Punkins III

Punkins III
Originally uploaded by PhoebeJ.

Drove up to Kent on Sunday with a friend and visited Averill Farms, an apple orchard. They had lots of pumpkins for sale.

The place was really hopping because of the great weather. The weather has been terrible all month. When at last the sun came out, all the leaf-peepers came roaring in with a vengance. Personally, I was delighted for all the business owners.

Gnarled Tree

Tree--Central Park
Originally uploaded by PhoebeJ.

Central Park on a drizzly day. The colors were very subdued. I found this gnarled tree. I've probably passed it 100 times since it's alongside the azalea pond, but this was the first time I noticed it. It really looks like something out of a fairy tale or Lord of the Rings. Perhaps it is an ent.

Or maybe squirrels live inside. Like this bad boy.



The Gill is a stream with many small waterfalls that runs through the Ramble in Central Park. Every waterway in the Park can be turned on and off by the Parks Department. There are no natural streams left. It's all artifice. Frederic Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux managed to make artifice beautiful.

The Sphinx

The Sphinx
Originally uploaded by PhoebeJ.

I ordered a cat tree for Sir Nicholas. I've wanted him to have a high perch for a long time, but my cheapness made me shop around. Found a good company on line and put in the order. They ship from Connecticut so I got the tree the next day.

Nick enjoyed the box the cat tree came in.



I put the thing together--mostly easy except for the hammock which after a struggle I managed to install. I'm bringing the power drill home and redoing it tomorrow because I don't like how it came out. But the verdict from Nicholas is that the cat tree rocks. He posed on the top in his Sphinx posture.

I also discovered a company called Katwallks that has a hysterical video of their product, a series of cat ramps that you hang on your walls, in action. But that's for another day!