http://kirstincronn-mills.com/?tag=patience I climbed Red Hill with a friend after he got off work yesterday. We zipped up the mountain in record time – it’s a short hike and it was cold and the sunset was not going to wait for us – and were rewarded with a good, leisurely sunset. He had a backpack full of […]
Category Archives: Life in the Catskills
Red Hill Sunset.
12-Oct-12At My Door.
12-Oct-12The little clearing in front of my cabin has been an animal crossroads the past few weeks. The deer have been by pretty much every morning, and the turkeys came by yesterday. They are common enough, but I manage to get excited every time I see them. You go silent with respect for their presence. […]
First Snow.
12-Oct-12Flurries this afternoon. In general, a cold, windy, raw day. Hard to be outside.
Crystal Days.
11-Oct-12The weather cleared last night, and the air has turned to crystal. The stars early this morning were astonishing. And I have my stove going now. It amazes me how every new season makes me feel that this is the season – that I wasn’t really at the cabin, that I didn’t really know pleasure, […]
The Feast of St. Francis of Assisi.
04-Oct-12I think of Saint Francis whenever I encounter the least of the little creatures around me. Today I found two spiders in my bathtub, who could not climb the slick sides of the tub. Recently someone put up a picture on Facebook of a spider. Half the comments were “gross” and the other half were […]
The World’s Best Brown-Eyed Susan.
04-Oct-12She grew in my garden this year. That’s one plant, bought from Catskill Native Nursery a few years ago. For years it wouldn’t bloom – the deer ate all the buds – but then I moved it into the cloister garden. Now it’s a good four or five feet in diameter and absolutely gorgeous. It’s […]
Rain, rain, rain.
04-Oct-12It did nothing but rain and be gray here, for a week. I’m done with it. Everything is damp. I have a canvas bookbag in my cabin that started growing mold. It never even got wet, it’s just the air. The sheets feel damp when you get into them. I check my face in the […]
Fall Color.
01-Oct-12It’s a slightly early fall here. I drove yesterday from the Garlic Festival in Saugerties home via Tannersville and West Kill. While in Saugerties the color had barely begun and in Palenville there was just a hint, on the mountain top it is peak right now. Haines Falls, Tannersville, Hunter, and West Kill are all […]
Catskill Ruins Porn.
28-Sep-12I’ve written before about the Detroit Safari, and the taking of pictures in ruined Detroit places; now the Catskills gets the same treatment.
Carrots.
26-Sep-12I’ve heard people say that they have trouble getting full-sized carrots, but I’ll say I’ve never had that problem. I grow mine in raised beds, and I make every effort not to step in the beds and compact the soil. My soil is high in nitrogen, which may help. The variety grown may make a […]