civilized ku # 2598 ~ R&R

Post-surgical rest and recuperation ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen

ku # 1265-66 ~ post storm variants

Post storm sunset/fog ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Post storm sunset/fog # 2 ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen

ku # 1263-64 / civilized ku # 2597 - recent goings on, here and there

Surgical Waiting Room ~ Plattsburgh, NY • click to embiggen
Tree climbing visitors ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK• click to embiggen
Weird cloud display ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK• click to embiggenSpent Monday AM in the CVPH Surgical Waiting Room while the wife had her female-parts-removal surgery (scheduled). Taking her back to Rist Camp for rest and recuperation after her discharge this AM (Tuesday).

Had visitors to Rist Camp over the past weekend. More visitors are on the way.

There was a strange / weird cloud thing late Saturday afternoon. Never saw anything quite like before.

ku # 1261-62 / civilized ku # 2593-96 ~ Great Room, pt.2

Took a 10 mile walk into the Forest Preserve yesterday to visit Camp Santanoni, a long abandoned - 40+ years ago - Adirondack Great Camp.

Lest you think that the first (top) picture of one of the camp's 45 structures is the camp's is main lodge, I should point out that picture is of the gatehouse entrance to the 12,000 acre Santanoni Perserve (as the camp was known). The main lodge - 5 miles from the gatehouse - has a 16,000 sq. ft. roof, 5,000 of which cover a promenade of interconnecting porches.

I'll add captions to the pictures and more info about the camp (and why it was abandoned) later today. In the meantime, check out the fireplace in Camp Santanoni's Great Room.

ku # 1259-60 ~ weather

Rainbow over Blue Mountain ~ Blue Mountain Lake, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Storm clouds ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenAt times, the weather here is majestic (warm and fuzzy). Other times, it is cool and stormy. Either way, it's all part of life and it's best when you go with the flow.

ku # 1257-58 ~ pre-dinner appetizer appetizer

Rain + rainbow + Hobbit Light ~ near Long Lake, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Sunset ~ Blue Mountain Lake, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenThe wife and I left Rist Camp Sunday evening, during a heavy rain storm, for a drive for dinner at Blue Mountain Lake. About 2 miles outside of Long Lake in a light rain the sky cleared along the horizon. A mile or so later we came upon the scene of the top picture in this entry.

The rainbow was rather faint but as we continued on toward Blue Mountain Lake, it became quite vivid with a faint double rainbow. I stopped along the road at various locations to make a few pictures of the rainbow. Arriving at Blue Mountain Lake, the clouds had turned crimson red against a vivid blue sky.

The drive was a wonderful visual appetizer / treat which set the tone for equally enjoyable dinner.

ku # 1254-56 ~ the ever changing view

The view # 1 / morning mist/fog ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
The view # 2 / late day overcast ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
The view # 3 / rain ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenThe view from the Rist camp porch is like a television series which has a new episode every night, or, in some cases, two episodes a day.

There is an Adirondack saying which states, "If you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes and it will change." That saying has some actual truth - the weather here, not unlike many other mountain regions, is subject to rapid changes. To date, during our stay at Rist Camp we have not experienced any sudden unexpected weather change events. However, day-to-day, there have been some dramatic changes in the weather.

Each change brings with it an opportunity to make pictures of the same scene in vastly different weather moods. That's one of the things I really like about where we live.

civilized # 2592 ~ the Great Room

The Great Room ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenNow that I've broken out of the 20mm box, I am able to make pictures which represent a greater swath of a given referent. In this case, the referent is the Great Room at Rist Camp.

In the Adirondack camp tradition, the Great Room nomenclature refers to the main room of a camp which, in the case of the Great Camps, is truly great indeed. Rooms into which the entire Rist Camp would easily be accommodated, in some examples 2 side-by-side Rist Camps could be accommodated with room to spare.

By those standards, the Rist Camp Great Room is rather modest but, as is d'riguer in most Adirondack camps, there is an impressive fireplace which is the centerpiece of the room.