road – Decaseconds

House on the Frozen Lake

2017-Dec-292017-Dec-29 adohertyhLeave a comment

The northeastern US has been gripped by severe and hardened cold. Consider, for a moment, how much colder 20 ºF feels than 60 ºF. Imagine that difference projected past its original low point, out the other side to -20 ºF. After past winter temperatures like these, I can attest that the return to “normal” winter really does feel 40 ºF warmer. The rivers and lakes are freezing. The snow is a dry powder, dozens of degrees below its melting point. A warm home above the frozen waters sounds pretty inviting.

Finally Green

2016-Jun-202016-Jun-20 adohertyhLeave a comment

Summer is here! Chlorophyll-generation reactions abound in leaf and stem; the summer solstice is grand. In a countryside that seems forbidding during the winter months, warm weather changes the attitude of the land. Get out and explore!

Road in the Hillside

2016-Apr-13 adohertyhLeave a comment

This highway in the hillside makes the mountain look rather smug, I think. This is the Han Solo of rocky formations.

Ice World I

2016-Mar-11 adohertyh3 Comments

Even at the end of this winter-that-wasn’t, the North Country wouldn’t let us get away without gorgeous glaze ice and snow-packed roads. Is any day crisper than the one after an epic storm?

Road Before the Snow

2016-Feb-222016-Feb-22 adohertyh3 Comments

Ice and snow and real winter have locked down the countryside, but I still have the photographic evidence of our ultra-mild, el-Niño-powered January.

North Country Gateway

2016-Feb-12 adohertyh7 Comments

Away from the village centers, the North Country is frozen at an odd point in development. The original farms of early settlers haven’t been completely removed, but not much development has continued past that point. Trailers were installed by the sides of hot-mix roads and everything stopped there. I’m fascinated to think what this area must have been like during the late 1940s—population returning as the nation demobilized, and those people changing things in the North Country. Things don’t seem to change as much now.

Finally Winter

2016-Jan-01 adohertyh3 Comments

The New Year is here, and real winter has arrived along with it! Snow flies through the air and ice clings to the branches and sticks of the North Country.