J.M.W. Turner's "Chichester Canal" at the Tate Gallery, London

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Shandaken emergency

Town of Shandaken is mailing out an Emergency Prep Letter and a survey. Both are available on its Facebook page, as well as its website.

Just to remind those of us getting sick of winter that sunnier and warmer days lie ahead, here is a photo of Phoenicia taken from the Tanbark Trail on Mount Tremper.



Wednesday, January 9, 2013

December snow

At the end of December 2012, when New York City received half an inch of rain, a foot of snow fell in Chichester. When we arrived on Friday, the 28th, I saw evidence that the weather had changed drastically since I'd last been in Chi, in mid-November: