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Sitting on the couch
Laptop screaming in silence,
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A Morning Guest
A little friend I saw this morning just off of my front steps.
Flowers at the Elephant Trunk
“When words escape, flowers speak.”
-Bruce W. Currie
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”
-Luther Burbank
These flowers were also at the Elephant Trunk Flea Market. I believed that they needed a space all of their own instead of being meixed in with everything else that was for sale.
Elephant Trunk
If it is a Sunday in July, then it must be time for another visit to the Elephant Trunk Flea Market. Today’s weather was beautiful and although we weren’t looking for anything in particular, it is always nice to see what people have. And, you never what you are going to come home with!
I couldn’t resist starting the photographs off with this one. Every one of you with a teenager can relate to what it is saying!
I love this!!!
As with every flea market, each of the vendors display an incredible array of items that are usually a reflection of themselves and what they like to collect (and are willing to part with).
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The Woods
The woods can see,
A sense of tranquility.
Resonating from the clean earth,
Absorbing anguish
Shedding the veil of today
With the promise of tomorrow.
Iron Mines Short Loop (4)
“Hiking is the answer. Who cares what the question is.
-Anonymous
“I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph.”
-Leon Levinstein
After resting my ankle for three days, I decided it was time to get back out into the woods. The swelling was gone and it felt pretty good so I figured at the very least I would lace the boots up and if it hurt too much I could just turn around and end today’s hike early.
As you pull into the parking lot, this is your view.
Lake Skannatati
As is the norm with most of my summer hikes, I got the parking area pretty early today. Since it is the day before Independence Day, I thought that even at this hour more people would have been out. But at 6:10 am, the only other person I saw was this guy fishing!
To the right of the lake you immediately see a kiosk and two trails. This will be the start as well as the end of the hike. The blue blazed Long Path is on your left and the red triangle A-SB (Arden Surebridge) will be on your right.
The beginning and end of the hike.
Starting on the Long Path, you will wind your way around the lake, mainly staying on even ground. As you move deeper into the woods, you begin a series of small ups and downs on the trail until you intersect with the yellow blazed Dunning Trail. If you are looking for an even shorter hike than this one, you could make the right onto this trail and it will eventually intersect with the A-SB trail. Instead, take a left and after a few minutes the Long Path will turn off to the right while Dunning Trail stays on the left.
The Long Path intersects with the Dunning Trail
Staying on the LP, you begin a steady climb until you reach the A-SB trail.
The blue blazed Long Path
Red Triangle A-SB Trail
Heading down the A-SB Trail back towards the lake.
Once you turn onto the A-SB trail, it’s mainly all downhill until you get to the lake.
Overall I enjoyed this hike. The difficulty rating of moderate that I have seen in its description seems appropriate. The only negative thing that I can see with it, and this has been an issue with the Long Path in the past is the way that they blaze the trail. While I was on the LP today I spent way to much today not being able to find blazes and I had to reroute myself several times. They could definitely put some of the blazes closer together and at critical junctures make it easier to follow them.
Summer 2017 Mileage:
7/3/17-4.3-16.02
The Monster Awaits
The monster awaits.
Steely dark eyes mask each day,
Ignoring the truth
Prophecy
A change in my mind
Veils lifted from my eyes
Prescient warning
A Baker’s Dozen (Phish Style)
At the end of January the band Phish announced that they would be playing thirteen nights at Madison Square Garden, aptly titled “A Baker’s Dozen”. Running from late July into early August, this announcement has excited Phishheads everywhere. I have to admit that when I first saw that they would be spending so much time in my backyard (I live an hour outside of NYC), I knew that I would be able to see a couple of shows.
When the shows went on sale in mid February, I was lucky enough to get the two shows that I wanted and I thought that would be enough. But as any fan of Phish (or any jam band) knows, if more shows are for sale, then you have to see what is available! So a couple of weeks after getting my initial two shows, I went back to Ticketmaster fully expecting the run to be sold out. But lo and behold, it wasn’t. Now I am going to three shows.
Over the next five weeks I kept getting alerts from Ticketmaster and ended up going to the website to see if tickets were still around for this unprecedented string of shows. I soon added a fourth, a fifth and then a sixth show. My question is, when will it end? Isn’t six out of thirteen shows enough? Spread out over the full run, it’s not like I’m going to first six, last six or the middle six shows. I should get a full representation of what they will offer their fans this summer. So what do I do?
Oh crap, can’t answer that now. I have to go. I just another alert from Ticketmaster…
The Zen Hiker 