A writer writes again.
This really is an adventure in the Finger Lakes!
My posts vanished with a key stroke last summer.
We found amazing partners in sustainability, wellness and education. We’re also so lucky to have a wonderful pup raising us!
Please read posts from our archives as we reinvent and re-create.
Thank you!
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Sharing Concerns and Joys Helps Us All
Nature feeds me. To run up a steep wooded trail and emerge high on a bluff overlooking an enormous inland sea, mere miles from my home, has been a great joy to me since I began high school. Listening to the waves crash in consistent rhythm and to watch the sun as it sets upon…
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We Love It, Therefore We Work For It
The Community Room at The Wolcott Public Library filled up with citizens on July 11, 2016 for a showing of Lake Ontario: A Quest for Hope, by local resident, Susan Peterson Gately. Ages ranged from six to seventy eight. Audience members listened attentively as the film explained numerous aspects of Lake Ontario and its…
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Mission EXXpedition Leads Simultaneous Great Lakes Events
Adventures in the Finger Lakes will be hosting an event in partnership with Mission EXXpedition at/or near Chimney Bluffs along Lake Ontario’s shore in Wayne County, NY on August 20, 2016. Participants will collect water samples for analysis of microplastics. Volunteers are also encouraged to clean beaches and shoreline. Mission EXXpedition is an organization with…
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Volunteers Clean Stream and Woods to “Embrace the Lake”
The Cayuga Lake Watershed Network and Adventures in the Finger Lakes co-sponsored a cleanup event on April 2, 2016 to kick off a month of “Embrace the Lake” events. Our goal was to remove trash from the designated stream and woods with hopes of restoring the ecosystem to a healthier condition. Volunteers from as far as…
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Adventures Aren’t Always Glamorous!
This adventure is going to start out ugly. Miles north of Taughannock Falls State Park on Rte. 89 in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, a littered roadside pull off area greets visitors. A welcome sight after many miles on this straight road through farm country, one finds all kinds of trash feet…
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Discovering New Paths, Roy H. Park Preserve
Though the state parks near Ithaca, NY are amazing, I’ve been seeking new vistas and paths. Recently, I visited the Roy H. Park Preserve in Dryden, NY, a Finger Lakes Land Trust Property. Connecting Yellow Barn and Hammond Hill State Forests with Cornell University Old 600 Natural Area, this preserve serves as a link in…
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