[Margaret]
> I'm in the Panhandle of Florida - I live on a bay
> about 12 miles east of Pensacola - it is absolute
> heaven on earth for me. I'm just a couple of miles
> north of the Gulf - white sand beaches and emerald
> water - but my house is in the middle of pine and
oak tree
> woods and natural marshy wetlands that separate
> the house from a little sandy beach and this huge
> bay that stretches all the way to Pensacola- there
are
> oysters always cultivating out in the bay, Flounder
> and other fishing - the water in front of my house
> is only about 1-3 ft deep for about 600 feet out
> so you can wade out there for quite a ways and
> watch the crabs and the little fish go by.
> I think one of my most favorite activities
> is listening/watching a storm come across the
> bay from the west - listening to the rain on the
> water as it approaches and then the wind hitting
> the tops of the tall pine trees.
> where are you at - if you told me before I'm sorry
> I've forgotten? obviously very far north where
> there is snow!
SA: My family, wife, son, and I with our Jack Russell
Terrier mixed Beagle dog, live in western Pennsylvania
between the north to south flowing Allegheny River and
north to south flowing Beaver River. Lake Erie is due
north about 2 hours by combustible engine. Beaver
River flows into the more notable Ohio River. We live
about 30-40 minutes by vehicle from the Point, as it's
referred to around here, where the Monongahela,
Allegheny rivers meet to form the Ohio. This is the
foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Many hills,
and in some places all's you do is go down and up,
down and up, down and up in some places your up and
down 3-4 hills in only 1 mile. We live at the edge of
the foothills where the hills are beginning to tone
down their wavelengths and the slope longer into a
valley and up again. Some of the valleys hold
marshland as well due to slowing of the slopes and
widening of the valley's. Pennsylvania has the third
most water ways next to Minnesota and Alaska due to
hills and hills and mountains were each slope has what
is referred to around here as a hollow were springs
flow from between the bosoms of the hills down into
the numerous valleys that are themselves another bosom
of larger hills into another valley of a larger creek,
eventually to large rivers, which on the western
region of Pennsylvania are the Allegheny, Monongahela,
and Ohio rivers, the eastern part of the state has the
Susquehanna and Delaware Rivers. The highest peak
being Mt. Davis in the south-central-more west than
east region at and over ca. 3,000 ft. Mt. Davis is
probably a ca. 3.5 hour drive away. As one goes north
into the lessening slopage the land becomes more flat
with the still occasional hill and boom! - Lake Erie
is seen off in the distance down a longggggg hill.
The trees were we live on this long meandering
ridge-line are mostly red and sugar maples with
choke-cherry trees, oaks, some beech trees, occasional
black birch and patches of eastern hemlock trees with
an isolated white pine tree every now and then. We
are about 45 yards away from train tracks were a train
comes at variable times. Sometimes twice a day,
sometimes once a week, sometimes once every two weeks
to haul and drop off cars on the other side of the
ridge where some very small factories stand and an 84
lumber company. We live in an old hunter's camp or
train station workers house from about 80-90 years
ago. The train tracks come up hill from the Point,
all uphill, until it reaches this ridge, which is the
highest point of the tracks thus far, and then it's
downhill for the train on the other side. The tracks
go uphill from the Point, thus about 30-40 miles, to
this ridge-line. White-tailed deer, turkey, black
bears, coyote, groundhogs, red and gray fox, eastern
chipmunk, black crows, red-tailed hawk, osprey, great
blue herons, are the more abundant animals, obviously
other than human beings, in this immediate region.
Bald eagles, green herons, and perigan falcons are
occasionally seen. Further north on ones way to Lake
Erie, porcupines become more abundant, mink and pine
marten can be found, though I've never seen the most
latter. Ravens can be heard further north as well,
where I backpack and camp most often (still in western
PA about 1 to 1.5 hours away by vehicle). The ravens
are a pleasant sound, especially due to the more
familiar crow sound in these parts. Ron and Arlo
probably hear ravens more often than I.
And yes, it is cold now, snow is on the earth,
and not to long ago some snow flakes fell on this
cloudy day where the blackberries, wild strawberries
and wild blueberries lay dormant til spring and
they'll bear fruit at seasonal moments as the south
will be seen more. The south sticks close to the
southern horizon in the winter, and in the summer the
sun does not go into the northern part of the sky
during mid-day, it does reach close to the center,
yet, during the summer when the sun comes up and goes
down it comes up in the northeast and travels south as
it rises and goes into the southern sky near the
center, then travels down into the northwest. The
moon is following the sun's trail during this cold
winter season.
I want to comment on where you live in a moment, but I
need to go, so, I'm going to send this and get back to
that a little later.
Thanks.
black-capped chick-a-dee,
SA
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