{"id":3296,"date":"2022-02-28T07:24:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T12:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2022-02-28T15:33:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T20:33:39","slug":"altered-horizons-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-41\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 41"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the middle of the vast woods at Connecticut Hill, New York\u2019s largest wildlife management area, a horrible squawking-beeping made me jump. My cell phone, usually useless there, was suddenly lit up and alive.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEmergency Alert. Snow Squall Warning until 10:45 AM EST. Sudden Whiteouts. Icy Roads. Slow Down!\u201d I read aloud from the screen where a yellow triangle with an exclamation point was prominently displayed. I looked up at my hiking buddy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s turn around,\u201d she said, and we turned and bolted back out the way we\u2019d come. Even my frail arthritic dog hightailed it over the icy trails with urgency as, very quickly, the snow started falling. In our haste to be out of there, I didn\u2019t stop to photograph the heavy sky, the barely visible trail, the snowflakes coming down, first as minute dust-like particles and then growing bigger and faster. And more dense. Later, safely at home, in Photoshop I pasted together images of tumbling rocks and foamy residue from a sandy beach to remember the adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Altered Horizons 41<\/p>\n

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In the middle of the vast woods at Connecticut Hill, New York’s largest wildlife management area, a horrible squawking-beeping made me jump. My cell phone, usually useless there, was suddenly lit up and alive. “Emergency Alert. Snow Squall Warning until 10:45 AM EST. Sudden Whiteouts. Icy Roads. Slow Down!” I read aloud from the screen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[2368,705,2289,2297,2351,2270],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-altered-horizons-41","tag-dealing-with-depression","tag-fabricated-landscape","tag-photoshop-for-healing","tag-therapeutic-photography","tag-upended-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t