tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73989423934591199852024-03-13T13:44:33.553-04:00waterlilyAn admirer of Henry David Thoreau goes sauntering, with camera in hand, in upstate New York.suephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413896904031019699noreply@blogger.comBlogger225125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398942393459119985.post-73881965490159726332015-07-13T21:50:00.001-04:002015-07-13T22:06:57.125-04:00Thoreau’s Birthday <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I go to observe the lilies. … <br />
The pontederia is in its prime, <br /> alive with butterflies, <br /> yellow and others. <br />
I see its tall blue spike reflected <br /> beneath the edges of the pads on each side,
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pointing down to a heaven beneath <br /> as well as above.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">HDT <i>Journal</i>, July 17, 1854</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wake to a clear sky on this warm summer morning. <br />
My boat is already loaded on the car for a trip to the river. <br />
It promises to be perfect weather for observing the birthday of a certain Mr.
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Thoreau spent many happy hours on the rivers that run <br />right through his own
little town, <br />and I decide that I would be happy doing the same.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the bay, Floating Bladderwort<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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devil,<br />though they may distinguish both a good and a bad; <br />but they regard only
that one which they fear and worship the devil only. <br />We too are savages in
this, <br />doing precisely the same thing. <br />This occurred to me yesterday as I sat in
the woods <br />admiring the beauty of the blue butterfly.</span></span></span></div>
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interested in birds and insects, <br />for example, <br />as they are ornamental to the
earth and cheering to man, <br />but we spare the lives of the former <br />only on
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God and enjoy him forever, <br />which of course is applicable mainly to God <br />as seen
in his works. <br />Yet the only account of its beautiful insects, </span></span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">–</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;">butterflies,
etc. – <br />which God has made and set before us <br />which the State ever thinks of
spending any money on <br />is the account of those which are injurious to vegetation!
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other beautiful insects which people the air, <br />then go into the libraries <br />and
see what kind of prayer and glorification of God <br />is there recorded. <br />Massachusetts
has published her report on <br />“Insects Injurious to Vegetation,” <br />and our neighbor
<br />the “Noxious Insects of New York.” <br />We have attended to the evil <br />and said
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, <br />dreamt I was a butterfly,<br />fluttering hither and thither, <br />to all intents and purposes a butterfly...<br />Suddenly, I awoke, <br />and there I lay, myself again. <br />Now I do not know whether <br />I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, <br />or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.</span><br />
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seen by moonlight from these Cliffs, <br />
encased in snowy armor two feet thick, … <br />
Who can believe that this is the habitable globe?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To be truthful, we have not had the heavy snows that have
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Think of a man’s swinging dumb-bells for his health, <br />
when those springs are bubbling up <br />in far off pastures unsought by him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> One morning in
January, while deep in the clutches of that nasty cold virus, I awoke suddenly
from a vivid dream as I heard a single word spoken: “<i>Orenda</i>.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I knew from my re-enacting days, when I did lots and lots of
reading and research on the Native people of New York, that the word was
vaguely Iroquoian. I went online and
Googled the word. <br />According to one
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">With regard to spiritual beliefs, the Iroquois believed that
all living things were filled with an essence called orenda. <br />Dreams were the
main form of contact between orenda and human beings. Individuals would fast
and pray to obtain a vision. <br />Dreams expressed the desires of the most inner
realm of the soul. <br />The fulfillment of a dream was absolutely essential. … <br />In
mid-winter, the Iroquois would hold a dream festival. <br />During this time, old
fires would be put out and new fires would be lighted.</span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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in the winter air again. It’s a cold and windy day in late January, when Jackie
suggests a new place to walk, one that is a little sheltered, and ideal for
this sort of weather. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fortunate are we to live near Saratoga Springs, New York --
fabled home of an assortment of mineral springs. Native peoples cherished this area and
protected its springs, centuries before the European settlers arrived. Since then many health-seekers have come to
drink from the springs or even bathe in the waters. Most of the Bath Resorts
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mineral taste !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jackie suggested a drive up to the Hudson River Ice Meadows, where we could
observe yet another form of ice, making short forays from the warmth of the
car. That suited me fine !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> frazil ice</span></b>, and then you have only days in which to see it in best form, before the next snowfall covers it over. (here’s <a href="http://saratogawoodswaters.blogspot.com/2013/01/cold-weather-friends.html" target="_blank">a link</a> to Jackie’s explanation of the unique nature of this
