Up Close & Personal: A Place of Peace & Beauty

Hi Gina,

Some days you just need to get away from it all.  

These days are like that, a respite to reflect before rejoining the mainstream.  Hard not to have a heavy heart when you feel the sadness and fear abroad, and when you observe very public figures emerge as symptoms of real, serious problems not as problem-solvers.

It has been dry here, and we worry about our farming neighbors.

The Upper Hudson is trending DRY!

Yesterday I got out on the river.  Here is a view of the house (and deck) from the water:

Along the Upper Hudson

As you know, we live on River Section Two -- the portion where the "dredge success rate" was less than 50% -- but, with clam shell diggers and tugs gone, the river has resumed its peaceful late-Spring quality.

(I did see a team of three EPA monitors in their orange vests zipping along in their aluminum craft yesterday, so I know all is not forgotten...?)

River Section Two is the only portion of the Hudson that boats cannot "through-navigate": they must take the Champlain Canal on the Eastern, Washington County side.  This makes our portion of the river more like a lake -- especially in calm, low-water season -- than a river.

How many rivers feature water lilys?

Life atop America's Most Beautiful Superfund Site

The river is a place of peace and beauty.  

We are hoping that you will help us take better care of it.  

The awareness has been raised, the job started.  

Let's move forward, sooner?