life magazine. Saxtons River is a village in the town of Rockingham.