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some who have lain flat on the ice for a long time, </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> looking down through the illusive medium, </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> perchance with watery eyes into the bargain, </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> and driven to hasty conclusion </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> by the fear of catching cold in their breasts, </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> have seen vast holes </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">"into which a load of hay might be drived," </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> if there were anybody to drive it, </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> the undoubted source of the Styx </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> and entrance to the Infernal Regions from these parts. </span><br /> HDT <i>Walden,</i> The Pond in Winter</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The day after playing on the lake ice for hours,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I started feeling as if I was catching a cold. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> I stayed home that Monday, thinking that bed-rest would avert the worst of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nope ! By that Friday, I felt even worse, and stayed home again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have caught the “Coughing-Virus” that seems to be going around. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> This is unlike any other cold I’ve ever had, you just cough and cough till your eyes bug out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It’s a funny dry cough that leaves me breathless. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> This cold is lasting a long time, and only time can cure it, since it’s a virus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> It’s hard to be patient, though. <br />After several weeks of moping around, and trying all the home-remedies I can think of, I finally feel like venturing outdoors again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How terrible it must have been for Thoreau, <br />who contracted tuberculosis early in life.<br />He valiantly struggled with “the trouble in my chest” <br />throughout his life. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Having lost several family members and friends to this deadly affliction, </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">he knew how it would end. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> In the 1840s, there was no cure, and the disease was fittingly referred to as <u><i><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/trailer/plague/" target="_blank">Consumption</a></i>.</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He was frequently ill for weeks at a time. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> (Working in his family’s business -- grinding <i>finely-powdered graphite</i> – must not have helped !) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In between bouts of what he called “bronchitis,”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> he spent as much time as possible outdoors, in all seasons. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Friends marveled at his strength and endurance. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> He considered Nature the finest physician. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am confined to the house by bronchitis …. <br /> As soon as I find my chest is not of tempered steel, <br /> and heart of adamant, <br /> I bid good-bye to these <br />and look out a new nature.</span><br /> HDT, <i>Journal,</i> February 14, 1841</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Two days later, having a weekend day available, <br />I returned to Moreau Lake and met Jackie
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was a cloudy, still morning, damply cold, but we were
bundled up tightly, prepared to stay out for a few hours. <br />The Warming Hut would
be our final stop. <br />We parked our cars in
the main lot, and walked down the hill – <br />and lo and behold --the Big Lake had finally frozen
over solid !<br /><br />
Zen Brook would have to wait. <br />Who can resist being able to walk on
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in the shadiest and shallowest coves, <br />
some days or even weeks <br />before the general freezing.</span></div>
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The first ice is especially interesting and perfect, <br />
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like a skater insect on the surface of the water, <br />and study the bottom at your
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and the water is necessarily always smooth then.</span><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"> </span></span></div>
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But the ice itself is the object of most interest, <br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The next winter I used a small cooking-stove <br />for economy, <br /> since I did not own the forest; <br /> but it did not keep fire so well as the open fireplace.<br /> Cooking was then, for the most part, <br /> no longer a poetic, <br />but merely a chemic process.<br /> It will soon be forgotten, in these days of stoves, <br /> that we used to roast potatoes in the ashes, <br /> after the Indian fashion. <br /> The stove not only took up room <br />and scented the house, <br /> but it concealed the fire, <br /> and I felt as if I had lost a companion. <br /> You can always see a face in the fire. </span></span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In this lonely glen,<br />
with its brook draining the slopes,<br />
its creased ice and crystals of all hues,<br />
where the spruces and hemlocks stand up <br />on either side,<br />
and the rush and sere wild oats in the rivulet itself,<br />
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visiting for the holiday. Usually, at this time of year, the brook slows to a
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What better way to start off the New Year</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">than to go on the First Day Hike at Moreau Lake State Park?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Parks all across the state of New York are participating in this new tradition. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We were even presented with spiffy little fleece hats with the NY Parks logo on them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Later I found out that this was a part of a national initiative from America's State Parks, with over 400 hikes scheduled this year in all 50 states.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There was quite a turnout at Moreau Lake. Group size had to be limited, and thus some folks were actually turned away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The day began cold but sunny. We walked all the way around the lake, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">mostly along the shoreline. In a year of normal water levels, this wouldn't be possible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Andy, the new intern, officially led the hike. