Category Archives: Nature

All The Leaves Are Brown

November 18, 2014 – 8:52 pm

Sunday morning I took this photo from the top floor of the Fort Greene Observatory. The sky was gray and the Mamas and Papas’ CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ rang in my ears. I was 2900 miles from the West Coast and rain sloshed on the sidewalk. I went to work in wet gear. The streets of Manhattan […]

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Screech Beach

September 6, 2014 – 8:15 pm

Back in the 70s this building housed the insane. The wards overlooked the nude beach at Riis Park. I loved lying on the sand and hearing them yell at naked people on Screech Beach. All gone now. The mad and the naked on Screech Beach.

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Burning California

May 20, 2014 – 10:27 am

Throughout the 20th Century California symbolized paradise to most Americans and millions of people from the rust Belt and Deep South and Dust Bowl deserted their hometowns to populate the Pacific state. Towns became cities and cities spread into the mountains as well as up the coast with a foreseeable cost. Gone are the Los […]

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Smoldering Forests

May 9, 2014 – 12:25 pm

Several years ago my ex-wife, my daughter, dog and I toured the River Kwai. The mountains were featherded by plumes of smoke from where farmers were burning the slopes to cut back vegetation for fruit orchards. When I mentioned this violation to the rangers at the forestry station, they shrugged with ineffectiveness. “Mai mi alai samlat yut fi mai.” […]

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Winter’s Hold

April 17, 2014 – 8:38 pm

This winter New York’s first snow was a light dusting on November 12, 2013. Two days ago I woke to a white blanket on the backyard below the Fort Greene Observatory. There wasn’t much of an accumulation, however this evening I walked out onto South Oxford Street and muttered, “Damn winter.” The hard season won’t […]

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