Thoughts on consumption

by | Nov 23, 2010 | Get This

“Adopting a land ethic is easy and painless for most of us today because it imposes the primary burden to act on someone else.” —Douglas W. MacCleery, United States Forestry Service forester, writing about a decade ago. And more: “While few of us are...
Junk from the past, all part of trail work

Junk from the past, all part of trail work

by | Nov 12, 2010 | Get This

Tires, auger, car door, and other junk hauled out of the woods About seven years ago, after covering thousands of miles of woods trails over many years of hiking, my husband Nat and I signed up to be trail maintainers for part of the Mattabesett Trail in Middletown,...
The last sunset, sort of

The last sunset, sort of

by | Nov 6, 2010 | Get This

Sky in Deep River, Connecticut, 5:41 p.m., November 6, 2010 Here is the last sunset of the summer, so to speak. The day after I saw this view out of my kitchen window, I would expect total darkness at the same hour. The latest incarnation of the law governing Daylight...
Free water

Free water

by | Oct 26, 2010 | Get This

Drinking fountain and sign at the University of Montana The United States still seems big when I travel thousands of miles from Connecticut. Here in this photograph a sensibility I don’t see in Connecticut greets everyone headed to the rest rooms of the...