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rebecca, the Park Educator, brought Abby along too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Besides myself, there were several other members of the Friends of Moreau Lake State Park. We took the opportunity to point out some of the great things about the Park, since for some of the hikers, it was their first visit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At the end of the circuit around the Lake, Dave awaited us in the Warming Hut, with hot mulled cider and other treats, to be enjoyed by a toasty fireplace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jackie and I visited here repeatedly in December ... waiting for ice to form so that we could see the bubbles in Bubble Bay, or for a good snowfall to reveal animal tracks. But so far, it has not been a typical Adirondack winter. <br />Temperatures so far this season have wavered back and forth between cold and unseasonably warm, with very little snow. <br />Although there is cloudy grey ice on the shallow and sheltered Back Bay, the Big Lake has yet to freeze over completely.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today there was a fresh layer of skim ice over two-thirds of the lake, and a big area of open water by the Fishin' Bridge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The rains of Christmas melted what little snow there was on the ground, making for a dull brown landscape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Maybe this year, it's because of Global Warming, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">but there was a winter like this back in Thoreau's day, too. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He loved to skate on the river, wade through the snowy woods, and admire ice along the brooks. You can hear his disappointment in a journal entry of December 1855:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">No snow; <br />scarcely any ice to be detected. <br />It is only an <i>aggravated November</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nevertheless, it's great to be outside with other folks who can appreciate such a fine day. <br />And we look forward to better days to come.</span></span><br />
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<br />suephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413896904031019699noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398942393459119985.post-33778444306780468182015-01-18T19:16:00.002-05:002015-01-18T19:16:28.235-05:00Resolution<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As I was driving home from work on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, <br />a list of
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HDT <i>Journal,</i> September 7, 1851<br /><br /><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;">Aeschylus had a clear eye <br /> for the commonest things.</span> </span><br /> HDT <i>Journal,</i> January 29, 1840<br /><br /><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">The meaning I picked, <br />the one that changed my life: <br />Overcome fear, behold wonder. </span><br /> <i> </i>Aeschylus <i>(525-456 BC), Greek tragic dramatist</i>suephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413896904031019699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398942393459119985.post-57624477594663237472014-12-25T08:47:00.002-05:002014-12-25T08:47:10.770-05:00Comfort and Joy<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">December 25, 2014<br />Merry Christmas to one and all !</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This year's Christmas carol comes from the mid-eighteenth century,</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">with a tune first published during Thoreau's childhood. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As with many carols, it came about as a festive alternative to the somber church songs of earlier times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">May you all be refreshed by the joys of the season!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">God rest ye merry, gentlemen<br /> Let nothing you dismay<br /> Remember, Christ, our Saviour<br /> Was born on Christmas day<br /> To save us all from Satan's power<br /> When we were gone astray<br /> O tidings of comfort and joy,<br /> Comfort and joy<br /> O tidings of comfort and joy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /> <br /><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;"> In Bethlehem, in Israel,<br /> This blessed Babe was born<br /> And laid within a manger<br /> Upon this blessed morn<br /> The which His Mother Mary <br /> Did nothing take in scorn<br /> O tidings of comfort and joy,<br /> Comfort and joy<br /> O tidings of comfort and joy<br /> <br /> From God our Heavenly Father<br /> A blessed Angel came;<br /> And unto certain Shepherds<br /> Brought tidings of the same:<br /> How that in Bethlehem was born<br /> The Son of God by Name.<br /> O tidings of comfort and joy,<br /> Comfort and joy<br /> O tidings of comfort and joy</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /> <br /><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;"> "Fear not then," said the Angel,<br /> "Let nothing you affright,<br /> This day is born a Saviour<br /> Of a pure Virgin bright,<br /> To free all those who trust in Him<br /> From Satan's power and might."<br /> O tidings of comfort and joy,<br /> Comfort and joy<br /> O tidings of comfort and joy</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /> <br /><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;"> The shepherds at those tidings<br /> Rejoiced much in mind,<br /> And left their flocks a-feeding<br /> In tempest, storm and wind:<br /> And went to Bethlehem straightway<br /> The Son of God to find.<br /> O tidings of comfort and joy,<br /> Comfort and joy<br /> O tidings of comfort and joy<br /> <br /> And when they came to Bethlehem<br /> Where our dear Saviour lay,<br /> They found Him in a manger,<br /> Where oxen feed on hay;<br /> His Mother Mary kneeling down,<br /> Unto the Lord did pray.<br /> O tidings of comfort and joy,<br /> Comfort and joy<br /> O tidings of comfort and joy</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /> <br /><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;"> Now to the Lord sing praises,<br /> All you within this place,<br /> And with true love and brotherhood<br /> Each other now embrace;<br /> This holy tide of Christmas<br /> All other doth deface.<br /> O tidings of comfort and joy,<br /> Comfort and joy</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I hear a cricket in the Depot
