Article & Photos by Willow Baum
EXPLORING NATURE IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD
T
ime is precious and with self-quarantine imposed on everyone in the County, I suddenly had reason to go outside every single day to work, run or walk. An impetus to reorient in the constancy of the natural world. I love being outdoors in western
Sullivan County, except in mid-winter my natural habitat is usually cozy near the woodstove and working on cerebral projects. Lost in thought some days I even forget to look out a window. That was before the world shifted so suddenly and dramatically. Jeffersonville Journal ‑ 46
I made a game of going outside by remembering a scene from the 1995 film Smoke. Harvey Keitel plays a Brooklyn cigar shop owner. Every day “rain or shine, sleet or snow” at 8:00 o’clock in the morning he fastens his 35 mm to a tripod outside his shop and snaps
