NJ Turn Around
Well I'm back here in NJ for 4 days before returning to Wolfeboro for the month of September. I can't seem to leave NH and I want to see what it's like when the tourists aren't around.
I can't tell you how different NJ feels to me now. I came back feeling a LOT less stressed, but see how people around here get that way. Fast paced, impatient drivers, long lines in stores. No connection to nature or the natural world (except fear of hurricanes). Nothing to look at that calms the soul (except the ocean when the tourists go home in October). Just too many people... for me.
So from afar now, I remember the mountains. The Belknap and Ossipee ranges. Copple Crown and Mt. Shaw. I remember all the different colors they turn in different light. The moods of the lake. Sometimes a mirror of the sky with soft breezes moving across the water like some invisible breath. Or other times the steel gray turbulent waves that erupt from a vicious wind.
No sunset is the same and every one is worth seeing.
There are quiet places where you can be alone with just your dogs. Or you can go into town and know you will be greeted with a smile and wave.
These are just a few of the impressions that are with me now.
I look forward to discovering more.
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