The calender is a remarkable thing. It seems like things will never come to an end, until they come to an end. You climb and climb, and the hill always seems the steepest, until you reach the top, and then you realize your at the top, and rest of the way, you’ll be coasting down hill.

It seemed like it would be forever until summer finally broke, but then it finally did. Then summer seemed endless, for such a precious short time, before succumbing to Labor Day, and then eventually the cooler weather of fall. Before you know, the leaves will fall, and winter will creep on. November will come and go, and Christmas will fade into 2014.

The endless cold season will return until April, then in May spring will break, and by June it will be summer — even in the Adirondacks. And we will just continue to go around once again.

It will, in the words of Phil Ochs just be just part of the race around the stars.