Message from the Mountain

I paused to appreciate the beauty of the old log teeming with new life. I thought of old outdated thoughts and realized that many of them may be hosting new ideas. There is still a lot of value in ol…

For several years now the Center has had the privilege of providing space for the Granite Back Country Alliance to establish and maintain four ski trails down the Mountain. I love to see the parking …

Nature has its paint brush out again and has created white pinecones to decorate the landscape. Besides being works of art, they carry seeds to plant the next generations of trees. They may also wind…

When I was growing up, I would visit my grandparents in the next town who lived in an older with an outhouse in the Barn which was as cold in the winter as outside. I have a lot of memories from my v…

When my grandson was little, he loved watching a movie about The Ice Age, and one day I took him over to the top of the Lupine Field when Mt. Washington was covered with snow. He pointed and said exc…

We have a couple of red berry bushes on the property probably planted by the birds. Their shiny green leaves last late into fall, and the berries last into the holiday season and make good decoration…

There are places on the land where the drill marks still remain from quarrying granite for foundations and walls a couple of hundred years ago. The settlers used star drills to gouge holes in the sto…

The Center’s property lines go right over the top of Chamberlain Ledge, and we have some pretty severe drop-offs on the back side. It is not easy to climb down, requiring a zigzag descent. Getting fr…

Scrying is a psychic way of receiving information by staring at an object and letting your eyes go out of focus. Some people use crystal balls, tea leaves or gazing at the clouds. Everyone has a type…

It is interesting how old land deeds defined the boundaries. They often used trees that have long since disappeared. Today GPS devices can make it easier to find and stay within the lines. People hav…

The mountainside is littered with pieces of granite in places where the settlers split large pieces to use for foundations and walls for cemeteries. The unusable pieces were just left, and I find a u…

On a recent walk I spotted an oak leaf on the trail and saw a small stone heart close by. I smiled and felt gratitude for always finding affirmations that I am surrounded with love.

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A couple of years ago, when we had logging done to the land, skidder trails were created to haul the trees to a central place for processing. Now we have an opportunity to use them to create new trai…

There are places in the old road that are worn down to bedrock from use and plowing. In fact, there are places on the mountain that must look like the way they were after the ice age. In life, when t…

The hemlock tree growing in the very thin topsoil covering the ledge at Stone Cutter’s Rest is literally hanging on by its roots trying to survive the storms that pass through the area. Fortunately f…

The time has changed back to Eastern Standard Time. That means it will be getting dark an hour earlier all winter. The body wants to slow down and eat and sleep more. It is the feeling of wanting to …

Here in the foothills and mountains of New Hampshire, November and part of December means hunting season for deer. When we opened the Center’s trails for hiking, we also created a wildlife safety are…

In late afternoon we took a picture of the ledge across the valley at a time when the sun shined a spotlight on it. I wondered what stories the ledge could tell of times when ancient shamans traveled…

Now that most of the leaves have fallen off the
 trees, they have covered the places where we walk in the woods and there is a crunching sound with every step.

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The pumpkin people are at work throughout the Valley, including our local rescue squad, and I recently watched two of them as they attempted to rescue a pumpkin cat stuck in a tree. Human people ofte…