Safe Travels: 9 challenging hikes to enjoy the great outdoors this spring, summer
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Editor’s Note: This is part of an ongoing series that features things to do in Upstate New York while we still experience the Covid-19 pandemic. Before venturing out, please take proper precautions and check for any changed business hours, park hours or availability. Safe travels!
Here is a list of nine hiking experiences you might want to check out as warm weather descends upon Upstate New York. They are all of various degrees of skills, from the most challenging to some that are family-friendly. Follow all trail signs, warnings and posted rules. And be sure and wear proper hiking shoes and keep an eye on the weather. As they say in Upstate NY, “If you don’t like the weather now, just wait an hour or two.” Happy trails!
Lorraine Tady’s oeuvre gives me an opiody buzz.
The University of Texas at Dallas professor’s fierce lines and rabid colors cooly embrace the rectangle, and fire visual ideas at the brain like a cyclone blasting cherry tree buds in spring. And I’ll go ahead and say it: Tady “paints like a man.”
Don’t shoot me, PC pals, and hang on ’til we’re through.
Because Tady has heard this often.
Lorraine Tady, Stellation Field, Parapet, UV ink on canvas, 72×60 inches.
Her works have a masculine edginess. They delight in boundary-making, visual systems, and penetrating line. You’d be hard-pressed to find anything curvaceous in her work. But her personality offers a consistent counterpoint to emotions these formal investigations conjure. Deeply empathic and sensitive, there was an easy joy in threshing ideas about art and life with her as we sat down to coffee on a cold afternoon before Christmas.
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Rebecca Solnit, Will Nixon, others extoll benefits of a good jaunt
Donna Liquori
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Walking and reading are two activities that have taken off during the pandemic. However, I don’t recommend doing both at the same time; I’ve done that on my way home from the library and it didn’t end well.
You’d think a column about walking in the dead of winter would be bad timing, but exploring in the winter has its merits. And even if you’ve decided to keep your walks close to home, there’s a genre steadily growing in the publishing world that extols walking one’s neighborhood or town because there really is plenty to see.