Ranger

I came upon a ranger training a volunteer to cut invasive species. Sumac trees had vines trying to take them over, so they just clip them to thwart their attempted takeover. The reeds are invasive! It's about supporting the trees. I asked if they did the burn a few years back and she said you can’t do that in the city. 

Got a link for the stewardship program. And there's a super stewardship program.

I read the paque about Queens Valley Park and they talk about Kew Garden Hills being called Hopedale, and that Vleigh was the road to Brooklyn. Forest Hills was called Whitepot. 

Transcendentalism

 

My meditation view.

Transcendentalism was trying to shuck off restrictive Puritanical thinking gone off the rails. Too much clamping down leads to weirdness. As the beats extended the movement to hedonistic absurdity, it took a turn back into Buddhism. Not fusty Buddhism but the freedom loving Buddhism.

Spring

The days are longer and not just because we added an hour in the evening. As you go north or south from the equator the seasons are more exaggerated. 

Willow Lake is  made out Willow Creek, that leads to Flushing Bay, north western Long Island. Two highways bookmark the area, the Grand Central Parkway, and the Van Wyck Expressway. The subway rail yard is on one side and Jewel Avenue the other. On the other side of the highway is Forest Hills. On the other Kew Garden Hills.

 

Thoreau

From "Walking":

"My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several days together, I have not yet exhausted them. An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon. Two or three hours’ walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the king of Dahomey. There is in fact a sort of harmony discoverable between the capabilities of the landscape within a circle of ten miles’ radius, or the limits of an afternoon walk, and the threescore years and ten of human life. It will never become quite familiar to you."

Tidal?

Walking outside, I saw the waning moon still up. 

This lake drains into Flushing Bay, not sure how tidal the manmade "lake" is, but the water was lower today. Low tide is 8:04am and high tide is 1:43pm. So I was there near low tide. (source)