Lately I’ve not made up a lot of maps. I’ve been busy, doing a lot of travel and camping, and the Save the Pine Bush volunteer volunteer work has been consuming a lot of my time. Plus the DEC has not released any new data lately, so my opportunity to make new maps lately has been limited.

Once winter comes I’ll be home a lot more, although who knows I’ll probably be wasting my time watching videos on the excerise bike about off-grid living and farming as that’s the way lately I like to past the time lately. I don’t own a television but I like to download videos at the library and watch how real people make a life out in the country. I cab dream of a better life.

I could do maps of other states but that gets difficult as it requires a completely different data set with separate style files to make it work. Plus it’s challenging to make maps up of areas I do not know, and many of the other states already have better maps than New York.

Lately too I’ve been doing more essay writing, as I like to jot down my thoughts and share them. I feel like the commercial media isn’t really doing a good job explaining the world I live in or how I see things. Maybe my views aren’t widely read or shared but I like sharing them.