http://stephanepereira.com/wp-includes/blocks/spacer/ From Kerouac’s Richmond Hill journals (the area I grew up in Queens): MONDAY AUG. 23 – Told my mother today she ought to go live down South with the family instead of spending all her time slaving in shoe factories in order to earn just enough money to spend on the system of expenses that […]
Category Archives: Life in the Catskills
Jack Kerouac, Man Who Got It.
07-Aug-12Promised Land Salt Lick.
05-Aug-12http://smragan.com/tag/lifehacks/ It took me a few days to notice this, but on the floor by my wood stove I found something out of place: a small cube of Dead Sea salt. I had it in a corner of the cabin by some drying witch-hazel leaves. It was probably a third of its original size; two-thirds of […]
I went to hear Rick Darke speak at the Onteora Club in Tannersville on Friday. I was extremely impressed. His talk was about Arts and Crafts gardens, but it was clear that for him it was a vehicle for a spiritual vision. It was this vision that interested me most, although I don’t know if […]
The Onteora Club.
05-Aug-12God Bless Friends.
05-Aug-12I got home from work yesterday, delayed a bit by helping a friend move some furniture with my truck, and after checking for bears I put on my generator and started to make dinner. I pressed play on my CD player, and West End Girls by the Pet Shop Boys comes on, the preferred music […]
Where the Bad Bears Go.
05-Aug-12After waking up with a bear on top of my truck, I had forty-eight hours without a bear visit. On Saturday, however, he showed up at my back door at six in the morning. I had somewhat oafishly booby-trapped the back door, putting a cooler full of water in the doorway leading into the extension, […]
Bear Trashes the Cabin.
02-Aug-12I returned home in the late afternoon yesterday, feeling a bit tired from a pair of days in the city. The cabin looked fine, but as I came up to the front door I paused – there was a beer can by the front door. I had guests last weekend, and we drank more than […]
Agastache.
26-Jul-12A piece on one of my favorite plants for the Denning Denizen.
Terror.
25-Jul-12A few nights ago I slept little, as a thunderstorm rolled through the area and was sending down bolts all over the mountaintop. Two bolts whacked trees just on the other side of the field, crackling through the air most impressively. I was convinced of course that my cabin would be next. As I’ve said […]
Return of the Monarchs.
23-Jul-12Another monarch butterfly caterpillar on my Asclepias this year. It seems to have pretty thoroughly defoliated the plants, however, and I’m inspired to plant more of these butterfly weeds. The ones I have I raised from seed, and that year I had so many come up from seed I didn’t know what to do with […]