Short-Sighted Connecticut Doubles Park Fees

I live in a town along the beautiful Farmington River, and just about every summer, people drown in it. Sometimes I’m out walking on the rail trail along the river and I see families with children playing in the  river currents and I worry that they’ll be next.

So why don’t those people go to state parks, where lifeguards watch the ponds and lakes?

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Carrot Portends Trip To Southwest

One of the underrated benefits of travel is that you become familiar enough with distant landmarks and landscapes to recognize them when they are reproduced in oddly shaped vegetables.

Behold: my saguaro carrot!

Had I not visited the Saguaro National Park in Tucson to see the vast forests of branching cacti, I might not have recognized the shape of this carrot.

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