http://vbrisket.com/2016/02/ Going around town speaking with people I’ve encountered a fair amount of resistance to my claim that the local deer population is too high, and I’d like to go into this issue a little deeper. First of all, I’m aware of the history: many of the flatter areas in our hills were pastureland not long […]
Category Archives: Life in the Catskills
On Local Deer Populations.
03-Nov-13Response to the Seriously Concerned.
02-Nov-13buy Lyrica australia While going around door-to-door yesterday evening an older gentleman said to me, “You’re John Kuhner? I’m voting for you for sure.” He went on to explain that “some woman I never saw before” was at the Town Dump passing out leaflets “saying you were a communist or something like that and when I saw all […]
Persimmons.
30-Oct-13I’ve been eating a couple of persimmons a day – another of the odd pleasures of a Catskill autumn. The American persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) is native only about as far north as Staten Island – where they are relatively common, though I’m not sure they occur anywhere else in New York City. But they are […]
Small-Town Life.
29-Oct-13I was dropping off campaign letters at the post office when I was told by the lady at the counter, “Just hold on a second, I’ll get your mail” – this from someone I’ve never been formally introduced to, though she sure got the right person’s mail out. When she saw I had campaign materials […]
Poster.
29-Oct-13Campaign Fun.
26-Oct-13A friend has been making up fun campaign posters using old pictures. This from my teaching days: More on native plants in the Catskills and in the town of Denning here.
Pawpaw Taste Test.
24-Oct-13At the nursery we’ve been overwhelmed with abundance this year – it’s been such an excellent year for fruit. We had a daylong taste-test of our blueberries (Patriot won) and have had apples, peaches, pears, and grapes for months on end. Now we have pawpaws as well. I’ve written about pawpaws before, but in the […]
The Effect of Nature on the Mind.
30-Oct-13Andrew Sullivan quotes a University Bookman piece which quotes a lecture by Santayana on the effect that nature as – or can have, if we let it in – on the American mind. When you are in nature: Everywhere is beauty and nowhere permanence, everywhere an incipient harmony, nowhere an intention, nor a responsibility, nor […]