I sit at the bay, looking towards the Green Mountains. There are seagulls all around, and the sunsets in teh background. There is still some ice on the distant Vermont shore, and the mountains are still covered with stow.

This is Plattsburgh, the area I so love. It is a place where I can get away from the realities of big city life, and work to refresh my mind. I go to college here in the fall, but somehow Plattsburgh is something more then school. It is a place where I go to get away.

There is a cold wind blowing in the background, reminding me that spring has just recently come to the North Country. The grass isn't green yet, but when it turns color it will be nothing short of spectular. There will be a time without the wind, where all can enjoy nature's grace without bundling on up.

It ain't the architecture of the people that make this area so beautiful. It is nature. Nature makes this area so beautiful, and offers so much to me and the rest as we sit away from the big city.

So as the sunset, hiding the Green Mountains in darkness, so goes another beautiful day in the North Country. I must go back down to the Albany to continue my life, working and making change happen in the dirty streets of Albany. I love being up here, but I know my stay must be temporary here for all the beauty to last.