Category Archives: Life in the Catskills
Leafscapes.
01-Nov-09Monastic Life.
18-Oct-09When I arrived on top of Giant Ledge late this afternoon I found three people enjoying the view. Their conversation had some strange inner weight to it which I could not quite fathom, but I could tell that there was some real experience behind it, despite their obvious youth. It turns out all three were […]
Fall Photos.
15-Oct-09A photo album I put on Facebook, of fall in the Catskills. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=679762896&ref=ts#/album.php?aid=153937&id=739546612&ref=mf
Color and cold.
15-Oct-09Bitterly cold, and snowing today to boot. Six inches are expected – but we’ll see, the predictions are often inaccurate. The water in my buckets froze, in ways I found most beautiful and intriguing.
Beech and maple.
15-Oct-09Fall Sliding Into Winter.
13-Oct-09Click on the image to get a little sense of what it’s like up here right now. I started yesterday’s hike from the one place where you can see human settlement in the panorama, near the center of the photo. It’s raw and cold, though, and the beauty comes with some suffering: flurries yesterday as […]
Beauty.
10-Oct-09I climbed to my usual perch just south of Panther Mountain on October 8th, full of thoughts. This is part of what I saw.
The Mice Move In.
07-Oct-09It’s the season when mice decide their old homes are not quite as warm as they thought they would be, and look for new ones. After driving down to the store and back, I was dismayed to discern a strong burning smell coming from my truck’s engine; so I popped the hood. I found a […]
Scientists Say Nature Makes You Better
04-Oct-09For the Feast of St. Francis. It’s nice to get scientific corroboration of what the mystics already know. http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2009/10/nature_and_compassion.php
Bat Boy Guns Down Baby Sasquatch In Catskills!
28-Oct-09Bat Boy was stopped by Department of Environmental Conservation officers on Route 42 in the Catskills with the carcass of a baby sasquatch tied onto his roof – but then was waved by when officers saw his hunting partner: former Vice President Dick Cheney! Their 2009 Chevy Tahoe was later seen entering Area 52, a […]