Rock

The Mill Run is a path that starts at Newfield Street and travels past the Mill Pond.  It’s not nature to those who like to be helicoptered in; you can see the houses and back yards across the pond, which, itself, is created by an earthen damn.  The power company clear cuts below the electric cables on the other side. 

This rock used to stand in the path. It was easy to walk around, but the Park Department moved it, perhaps so they could get a vehicle as far as the Boy Scout Bridge, or maybe just because they had access to heavy equipment and they could.  For years it looked raw and slightly scarred like something bulldozed from a construction site.  I was pleased on my latest visit to see that it has settled into nature again. 

Climatically, we live in the northern forest, and nature tries to get back to forest whenever we’re not looking.  This old glacial bolder was only momentarily perturbed.  It remains itself.