August 02, 2006
Upstate - now with improved Waterfalls
filed under: Pictures
While I'm nursing my current impractical obsession with getting us a weekend place upstate (always a sensible idea on one income with one spouse in grad school!), we've been using EST's Lexington Center as a weekend getaway. This time we took the 1-mile hike from the end of Spruceton Road (in the idyllic Spruceton Valley, a few miles south of Lexington) to Diamond Notch Falls. It was Max's first official hike, and he even walked part of the stone-studded trail himself, watching the ground with intense concentration and holding tightly to my hand.
The waterfall itself was really beautiful, if only moderately-watered at this point in the mid-summer. It was clear from secondary grooves that there is often a much bigger cataract there. We took a dip in the icy pool at the bottom of the falls, which was so astonishingly cold that we could still feel it hours later - a nice touch on one of the hottest days of the year.
The whole photoset is here.
i want to drink that place
Posted by: perj at August 3, 2006 09:23 AMSeriously.
Posted by: rjt at August 3, 2006 10:31 AMStunning.
Posted by: Mama San at August 7, 2006 10:16 AMlanguid
vituperative
Posted by: rjt at August 7, 2006 05:17 PMi was gonna add vituperative, weird, huh? how about
limpid
I wasn't really gonna add vituperative, but I think I heard it on a rerun of West Wing on Bravo. CJ says something snotty to Danny and he says "well that's vituperative for 10 in the morning." Had to go look it up.
Splishy.
Plangent, sussurus (sp?),glippygloppygloopy.
Posted by: Procrastipop at August 26, 2006 05:44 PMPlangent! Excellent!
(and congrats to Procrastipop on probably is first ever blog comment post...)
Posted by: rjt at August 27, 2006 02:46 PM