February 21, 2007

• The Cold is Lifting .......

  ......and yesterday although only in the 40's it felt like spring, it was a beautiful day . All the ice melted, which is not great news for the local ice skaters, but good news for people who do not wish to slip and fall.

  I have been able to drive around and take pictures, when there is no snow and the colors are all muddy, people do not see much beauty in their surroundings, But I find such beauty everywhere I look. I always try to find color in the winter and sometimes I manage to find some

  

  Sometimes Spirit just leads me to things or places .. and this was one of those places .. I found this on a dead end back road that I have driven past almost every day for almost a year now. We don't see all that many of these types of things on the island anymore and its a shame because it just brings me back to another time and place ...

  

  The back road lanscape out here is dotted with little unknown parks and spaces you can wander. This is one of them, it is a place to launch your canoe if you wish to, or to simply wander around in the woods and take pictures, which is what I love doing since I was a youngster...collecting pine cones ..and leaves... this is what we should be teaching the children instead of cramming them into as many sports as their poor little exhausted bodies can take..Really when was the last time you saw a child bird watching and collecting pine cones ...

   Communing with nature and walking amongst is the best way to get exercise and commune with Mother Earth ...we need to teach the children this, if we don't - they will never respect her beauty !!

  

  This along the Peconic River and is another area to launch your boat, the road is busy and the spot is scenic. People take this beauty for granted. This is a little waterfall where the rivers steps down a level and then runs into the town..it is a beautiful spot.

   

  

  This is the Peconic River and she is so beautiful. There are many places of amazing beauty along her shores. One of my favorite places is the 13 acre Peconic River Herb Garden, wonderful place to spend a day, picnic, take pictures and then buy some herbs !!

   

  

  This is Bamboo .. it is not a plant that is native to Long Island. The first place it was planted was at the LIRR Experimental farm in Medford. I LOVE bamboo because it is a nice privacy screen and it also stays green all year long and gives color at a time in the year when the landscape can look barren and dull. There are many people who hate bamboo because it is a very invasive plant and  I have heard all kinds of horror stories of it growing into the neighbors yard and coming up through basement floors and such.. In a park setting, it simply looks amazing.

   

  

  And finally there is the night sky which in the winter is often an incredible shade of blue just before the stars begin to twinkle.

  

  I have alot more pictures to upload so maybe I will get to post some more before spring comes ! LOL  xoxoxoxoxo C xoxoxoxoxox

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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