Muggy evening walk in the Pine Bush 🦋

Muggy evening walk after attending an absolutely packed Guilderland Conservation Committee meeting… Nine board members and I was the only member of the public in attendance or for that matter giving testimony! Opposition was universal in other words to bulldozing the Pine Bush.

Breeze and dropping sun helps a lot with the muggiest of it all. Kind of brilliant sunset after a rather gray evening that was threatening rain. A bit buggy in places in the Pine Bush but it’s worth it. Won’t be long – really after summer vacation – when evenings aren’t nearly as bright with the decrease of daylight come August. Always happens so fast…. Summer is done before it begins.

Driving today was driving. A dump truck had rear ended a short school bus at a traffic light on the Delmar bypass. While cops were letting cars by it was slow. Interstate 90 also was congested and backed up – I ended up getting off at the State Office Campus and doing a bunch of loops to get back on Washington Avenue. Whatever I survived, maybe I got an insurance ding for braking too hard. At least they gave me a refund after returning those boys under shirts at Walmart. It’s fine. I’m just glad I don’t regularly have to commute by car. It’s what I avoid by living in the city and riding my mountain bike or taking the bus to work.

Being a Monday and Town Justice Court being open in Guilderland, there was an endless parade of beat up old cars and colored people going too and from court, learning their sentences in front of judge. Really cops enjoy picking on the poor and colored people, because they know they can extract the most wealth out of them. Black Lives Matter is such a woke slogan, because liberals are all for helping the blacks unless of course they move next door. Sit and watch town court, and you’ll understand how bigoted and awful government is. While the court was busy, I was only one at the Conservation Committee meeting, the only voice against yet another development in the Pine Bush, more houses covered with vinyl soon to be carted off to the growing mound of plastic next door in every city. The smell of methane from the garbage dump and roar of cars as the shift gears and move people quickly to their destination. My truck is getting a bit throaty, but it’s not that and it’s a good reason to haul it dumping grounds next year and get new. Because I’m not poor and I don’t want to be a target for the cops. It was bad enough that yesterday I rolled through a yellow light, and had a cop up my ass the last mile driving home. That or just he got the luck of getting behind me, and he was trying to hurry to get back to cop station, lest he pee his pants. Yes, I know that life well.

Driving was a bummer, the meeting a bust. But I got my thoughts on the record and I didn’t say anything to crazy or controversial. It’s been a beautiful walk this evening, I was so happy to finally gorge on wild blackberries. I’m not at all worried about eating up wildlife food even in an urban preserve like this because they are so numerous. Thousands live within a few miles of the preserve, yet few ever visit. Maybe that’s a good thing like so much of the wild country that I love.