The Outblog blog, No. 120 for the week starting June 2, 2008.
Monday
Walk Down By Normanskill Farm; M-H Land Trust Properties
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Individual looks at myself and how I'm changing
Transit looks at the changing ways we get around.
Truck gives you stories and trips in my Ford Ranger.
Walk Down By Normanskill Farm; M-H Land Trust Properties. This evening I went for a delightful little walk down by the Normanskill Creek along both banks. It was nice to see these little hidden sections of the natural world, basically hidden to all of Elsemere and Albany above.
It was quite remarkable walking through the woods—it's not some amazing wild place, but still buffered, hidden, and truly beautiful (at least on the southern bank on the Mohawk-Hudson Land Conservancy Property).
The city's Normanskill Farm on the other hand was confusing, and had way too many signs, that didn't really clearly demark where the trails where or how to go where you wanted to go—just a lot of forbidding "No Civilians", "Do Not Enter", "If You Proceed You Will Be Arrested", with the trail poorly marked.
I was able to figure out where the trail ultimately went by following some people, and finding the kiosk with a darkly painted map of the trail. It didn't look too impressive, although it was nice walking along the bank. I do resent being called a civilian though—I'm not on a military base, I'm try to walk on a trail in a park.
I understand that on the Normanskill Farm they have legitimate farming tasks to do, and they have to protect the city's police horses and cainine unit. Regardless, they could just mark the trails better, and make the No Tresspassing signs clearer, without calling people like myself "civilians". P'Link
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