Peaceful day.. spent a good part of it out on a hike with our friend James.. We went up Shaker mountain behind his house in Huntington . First stop was James house.. which is something of a museum. he has TV sets placed up on poles in his back yard..
he has a Horseshoe crab collection.. !
The hike was more than 3 hours.. it was .. step in parts, wet in parts. but beautiful throughout . James had marked it well.. he showed us all the places he stops when he hikes through here multiple times a week . He had several weather stations like this one spread through the woods.
he also showed us four smartness he’d placed. james also has placed smartness for us all up and down the atlantic coast..
it was surprsingly warm today. but we did see some small patches of snow at the top
Hard to see here.. but at the top we looked over the lake. the whole valley was full of fog.. very cool looking
I thought this looked like a snake !
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Got home happy and tired to find out it was the first night of chanukah !.. 
nite all, nite sam
-me