Tag Archives: Catskills
Late Summer Mountains.
29-Aug-12Native Plant Gardening in the Catskills.
21-Jul-12Gunnaur A piece I wrote for The Denning Denizen.
Back in the Woods.
20-Jun-12http://cathedral-lonavala.org/ritika-kumar/ I’ve spent my first complete week up here on Wildcat Mountain, and I can’t express how amazed I am with the place: a week here is a thousand years with the Lord. Most of the small, good things that constitute life in the Catskills have happened in some form for me in the past few […]
Back Home.
19-Jul-11I left the Rusticatio Virginiana yesterday afternoon, after several days discussing the future and mission of SALVI, an organization dedicated to living Latin; and after dinner on the road and a long conversation with a friend, I found myself just outside of Liberty, New York, around 1 a.m. My eyes were closing involuntarily, and I […]
Catskill Roadkill Mink.
23-Apr-11Saw this little mink along the road in the Bone Hollow area of the Rondout Valley. We thought it might be a baby beaver – this was right next to a lake with a beaver lodge – and got out to take a look. It was a mink. My coworker was surprised they were around […]
I started talking to the guy who runs the town dump about Christmas tree selling in New York City – mostly the province of Quebecois – and he said, “You should take a look on my website. I wrote a couple of pieces about Christmas tree selling in New York City – its origins and […]
Fall Peaks.
05-Oct-10Hiked in the pouring rain Monday, and was amply rewarded in the spells when the rain paused.
Fall Arrives.
01-Oct-10Peak color this weekend in the Central Catskills. Next weekend at the lower elevations, I think. Slightly earlier this year than last year, as it seems.
Hiking.
12-Sep-10“Would that I had never been to Wittenberg, never read book.” – Marlowe Back from a three-day hike, hitting Giant Ledge, Panther Mountain, Wittenberg, Cornell Mountain, and Slide Mountain. The scenery was spectacular. The view from Wittenberg is the best I have seen in the Catskills – not only remarkable distance but a remarkable foreground. […]
May.
05-May-10Summer weather arrived this weekend – ninety degree days – and with it, an astonishing ascension of complexity in the life around me. In April solitary individuals would break the stillness – “What is that bird? Where is he? Let me figure it out.” – but now the forest is never silent, all kinds of […]