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Olana
I spent last weekend in the Hudson River Valley – not nearly enough time. I saw the Dia Foundation’s modern art museum in Beacon, NY on Saturday; and, on Sunday, Olana – Frederic Edwin Church’s home on the top … Continue reading
A Little Bite of the Big Apple
I stayed in Princeton two nights (see my last post), which gave me one day to spend in New York museum-going. I caught a very early morning train – but not too early for the regular commuters – and returned … Continue reading
Going Back
It is curiosity rather than compulsion, I think, that is sending me back to a few places in my past. Curiosity about change – in the places and in me. Do the places resemble, in any way, the memories that … Continue reading
Old Gardens
May is a wonderful time to tour gardens, and this May has probably been one of the East Coast’s bests because temperatures stayed cool during the first half of the month, and rain was plentiful. I haven’t actually put a … Continue reading
Bombay Hook Wildlife Refuge
The Bombay Hook area of central Delaware has had this intriguing name since the 17th century when an Indian Chief sold marshland to Dutch settlers called “Boompies Hoock”; the settlers found the name difficult to pronounce, and it soon became … Continue reading
The First State
Taking it on the road again – my third road trip since I retired four years ago – I’m driving up the east coast from Richmond to southern Maine. There are specific people I want to see, and specific things … Continue reading
Cedar Key People
There are short-term tourists who visit Cedar Key for a few days – – “snow birds” who come for stays of a few months – – and the real people of Cedar Key, who live there twelve months of the … Continue reading
The Gaze
The southeastern sky is lithographed color–purple-pink, smoky slate – above blue silky water. On my far left over the raggedy roofs of Dock Street there’s a yellow sliding towards orange, where the sun will come up. Four scaup ducks float … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Travel, USA
Tagged Cedar Key, Florida, Marcel Proust, scaup ducks, sunrise
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John Muir’s Cedar Key
The young John Muir left Indianapolis on September 1, 1867 “joyful and free, on a thousand-mile walk to the Gulf of Mexico” and reached Cedar Key on October 23 of that year. I recently read the published version of his … Continue reading
Posted in Travel, USA
Tagged Cedar Key, Florida, John Muir, live oak trees, Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge
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Burn to Grow
The Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge, like many national parks and forests, uses ”prescribed burn” or “controlled burning” to approximate the natural fires – once typical in pine, scrub and marsh plant environments – that maintain certain wildlife (gopher tortoises, … Continue reading
Posted in Travel, USA
Tagged Florida, Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge, prescribed burn
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