“Life finds a way.” ~Jeff Goldblum
Very beautiful, photog. I’d love to visit New England again someday (the last time was when I was ten, fourteen years ago, and it was a brief sojourn in Maine on my way to Nova Scotia with my grandparents). One of my colleagues is from New Hampshire, and he credits the crisp, pure New England air with his continued vigor into old age.
Glad you like it. I’m in a very wet corner of southern New England and moss, lichen and fungus is a constant. Even in the driest hottest week in July we’re just one thunderstorm away from some new mushroom sprouting up out of the dry ground. New England is interesting but not being a skier I like the summer much, much more than the winter. Winter is a toilsome time for me. Snow removal can be onerous when you can have one hundred and twenty inches of it to move each year just to get to work.
Here in the South, we also get tons of lichens and mushrooms every time there’s a thunderstorm (which is pretty much every afternoon in the summer, unless we’re in a drought). Our summers are brutal with the humidity, but our winters are a cakewalk. You and Camera Girl should head down to good ol’ South Carolina one winter. It’s still cold this time of year, but we’ll have 70+ degree days (one day last week got up to about 81, which was record-breaking for that date). In another month, it’ll really be lovely, as we enjoy our ~2-3 weeks of… Read more »
You’re right. I think the warmth of some place farther south than New England would suit us better. But how are the politics in SC verging lately? That’s the other part of the northeast I am fleeing. I’m looking for an environment where my views aren’t anathema.
We’re still very deep-red Republican here, though at the local level in larger cities it’s pretty blue due to demographics. Because we have such a substantial minority of black Americans, some areas are fairly blue, or at least purple. US House District 6 is Jim Clyburn’s district, and for years he was our only congressional Democrat. In 2018, the Dems picked up US-1, but that was a fluke, I think: the GOP candidate, Katie Arrington, was in a bad car crash, which inhibited her ability to campaign, and she lost by only a few thousand votes. That’s the district with… Read more »
Well, I’m glad to hear you guys haven’t fallen off the cliff like New Hampshire and Maine. And thank you for your kind offer. I hope someday to take you up on your generosity. Maybe one day we can host you up in New England.
“Life finds a way.” ~Jeff Goldblum
Very beautiful, photog. I’d love to visit New England again someday (the last time was when I was ten, fourteen years ago, and it was a brief sojourn in Maine on my way to Nova Scotia with my grandparents). One of my colleagues is from New Hampshire, and he credits the crisp, pure New England air with his continued vigor into old age.
Glad you like it. I’m in a very wet corner of southern New England and moss, lichen and fungus is a constant. Even in the driest hottest week in July we’re just one thunderstorm away from some new mushroom sprouting up out of the dry ground. New England is interesting but not being a skier I like the summer much, much more than the winter. Winter is a toilsome time for me. Snow removal can be onerous when you can have one hundred and twenty inches of it to move each year just to get to work.
Here in the South, we also get tons of lichens and mushrooms every time there’s a thunderstorm (which is pretty much every afternoon in the summer, unless we’re in a drought). Our summers are brutal with the humidity, but our winters are a cakewalk. You and Camera Girl should head down to good ol’ South Carolina one winter. It’s still cold this time of year, but we’ll have 70+ degree days (one day last week got up to about 81, which was record-breaking for that date). In another month, it’ll really be lovely, as we enjoy our ~2-3 weeks of… Read more »
You’re right. I think the warmth of some place farther south than New England would suit us better. But how are the politics in SC verging lately? That’s the other part of the northeast I am fleeing. I’m looking for an environment where my views aren’t anathema.
We’re still very deep-red Republican here, though at the local level in larger cities it’s pretty blue due to demographics. Because we have such a substantial minority of black Americans, some areas are fairly blue, or at least purple. US House District 6 is Jim Clyburn’s district, and for years he was our only congressional Democrat. In 2018, the Dems picked up US-1, but that was a fluke, I think: the GOP candidate, Katie Arrington, was in a bad car crash, which inhibited her ability to campaign, and she lost by only a few thousand votes. That’s the district with… Read more »
Well, I’m glad to hear you guys haven’t fallen off the cliff like New Hampshire and Maine. And thank you for your kind offer. I hope someday to take you up on your generosity. Maybe one day we can host you up in New England.