forever wild
June 2, 2024 3:54 AM   Subscribe

No scrim now, just the fields, the lake, the peaks. When a double rainbow suddenly appeared, it was almost too much—a Disney overdose of glory. But then a rainbow pillar rose straight into the southern sky, and east of that a vaporous twin appeared, and then a kind of rainbow cloud to the north. Soon seven rainbows at once. Then the sun reached just the right angle so that the mist whipping up the face of the peak flashed into clouds of color as it washed over me: a rose cloud, a cloud of green. And always behind it the same line of lake, the same jag of mountain. All at once it struck me, struck me hard, that this was one of those few scenes I would replay in my mind when I someday lay dying. [Bill McKibben; gBooks: lake link]

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For those who aren't familiar, NYS DEC Rangers that work in the high peaks of the Adirondacks are some of the baddest assed public servants in the country, in New York's Adirondacks - there's even a painting at Camp Topridge depicting Crow and Thomas sitting on the patio smoking cigars along with three other guests - among them, Federalist Society leader Leonard Leo, long suspected of being behind the attempt to shift the Supreme Court Society towards the right, "a room without a roof" = happy, One of these days, a program will see New York as more than New York City, was just going to post something about this but I was checking with cortex about whether it's a double, ...Clear air pooling south from Canada opened views to the distant Adirondacks as well as deep into Quebec and all our surrounding states
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