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Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM

Double Vision, Great Blue Heron, Hoosic Reservoir, Cheshire MA, September 6, 2010
Double Vision, Great Blue Heron, Hoosic Reservoir, Cheshire MA, September 6, 2010

Seeing double

That's one heron you see there. For fun I stitched together two pictures 277 and 283 from a sequence I shot of this heron flying off into the misty morning.

Night camp

Site 7 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM

Sweet, Rich Hickory Milk

Hickory was another favorite. Rambling through the Southeast in the 1770s, the naturalist William Bartram observed Creek families storing a hundred bushels of hickory nuts at a time. "They pound them to pieces, and then cast them into boiling water, which, after passing through fine strainers, preserves the most oily part of the liquid" to make a thick milk, "as sweet as fresh cream, an ingredient in most of their cookery, especially hominy and corncakes." Years ago a friend and I were served hickory milk in rural Georgia by an eccentric backwoods artist named St. EOM who claimed Creek descent. Despite the unsanitary presentation, the milk was ambrosial - fragrantly nutty, delightfully heavy on the tongue, unlike anything I had encountered before.

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