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and find the note proceeds from near a rock. <br /> </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> HDT <i>Journal,</i> August 20, 1851</span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No matter how busy a person
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Now the days become shorter, and tinged with a vague melancholy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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earlier and earlier each day – one can still hear katydids out in the yard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The crunch of leaves
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">such as the evening songs of the crickets. <br />
We cling to the sounds and smells of Summer, hesitant to let it go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This year, we’ve been granted
an extension of sorts. <br />With the exception of a few chilly
mornings, the temperatures have stayed well above normal. <br />
We have yet to experience a frost. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And for a little while
longer, the crickets are still with us – a summer sound which, for Thoreau, was
always a harbinger of autumn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They are shy as birds, these
little bodies. <br />
Those nearest me continually cease their song <br /> as I walk, <br />
so that the singers are always a rod distant, <br />
and I cannot easily detect one. <br />
It is difficult, moreover, to judge correctly <br /> whence the sound proceeds. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They are somewhat protected <br /> by the universalness of the sound, <br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Back in June, we watched several snapping turtles emerge from the canal <br />and dig nests in our backyard, here at Water’s Edge. <br />There was construction going on at the time, but they kept appearing in the morning, digging here and there, ignoring the clamor around them, <br />seemingly oblivious to the risks they took with themselves and their offspring. <br /><br />After all, they’ve chosen this spot for perhaps as long as the canal has been here <br />(it was built in the 1820s.) <br /> With cautious optimism, I’ve told my curious neighbors that we might see hatchlings some time around Labor Day. <br /><br />On the last day of August, I did find one little guy, <br />back in my old neighborhood, along Meadowbrook Road. <br />(I know where to look for them there.) <br /><i>Of course,</i> I helped him get to the marshy slough across the road. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A week later, despite all my apprehensions, <br />the long-awaited hatchlings appeared in our yard at Water’s Edge. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was a warm clear evening, <br />and as several of us sat out on the porch after sunset,<br />one neighbor mentioned that about an hour ago, <br />someone had seen "a little turtle" out there in the grass. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I jumped out of my chair and the search was on ! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We found four of the little guys -- <br />there they were, clambering over the grass and weeds, <br />right out in the open.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Despite sod, concrete, large stones, a vigilant family of crows, <br />and other obstacles, <br />they had left their well-hidden nests <br />and headed straight toward the canal. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They were not fooled by the swimming pool, which they bypassed. <br />It was that murky canal water they aimed for. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Home sweet home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We were witness to a miracle -- to see how they had triumphed, <br />despite the odds being against them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And on <i>September 11, 1854,</i> <br />Thoreau wrote in his </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Journal </i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">of a similar evening:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When to-day it lay within half an inch of the water’s edge,<br />it knew it for a friendly element and, <br />without deliberation or experiment, <br />but at last, <br />when it thought me and all foes unobservant of its motions, <br />with remarkable precipitation <br />it committed itself to it <br />as if realizing a long-cherished idea. …<br /><br />It does not so much impress me as an infantile beginning of life <br />as an epitome of all the past of turtledom <br />and of the earth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">P.S. – Special “Snappy Birth-day” wishes for my friend <br />and fellow <b><a href="http://floraofohio.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">nature-blogger</a> </b><b><span style="color: #ffd966;">Andrew Lane Gibson,</span></b> <br />whose birth-day it is to-day. <br />May you <i>also</i> realize long-cherished ideas in the coming year !</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">June 26, 2014</span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here and There</span></span></i><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">More mid-summer thoughts ... </span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">there is so much going on in the natural world right now, <br />so many different flowers blooming, <br />so much leafy abundance, <br />that it's almost overwhelming. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But then again, it's meant to be !</span><div>
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suephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01413896904031019699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398942393459119985.post-45700477779635397162014-07-22T21:48:00.000-04:002014-07-22T21:52:02.468-04:00Hunters of the Beautiful<i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ffd966;">June 21, 2014 - Summer Solstice<br /> Orra Phelps Preserve, Wilton, NY<br /> and Moreau Lake State Park, NY</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To begin this summer, Jackie and I planned one more full day of walking. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was a Saturday, the Longest Day of the Year, and I had all day to ramble !</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> In the afternoon we would visit Moreau Lake. For the morning, we both signed up for a walk led by Linda Eastman, a nature photographer from Broadalbin, New York. <br />The walk took place in </span><a href="http://www.saratogaplan.org/np_orraphelps.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">Orra Phelps Preserve</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">, where paths wander through lush shady woods along the Snook Kill creek. