by RobertTownsend | Mar 14, 2015 | Deception
March 14, 2015 Over the last several days the temperature has risen from -30F to +60F yesterday (well, +56F). Nice. The snow this winter, three feet deep in parts of the tamarack plantation protected from wind, has melted to slush and water. I had cut trails...
by RobertTownsend | Jan 14, 2015 | Deception
The Four Seasons Winter The second-floor window looks west over a moon-lit landscape, black forest the border to snow-swept fields intensifying the moon’s reflected light. Just above the SW horizon Mercury and Venus lie close. The nights have been clear and...
by RobertTownsend | Dec 12, 2014 | Deception
Early morning, December 12, 2014: The Town of Russell school bus, a veritable light show of blinking and flashing amber and red and strobe lights, flies past in the pre-dawn darkness. The temperature hovers either side of freezing. The forest, gray and white save...