A Trip to the Late 19th Century

Monday, August 11, 2014

Sunday passed as you’d expect a Sunday in the country to pass:   We visited with new friends, talked of issues and looked out over the Catskill Mountains to the Hudson, sipping chardonnay.   The plan was to spend some time with new friends, an artist and his wife who is with the ACLU, at their summer home in Twilight Park, a collection of late 19th century summer cottages perched on the hills above the Kaaterskill Falls.  The link with a fuller story of Twilight Park:   http://wikimapia.org/5538743/Twilight-Park  The home we visited was built in 1898 and has had minimal changes to it since then.  With a view from the verandah down to the Hudson and up to the Catskill Mountains, it was a trip back in time for us:  Good conversation, good wine and interesting people.   We had planned to spend an hour there, and our visit rambled on to nearly two and a half.   

Our hosts in Twilight Park, Jane and Joe, and their other guests, Glenn and Silvia, were all New Yorkers, two of them artists.  We discussed politics, art, summer homes and our travels and friends.

Back at Andy and David’s we had wonderful summer bread and butter corn (white and yellow kernels, mixed on the cob) with local sausages and the end of the cheese and blueberry pie.   Our hosts are very much into True Blood  on HBO, which John enjoyed watching. 

Hummingbirds, by the way, are not mute.   They actually do sing, and make angry noises when fighting off other hummingbirds at the feeder in their territory.