Today is December 9, 2023 and I visited Rock Point around 2:30pm. I noticed right away the dramatic decrease of color in the landscape since the last time I visited in the beginning of November. I took the same trail and sat at the same spot on the cliff overlooking the lake. There were no…

(No I’m not from New Jersey thank god) My family and I spend every Thanksgiving at my grandparents’ house in Harrington Park, New Jersey, about an hour from where I live in Connecticut. It’s a super suburban-y old people area. There is a lot of trees and greenery everywhere, it’s not very urban at all.…

I sat on a rock right at the edge of the cliff overlooking Lake Champlain and the distant mountains for almost an hour, or until whenever my fingertips started going numb. Looking down, I could see the the rocky shore with all of its differently colored pebbles and stripes of calcium. Two chipmunks were making…