When I walked into court Monday night, I heard the owner of the property at the end of Schumway Road, Todd Brown, who was apparently the main force behind this trespassing prosecution, saying to the police officer/prosecutor, “And if he took any photos back there, those images belong to Catskill Holdings LLC. I want that […]
Category Archives: Life in the Catskills
The Trial.
18-Aug-10Bear Gardening.
11-Aug-10We were landscaping this week in Silver Hollow – a beautiful part of the Catskills, one I’ve known for awhile. Today as I was finishing up – my colleague had just pulled out – I heard some weird chattering in the woods, almost like laughter, and the breaking of a large branch, which then came […]
Summer Afternoon Baroque Clouds.
10-Aug-10Cloisters.
08-Aug-10I spent Saturday at the Cloisters, and achieved one of my goals of measuring the cloistered gardens there. I was informed by the guard that the reconstructed gardens do not represent the original dimensions, but that was really no concern to me: what impressed me is that each one of the cloisters works as a […]
On Native Plant Gardening.
07-Aug-10Not long ago, when advising some friends who were about to start a garden, I told them to plant a state-of-the-art garden, meaning not a technologically complex one, but rather one in accord with the best knowledge we have of what constitutes excellence in a home garden. This can be expressed on the smallest levels […]
Walking in the Woods, Once Again.
06-Jul-10Last night – what will probably be one of the hottest nights of the year – I was sitting in my chair reading The Pilgrim’s Progress barely dressed and feverish, when I saw a flashlight dancing on my lawn. I got up, quite curious – it was after nine p.m., I live far from the […]
Good for the Soul.
02-Jul-10My first month at Catskill Native Nursery is done now. What wonderful work – yesterday I was planting dogwoods in Woodstock. The week before I was ripping up barberry in Eldred. These good deeds will not be unremembered in the economy of things.
In Bloom.
25-Jun-10Rhododendron Maximum, in the Catskills.
Catskill Native Nursery.
16-Jun-10Yesterday was my first day of paid physical labor ever, I think. I took a job with Catskill Native Nursery. “Gardening For a Better Environment.” Landscape restoration, native plant propagation, gardening within nature’s parameters. And for me, using my body and working outdoors. A good beginning. Someone recently asked me if I’d ever work for […]
Not Guilty.
17-Aug-10Found not guilty last night in the “walk in the woods” case. My lawyer friends all swore to me that such a case would never be prosecuted, but prosecuted it was (twice no less!), though the judge seemed nonplussed to be hearing so frivolous a case. In the end, the trial was interesting – and […]