Finding Ulysses

The Trumansburg Creek is feeling down from the highs of the spring melt, and human residents of the village seem to be in a similar mood.

Okay, frappuccino isn’t truly a mood, but it is, nonetheless, the sense of Trumansburg Creek that I got when I stopped by its banks on the way to downtown today. Cold, whipped up, a dirty murky color with chunks of chopped up ice swirling all through it, and a white foamy top at the base [...]

Water flowed into Trumansburg Creek for most of the day today from a big leak just outside the Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts.

Feeling sick of winter? Wish you could be out there planting vegetables? Here’s a little video glimpse of warmer times we knew last year. Cornell Cooperative Extension put together this short film profile of Trumansburg’s Sweet Land Farm, and posted it online a few days ago. Summer shares of vegetables from the CSA will be [...]

photograph of snow in the trees in Trumansburg, February 2011

A list of the courses offered by the Trumansburg Community Education Program for the Winter/Spring 2011 season includes two courses in Zumba, a dance-exercise routine that originated in Columbia.

How hot is it here in Trumansburg, today? We’re warmer by three degrees fahrenheit than Birmingham, Alabama. We’re four degrees hotter than Atlanta. We’re five degrees above Miami.

A mayapple, flower native to Ulysses.

I’m wondering what the climate memories of Trumansburg natives are, and how they’re living differently in warm years like this one has proven to be.

Last night as took a walk in the woods, I heard the sound of the spring peepers calling out for mates.