Little House in the Big Woods

Dorset, Vermont October 2016

"The great, dark trees of the Big Woods stood all around the house, and beyond them were other trees and beyond them were more trees. As far as a man could go to the north in a day, or a week, or a whole month, there was nothing but woods.  There were no houses. There were no roads. There were no people. There were only trees and the wild animals who had their homes among the big woods"

Innisfree  Fall 2016

"Walnuts and Hickory nuts were dropping to the ground in the Big Woods, and squirrels were scampering busily everywhere, gathering their winter's store of nuts and hiding them away in hollow trees."

Innisfree Fall 2016

"Wolves lived in the Big Woods, and bears, and huge wild cats.  Muskrats and mink and otter lived by the streams.  Foxes had dens in the hills and deer roamed everywhere."

Millbrook, New York Fall 2016

"Autumn was great fun. There were so much work to do, so many good things to eat, so many new things to see."

Text by Laura Ingalls Wilder from Little House in the Big Woods. Photos by Tricia Heaton