Why I find it hard to find a home in the Albany-area
I have shelter at home – a drafty decrepit apartment. Until the landlord removed the mail box for construction, I had a place where I even got my mail. But it’s an interim place, even if interim has lasted longer than I ever expected it would be.
But when I spend my weekends in the wilderness – be it Rennselaerville State Forest, the Green Mountains or the Adirondacks – it’s hard to go back to Albany and find anything for any price that looks like a home to me. Vinyl siding and drywall provide shelter but in my mind not a home.
I want that cabin in the woods in a freer state with low taxes, good gun laws and few restrictions on open burning where pot is legal to smoke and grow yourself. A rural place with hills and forests but also agriculture. Small towns, where the pollution and crime and consumeristic culture are far away.
Evening, sitting on the rock looking at the fading skies
Light Pollution USA March 2024
Pitch Pine Area
Pitch pines above with scrub oaks below. Reminds one a lot of the Albany Pine Bush.
Taken on Sunday September 29, 2019 at Louise Kerr Wildlife Management Area.