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asakiyumeYesterday mallorys_camera and I went for a walk in a location more or less equidistant between the two of us (more or less... it was closer to me, though). After a couple of false starts that included infiltrating the high school bathrooms during a soccer tournament (we blended right in: "How's Dustin enjoying soccer, Sandy?" she asked me. "Oh, he's loving it, Lisa. He'll be playing for Real Madrid one day, you just wait"), we found ourselves at the entrance to the Housatonic Flats Reserve.
The gate was shut but the fairies had left a garland--our invitation.
The area used to be a dumping grounds, but people cleaned it up, and in the last days of September, it has an ethereal beauty.
Here, old man's beard climbs skyward.
Sadly, the Housatonic River was poisoned for decades by General Electric, which dumped PCBs into it. North of this site, in the city of Pittsfield, remediation has been undertaken, but not yet for the town of Great Barrington, where this reserve is, though any day now... As a consequence, there is this sobering warning as you begin your walk:
"No coma" is Spanish: Don't Eat. But at first I saw it as English and was very confused. No coma? Sounds good to me! I don't want or intend to fall into a coma!
I am happy to report that we ate no frogs, fish, or turtles and fell into no comas. There was a tasty green feral apple, however.
mallorys_camera and I went for a walk in a location more or less equidistant between the two of us (more or less... it was closer to me, though). After a couple of false starts that included infiltrating the high school bathrooms during a soccer tournament (we blended right in: "How's Dustin enjoying soccer, Sandy?" she asked me. "Oh, he's loving it, Lisa. He'll be playing for Real Madrid one day, you just wait"), we found ourselves at the entrance to the Housatonic Flats Reserve.The gate was shut but the fairies had left a garland--our invitation.
The area used to be a dumping grounds, but people cleaned it up, and in the last days of September, it has an ethereal beauty.
Here, old man's beard climbs skyward.
Sadly, the Housatonic River was poisoned for decades by General Electric, which dumped PCBs into it. North of this site, in the city of Pittsfield, remediation has been undertaken, but not yet for the town of Great Barrington, where this reserve is, though any day now... As a consequence, there is this sobering warning as you begin your walk:
"No coma" is Spanish: Don't Eat. But at first I saw it as English and was very confused. No coma? Sounds good to me! I don't want or intend to fall into a coma!
I am happy to report that we ate no frogs, fish, or turtles and fell into no comas. There was a tasty green feral apple, however.
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