healing | energising water

Same place, different sunset

I did it! The kind Michael suggested jumping in the cold Eastern Beach water to clear off tensions and worries. I was hesitant, as the sun was about to set shortly, but I rushed back to my room, changed clothes and walked down to the Eastern Beach semicircular boardwalk, which surrounds the swimming enclosure. I laid down a towel, performed a head stand, then took the steel staircase to the water. The extremely cold bay water reminded me of the Atlantic Ocean in the other hemisphere of the planet, namely Cohasset, Massachusetts. I was able to swimming probably no more than 25 meter, then I returned to the boardwalk. While I was drying off I experienced a calming positive energy and was also rewarded with a remarkable view of the green grass lit by the sun setting in an intense grey sky. At the northeast side of the sky a rainbow appeared. I regretted not bringing my phone/camera.

A 2200 meter walk and 24 meter swim

camminando | Monument Mountain

The highlight of my week has been a hike to Monument Mountain (Stockbridge, MA) the mountain celebrated by several artists and writers, including  Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville (1850). Our hike started heading north through the Hickey Trail, Squaw Peak trail with breathtaking views of Devil's Pulpit,  a free-standing pillar of stone. Our loop continued through Indian Monument trail. Thanks Jeanne!

  Views from Squaw Peak Trail

Devil's Pulpit

camminando | Wind Power in Massachusetts

Anticipating the hurricane I am organizing photos, from my summer walkabouts —which did not cover a large geographic area, although quite concentrated from a cultural standpoint.
Approaching the Mohawk trail, a quite interesting view in the Berkshires was a wind farm —seen here from Hancock Road.

And below an aerial view of the wind farm from http://www.bing.com/maps/

Excerpts from the conceptual multimedia project

“Axes Mundi: Perceptions and Understanding of Places as Intersections of Space, Time and Culture"

camminando | Water Power: the Mohawk Trail

The Mohawk Trail (Massachusetts Route 2) takes you through an harmonious human use of natural resources, which seems to coexist even in an industrial (or post industrial) land use.

The first detour from the Trail is a visit to the Natural Bridge, a spectacular natural geological formation, from Cambrian period of the Paleozoic Era site of a marble quarry until 1947. The "natural bridge" is a 550 million year old bedrock marble, carved into an arch by the force of glacial melt water over 13,000 years ago and spans over the Hudson Brook. Nathaniel Hawthorne, visited the site in 1838 and wrote about Hudson's Falls in An American Notebook "The cave makes a fresh impression on me every time I visit it ... so deep, so irregular, so gloomy, so stern." a spectacular natural geological formation, from Cambrian period of the Paleozoic Era site of a marble quarry until 1947.






The next encounter is Turners Falls, a nineteenth century industrial center. The village was founded in 1868 as a planned industrial community according to the vision of Alvah Crocker, to attract industry to the town by offering cheap hydropower that was made by the harnessing of the Connecticut River, through the construction of a dam and canal.

Industrial ruins in Turners Fall

One of the many unfortunately closed stores along the Mohawk Trail

Excerpts from the conceptual multimedia project

“Axes Mundi: Perceptions and Understanding of Places as Intersections of Space, Time and Culture"