new hampshire: Vacation's Over - Now It's Time to Be Like Marti
- 09/03/09 07:01 AM
It was a lovely respite - 10 days on the lake in New Hampshire with beautiful days and deep, dark nights with loons calling across the water. If I hadn't been working on a project near to my heart, I would have relaxed more, but I knew it would be like that. It was a blessing of sorts that there's no Internet at the cabin, that we had to take our laptops to the local library to get and send email. Boy, does that focus your reading and writing!
But now we're home and getting into the rapid speed-up of … (9 comments)
new hampshire: Talismans for Friday the 13th
- 02/13/09 01:23 AM
I'm not a superstitious person. When I see a black cat I call, "Here, kitty, kitty." I walk under ladders if they are between me and where I'm going. Friday the 13th is no big deal – one of my nephews was born on a Friday the 13th and he's a great guy. No rabbit ever lost a foot for me. So why is there so much stuff hanging around my work area? My talismans are all within view and easy reach as I work. There is comfort in their familiarity. Each piece has a reason for being here, even … (5 comments)
new hampshire: View From the Top
- 12/24/08 02:20 AM
Top of the east coast, that is. Mt. Washington, NH, home of the world's worst weather. This volunteer supported and funded weather observatory is home to an extraordinary group of people who just love vicious cold, high winds, and isolation. Every hour they go out to take measurements and readings, and to gather the data that often ends up on our local weather report. Most days I stop by the website to see what's happening atop the rockpile, and to get a view from the webcam. And yes, I do support them because I think it's important work, because they … (0 comments)
new hampshire: My Dance with Wolves
- 09/19/08 09:09 AM
It was a sparkling late August day, typical of New Hampshire's Lakes Region. Blue sky, fair weather clouds, and glacier-made lakes reflecting the first signs of fall. Too soon for leaf-peepers but not yet Labor Day, so there were still plenty of tourists thronging to the outlets and "family attractions." We had a different destination as we drove east into Maine and meandered north criss-crossing the state line until we turned off on a dirt road that led us back over a mile into the land of the wolf and wolf-dog. Fred Keating started taking in animals over 20 years … (10 comments)
new hampshire: Blueberry Bonanza
- 09/04/08 02:51 AM
If you've never sat in the midst of a patch of blueberry bushes and enjoyed the delicious anticipation of picking wild blueberries, this may not mean much to you. But one of the delights of going to the mountains of New Hampshire for vacation – for me, at least – is picking wild blueberries, freezing them, and bringing them home to become mid-winter blueberry muffins, pies, and cobblers. I know you can get "blueberries" in the grocery store, but to me those factory-farm-grown gigantic puffs are tasteless in comparison to their wild cousins. The real thing grows on bushes that may … (10 comments)
new hampshire: Weather Wherever
- 07/23/06 01:05 PM
One of George Carlin’s classic routines was the hippie-dippie weatherman who proclaimed (through his own personal fog) that “There’s gonna be weather...everywhere!” These days, there are weather blogs everywhere.I find it interesting that two types of scientists with equal passion for their work are so different when it comes to blogging. Engineers don’t blog, but weather observers and forecasters just love to share their thoughts. A bit of research showed that TV stations across the country have blogs for their weather folk - the South and Midwest seem to be particularly fond of blogging. In addition to the TV and radio … (0 comments)
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