Immediately to the south of the Sandwich Range are some beautiful grassy intervales. Walking on the roads through these can be a pleasure, especially the morning after a substantial snowfall.
One morning in February after a snowfall, I visited two of these. First, I drove from Tamworth out to the tiny hamlet of Ferncroft, parked and walked around to get some pictures of snow covered trees next to the meandering Wonalancet Brook.
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