Three Fall Walks in Ulster County

Testimonial Gateway Carriage Road, Mohonk Preserve

This fall seems to have come late, with the oaks now ascendant. In the past few days we raced out before clouds overtook the sun to visit three of our favorite walks in Ulster County, New York.

Enchantment

Central Park Conservatory Garden environs (Harlem Meer), Late October, 2020

Anatoly Lyadov, The Enchanted Lake (1909)

Goodbye to Tolerance

Denise Levertov’s poem, “Goodbye to Tolerance,” begins:

A Trip to Innisfree Garden, with Music by Eve Beglarian

Even Beglarian’s I am lost by streams II (2020)

Eve Beglarian, in “a book of days,” writes of this piece:

Landscaping for Privacy: May 30 in Eve Beglarian’s a book of days

OK, let’s drive, let’s tour the hydrangeas
And the lawns. What could be more suggestive
Than a grassy mattress?

—Linda Norton