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Linda started right at the beginning, with a discussion of the basic concepts of photography, and shared some practical tips as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She also had worksheets for us to take, with practice exercises to do on our own. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thanks to Linda, for sharing her wisdom with us, and to<a href="http://www.saratogaplan.org/aboutus_acccomplishments.html" target="_blank"> Saratoga PLAN</a> for organizing another great excursion. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I wish to begin this summer well;<br /> to do something in it worthy of it and of me;<br /> to transcend my daily routine <br /> and that of my townsmen;<br /> to have my immortality now,<br /> that it be in the quality of my daily life;<br /> to pay the greatest price, the greatest tax, <br /> of any man in Concord,<br /> and enjoy the most!!<br /> I will give all I am for my nobility.<br /> I will pay all my days for my success.<br /> I pray that the life of this spring and summer <br /> may lie fair in my memory.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">May I dare as I have never done!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> May I persevere as I have never done!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> May I purify myself anew as with fire and water,</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> soul and body!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> May my melody not be wanting to the season!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> May I gird myself to be a hunter of the beautiful, </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> that naught escape me!</span><br /><br /> HDT,<i> Journal</i>, March 15, 1852</span><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And so the seasons went rolling on into summer,<br />as one rambles into higher and higher grass.</span><br style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;" /><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-HDT, </span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Walden</i></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The <b>third and last day </b>of my vacation, I planned to walk with Jackie
up to the Spring Overlook, which has become a sort of Solstice tradition. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The skies were full of gentle sunshine and small clouds, so
typical of a June day.<br />
Before meeting her for our walk, I made a stop at the powerline easement at Mud
Pond, to check for Wood Lilies in bloom. <br />
Two years ago-- before some major clearing and herbicide spraying occurred here -- we had
counted over 80 lilies in one short section. Last summer, we saw but a handful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today, I was hard-pressed to find ten rather small plants.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The effects of the spraying seem to last for more than a year ... must be pretty nasty stuff !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So basically, my day was complete: I’d seen a Wood Lily on Mid-Summer Eve. <br />Anything else would be gravy. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There’s a section of easement on the way up to the Spring
Overlook too, which was part of our plan. That’s the first spot we had seen
these lilies, a few years ago. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We started up the Spring Overlook trail, and after a short
time walking through the woods, reached the easement crossing. <br />Lots of careful searching revealed oceans
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At that point, Jackie suggested a change of plan. <br />Well, we
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She knew of another section of easement, a mile or two to
the east, and it led up a ridge that had intrigued us for a long time. Jackie
had gone partway up this ridge, back in the fall.<br />
Not only could we check for lilies there, she said, there would be fine views
of the river valley as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Only problem was, there was no trail. Whatsoever. <br />
From a distance, it looked like easy walking, but soon we were waist-deep in
ferns and brambly brush. Uh… I muttered to myself … there’s not enough tick
repellent in the world to protect you in a place like that ! </span><br />
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As we worked our way up, the walking would get easier, at openings in the
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the river valley to see a little black helicopter, flying along the powerlines, just above the tops of the metal
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Nah,” said Jackie. “We’re
just looking at flowers.”<br />
I started searching for an easy way over the woods, as the chopper noise got
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There were piles of slash here and there, from previous clearing work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Oh !” she suggested.
“--maybe they are SPRAYING” <br />
– at which point, I lept like an spastic deer, over to the edge of the woods. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The buzzing was a dull roar now. I could see Jackie standing in the
clearing, her bright pink shirt shining in the sun, giving a friendly little
wave at the sky. <br /><br />
It sounded as if the helicopter hovered in place for a moment --<br />(although I’m not
sure, since I was cowering in the woods, thinking of those Vietnam movies where
the platoon leader yells,<br />
“Don’t look up !”)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">To float thus on the silver-plated stream<br /> Is like embarking on a train of thought itself.<br /> You are surrounded by water, <br /> Which is full of reflections;<br /> And you see the earth at a distance, <br /> Which is very agreeable to the imagination.</span><br /> HDT <i>Journal, </i>August 14, 1854</span><br />
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I’ve seen this small and elegant native orchid in places further north – is this
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Pushing off – ah that moment when gravity drops away, and I am
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I was never more than ten miles from home, but oh what glorious days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Big Beach was pretty popular, with picnic tables, snack bar and lifeguards; so I went over to Little Beach instead. Just an empty stretch of sand across the way.<br />
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occurred that caused quite a bit of re-arranging of my personal time. <br />
Suffice it to say that after working many years on an evening schedule, <br />it was
decided that I should henceforth work on days.
