Jean Zimmerman

Tag: Old Croton Aqueduct

  • I’m going to bring you to a secret place.

    The cardiologist told me I’d better get in better shape. So here I am speed walking along my favorite trail on a hot day in August. It’s the path called the Old Croton Aqueduct, now a state park, once upon a time the narrow north-south route above a forty-one mile water tunnel. It delivered 75…

  • A bent tree and a black butterfly

    figured prominently in my hike along the northern section of the Old Croton Aqueduct on a day so early in spring that only a few plants were peeping up green. Also peeping up reddish-brown with yellow streaks, in the case of skunk cabbage. One of my favorite plants, the skunk cabbage enjoys an interesting chemistry…

  • When I said my favorite color was brown

    one time, everybody laughed. In writing class, teachers use a prompt to get everybody’s creative juices flowing. I hiked the Old Croton Aqueduct trail today, using brown as a prompt. The familiar sandy light brown soil. Hadn’t been here for a while. The sound of the mid-afternoon breeze rustling the leaves, late summer insects’ buzz.…