Esik I am aware that there are timber rattlesnakes in the area – my high-school girlfriend managed to grab one while climbing in the Catskills, thinking it was a root, and feeling its warm soft flesh threw it away from her before getting a bite. I’ve done a few landscaping jobs in the Shawangunks where I […]
Category Archives: Life in the Catskills
Timber Rattler Sighting.
02-Sep-12Late Summer Mountains.
29-Aug-12Magic Mushrooms.
15-Aug-12buy ivermectin europe It was deep in a ravine, getting towards evening, and a cloudy day anyway, so it was hard to get this shot, but it actually captures the otherworldly feel of seeing these mushrooms growing on a little island at the headwaters of a little creek on Red Hill. They were just amazingly red. They looked […]
Of Love and Mountain Mint.
15-Aug-12I wrote a little piece for the Denning Denizen, on another plant, mountain mint.
Catskill Troubadours.
14-Aug-12I watched this guy patiently gnawing his way through an Agastache leaf, hanging upside down. The crickets seem to love being in my garden – there are all sorts of plants they can be found on. They nibble the plants a bit, but it doesn’t seem to have a negative effect on the garden as […]
Fullness.
14-Aug-12The mid-August garden. The tomatoes are eight feet tall and the late-summer bloomers are starting in earnest now.
Awesome Moth.
10-Aug-12I caught sight of this guy on my Agastache, and now that I have a new camera I was – for the first time in four years up here – able to get some decent images of an insect. The cross-like pattern on the back of this moth means that it’s easy to find on […]
Purge.
10-Aug-12Cleaning things out, and accepting that some seeds I planted last fall will not sprout. “Back into the mix.”
Three Days.
07-Aug-12And no bear visits.
E-Waste.
07-Aug-12An informed piece on e-waste in the Hudson Valley from one of the few people who knows a lot about it, Sarah Womer.