<br />There’s more to it than that, <br />but let’s just say that I am grateful to
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if in mourning. <br />
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On weekends, I do have at least one day to wander free for hours, <br />in the woods
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March?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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when I feel the warmth reflected from this sunny bank, <br />
and see the yellow sand and the reddish subsoil, <br />
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How many springs I have had this same experience! <br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A thick fog. <br />
The trees and woods look well through it. <br />
You are inclined to walk in the woods for objects. <br />
They are draped with mist, <br />and you hear the sound of it dripping from them. <br />
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<br />Though Phil saw his shadow this morning, it was plenty cloudy here today, <br />and I was not able
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and, no, this isn't some sort of critter -- it is a bit of husk from a hop-hornbeam that had some sort of hair on the stem end of it. (?)<br />[that one is for YOU, Link - remember our walk in these very woods last June? ]</span></div>
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the difference in just seven days of colder weather was amazing.<br />(see her blog of our day, <a href="http://saratogawoodswaters.blogspot.com/2014/02/frazil-report-one-week-later.html" target="_blank">here</a>.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">where once we sat with the Thursday Naturalists on a hot summer’s day,<br />having a
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The river having suddenly gone down since the freshet, <br />
I see cakes of ice eight or ten feet across<br />
left two feet high or more above the banks, <br />
frozen to four or five maples or oaks. <br />
Indeed, each shore is lined with them …<br />
they are somewhat like tables of a picnic party <br />or a muster-field dinner. <br />
Rustic tables and seats.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now I go a fishing & a hunting every day<br />
but omit the fish & the game -– <br /> which are the least important part –-<br />I have learned to do without them. <br />
They were indispensable only as long as I was a boy --.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />covering the previous drab and crunchy layer. <br />We saw only two people out on the
ice fishing, a father and son. <br />The cold didn’t seem to bother them, even out in
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their preferred winter food. <br />Most of them have been stripped of their greenery,
with only tufts at the ends of the branches, where the porkies could not go.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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cold. <br />We were feeling it, though, even though we were both pretty well bundled up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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[about Rockport, Massachusetts]</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Still held on without a break<br />
the inland barrens and shrubbery,<br />
the desert and the high sand-bank with its even slope, <br />
the broad white beach,<br />
the breakers,<br />
the green water on the bar,<br />
and the Atlantic Ocean; <br />
and we traversed with delight new reaches of the shore …</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One more batch of memories of my beach vacation …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This year, instead of museums, or schooner-rides, or shopping
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(not that those aren’t pleasant pursuits),<br />
Our days very quickly devolved into visits to various beaches, <br />
each within minutes of our hotel (which was itself right on a beach), <br />
to spend several hours thereon just relaxing,<br />
and letting the eye enjoy wide vistas,<br />
and the mind spin free.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At that time of year, there were no admission fees, <br />
No crowds to speak of, <br />No bugs,<br />
No menu but what we packed in the little
cooler, <br />
And no clocks to pay attention to. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fond memories, <br />and things to look forward to in the future,<br />to keep me warm on a cold snowy evening,
far inland.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i>HDT,<i> A Winter’s Walk,</i> essay first published in <i>The Dial</i>, 1843</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On that cold morning walk as I returned to health,<br />I saw a thing in someone’s front yard that
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh! It triggered a memory of warmer days -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">her finny tail trapped in the dirty snow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She’s gazing eastward, as am I.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here is a look back to September – to my visit to Cape Ann,<br />the summer in my heart today:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and the scenery never fails to en-trance you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Enjoy this quote from Thoreau -- <br />when he was actually pretty far
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Or perhaps he was just ahead of his time …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The time will come when this coast will be <br />a place of resort<br />for those New-Englanders <br />who really wish
to visit the seaside.<br />At present it is wholly unknown to the
fashionable world, <br />
and probably it will never be agreeable to them.</span><br />
HDT, "Provincetown,” Cape Cod, 1865</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>[NOTE: if you want to see where we stay while in Rockport, visit <a href="http://www.captainsbountymotorinn.com/" target="_blank">this link</a>. <br />It's an awesome location, and the innkeepers, who live on the premises, <br />make it a pleasant experience for all. It's dog-friendly, too.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>After seeing these photos again, I called Tim and made our 2014 reservations -- today!] </i></span></div>
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