I guess you could call it the Grey Trail now.

See the yellow trail of trees?

I’d been hearing about The Yellow Trail for a few weeks. What I had thought was just a trail in the Freedman woods (like the Red or the Blue or the Caution Tape trails) is actually not just any other trail. Oh, no. No, no. It is thus named for a beautiful row of trees which turn vivid yellow at the same time. It’s pretty remarkable.

I naively thought that this was a brilliant coincidence and that G-d was just bestowing an extra blessing on Freedman. But, it’s not just something random and remarkable. It’s something totally science-y and cool, actually. And can still be a gift from G-d, if you choose to feel that way.

Thanks to Andrew in the main office, I know that these trees are Big-Toothed Aspens.

They reproduce with suckers that actually create clones of the parent tree. Therefore, that is actually a string of the “same” tree over and over. And that is why they all turn the same vivid yellow at the same time! Pretty frackin’ cool, yeah?

Enjoy some more pics, won’t you?

I also got to visit Jill P who is pregnant with twins. Yay! And I got to meet her absolutely adorable little pup, Sunny. Cuuuute! Aw, I miss having a pet so much.

NYC will never be home to me like Boston and Cambridge area, but it is growing on me. It’s always fun and interesting to be there. It’s also pretty overwhelming. It’s a bit too “much” for me — too much of anything and everything.

But this weekend was fun. And now I’m back at Freedman, which I love, even if the kitchen is a hot mess ball of stress lately.

Teva kids week 4 here we come…. grilled cheese and tomato soup Monday lunch for the fourth week in a row….

On another note, this week I am going to start writing for The Jew and the Carrot — Hazon’s blog. I have some exciting first post ideas, but if you have any Jews and food tips that you want to send my way, please feel free!

xoxo

I like selling things, especially things that I believe in. And as a bonus, I got to eat some delicious lacto-fermented full-sour pickles, saurkraut, and firekraut; blueberry jam, green schug, pickled jalapenos, chevre, goat feta, and goat gurt. (Don’t ask about my veganism right now, thankyoumuchly.)

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Anyway, since I was already in the WP, I stayed around to hang out with H from this summer, whose family lives right near there. We took a trip to the nearby cute town of Rye. They have this awesome new vegan restaurant! It’s take-out style, but they have a few tables. I was really disapointed in the amount of plastic they use. They don’t have ANY eat-in materials. SUPER lame. I got a mix of prepared salad bar items and some carrot-ginger soup. On the way out, I got a smoothie. So in all, I used a plastic salad container, plastic fork and spoon, plastic tupperware set for the soup, plastic cup and bubble top and straw for the smoothie. Boooo….. I need to invest in a reusable fork and spoon set from the Isabella Freedman bookstore right away so I can at least prevent SOME of today’s lunch plastic consumption travesty.

That all being said, lunch was A-MA-ZING. Yum!

Here are some pictures so you get the idea of this place:

our food

Hillz and food

fruits, veggies, olive oil, and delish vegan, raw treats!

p.s. I also got a vegan dark chocolate coconut truffle. Heaven!

p.p.s. The town has an amazing consignment shop with super cute items that aren’t unreasonable! Go, Rye!

it’s much less severe and lasts a short time, but man, these veggies are dangerous!

I’ll be ready in a month or so… and I’ll be happy if it’s thick sticking snow for playing in. Mir has an extra pair of snow shoes (!) and we are going to have so much fun.

But, jeez, Mother Nature / G-d / Global Warming: please hold off a little while longer. Say, til after Thanksgiving.

Thanks, xoxo

Laura

snow on kale outside our apt

snowfall at the ‘burbs