I stepped outside at 3 a.m. last night – I stayed up a bit to finish reading a book – and found it was 26 degrees outside. Ice had started forming at 9 p.m. When I got up in the morning, there was a half-inch of ice on water surfaces. First frost of the season, […]
Tag Archives: 2012
Hard Frost.
13-Oct-12Mountain Floods and Mountain Life.
21-Sep-12I spent several days hiking the Devil’s Path this weekend, and when I got back I needed to attend to some internet matters and go to the supermarket. So I spent the greater part of a day in Liberty, where it was raining very impressively. I drove back not terribly worried. I didn’t realize that […]
Old-Time Stumpworming.
08-Sep-12I highly recommend watching the Bill Clinton Democratic Convention speech (video with transcript here) – it is one of the most impressively American speeches I have ever seen – thoroughly and completely in the American tradition of political oratory, folky, homespun, pragmatism and idealism seamlessly blended, wandering, an afternoon’s entertainment in a sleepy little town, […]