Category Archives: Nature

The Last Tree in the World

October 2, 2019 – 2:05 am

The right have long suspected Global Warming as a propaganda device foisted on the masses to prevent them from riding SUVs, but these millions of fat people sweat too much, which is the main cause for the temperature rise. I’m also overweight, although most of it is beer bloat. If you are not part of […]

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Bridges On The Hudson

September 2, 2019 – 9:25 pm

Perfection? A few passengers boarded at Rhinebeck. The sun dropped low. Even for this last day in the solstice cycle. The river was calm enough to please the early explorers Jean Cabot and Henry Hudson. It is called a drowned river and the dead always speak with quiet in their hearts. I looked out the […]

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Roads To Nowhere Catskills

September 1, 2019 – 6:19 am

The Catskills are less than two hours from Dutchess County, so when my host in Millbrook suggested a road trip to visit friends across the Hudson on a splendid September morning, I was all green lights. Andrew’s wife opted out of the journey. Her kids were a handful on long rides. We set off after […]

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Rainbow off Palm Beach

March 23, 2019 – 11:50 pm

The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is usually in the backyard of a mansion although in this case it must be a pirate treasure frolicking along the current of the Gulf Stream. Palm Beach 02/2011

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HIPPIE BEACH BUMS by Peter Nolan Smith

April 17, 2018 – 4:10 am

Every evening the breeze off the Pacific wreathed the coastal towns north of San Diego in a thin mist. The July mist wreathed the towns north of San Diego and a clear dew clung to the flowers well through the morning. Some time before noon the sun pierced the overcast and its rays evaporated the […]

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