VII.I Independence Day.
Park across from Saranac Lake Hospital
I had planned on trickling into the blog the trip about four days behind to give me time to up load photos, scan images, write. It was working fairly well until everything was turned upside down last week.
I was in Albany visiting Beth bustling around and about from different shop to restaurant excited about her expected nuptials and enjoying NY’s capital when I received a phone call from my Mother. A few hours later I had to drop everything and drive to Saranac Lake to meet my parents and brother. In respect of my brothers privacy I will only publically say he was rushed to the ICU last week and after close to a weeks stay he was released from the Saranac hospital in good spirits and refusing to leave the Adirondacks (for those of you who know my brother and have not received the barrage of emails from my Mother and Aunts the cancer is NOT back). When I left him two days ago he was ready to get back to work and trekking around Massawepie keeping things in order.
As for my time in the Adirondacks I was not prepared or expecting a few days stay in a small cabin forty five minutes from any town in the middle of the biggest forest preserve in the country. At the time that I received my Mothers phone call I had already driven in a week 1/6 of the average mileage an American puts on there car in a year. I had only one pair of nicely kept jeans and two pairs of very inappropriate shoes so after a night of wadding through ankle deep mud and wet knee high ferns I stopped in Lake Placid to look for shoes and socks. In better circumstances I think the trip would have been quite pleasant but due to the stress of Ricky’s sudden onset illness and my lack of preparation it took a day or two for me to really appreciate the scenery. The Adirondacks are only a few shades of green and blue this time of year and in the rush I started to get nauseated by the endless envelope of green that ran into bright blue lakes and light blue sky. As things are calming down already I am starting to feel much better about the time I am spending in upstate.
Tomorrow I’ll start posting the Polaroid’s, I’m thinking maybe I’ll start posting a Polaroid a day until I run out of film.
