About six weeks ago, I walked along on old woods road, out of sight of any man or building, and on my return to the main road, was met by two police officers, one of whom carried an M-16. They knew my name and where I lived, and were looking for me. Apparently the owner […]
Category Archives: Life in the Catskills
A Walk In the Woods.
08-Jun-10Fullness.
21-May-10Spring has slid into summer here. Incredible.
Weird.
21-May-10Northeastern woods are pretty familiar and do not harbor a great number of the world’s bizarre creatures. And you feel that anything you experience you’ll have an explanation for. But occasionally I encounter a phenomenon I really do not understand. The past few nights – and occasionally during the day – the woods have been […]
Update from the Woods.
19-May-10Summer is just about here; the entire forest is dark brown and green, fertility promised and fertility delivered. The green awakens some kind of unknowable desire – I can walk through the woods and stop and stare at the leaves glowing green, utterly confounded as to what I am. Lots of writing and lots of […]
May.
05-May-10Summer weather arrived this weekend – ninety degree days – and with it, an astonishing ascension of complexity in the life around me. In April solitary individuals would break the stillness – “What is that bird? Where is he? Let me figure it out.” – but now the forest is never silent, all kinds of […]
“Don’t Worry… He’s More Afraid of You…”
29-Apr-10A few days of emotional chaos, perfectly reflected by the weather: cold, rain, sleet, snow – yesterday I woke up to find half-an-inch on the ground. The wind has been astonishing, shaking the house, raising great swells of sound up from the mountain. Clarity emerged, and I wrote a letter, which I resolved to carry […]
Neighbears…
14-Apr-10From the Phoenicia Times: A Sullivan County man shot and killed a large adult black bear that was menacing his daughter at her home Sunday, the state DEC has reported. The woman was inside with her four children when the bear attempted to break into a bedroom window of the home and swatted at their […]
Table Mountain.
09-Apr-10Still Plenty of Snow Up Here…
28-Mar-10Photo taken March 27th, 2010 on the flank of Table Mountain, not far from my cabin. While there is not much snow at the lower elevations, higher elevations of the Catskills, as you can see above, still have more than four feet of snow on the ground. The snow is solid, too – you can […]
Spring!
23-Mar-10While it’s certainly likely that we’ll have a bit more snow – and I see 20 degree temperatures in the forecast – the snow is now almost all gone. Yesterday it rained all day, and I watched it eagerly, thinking – “It’s rain! Water! From the sky! Not snow! What a miracle!” I would look […]