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Archive for January, 2008

No more photos until I am home. My computer is no longer charged, the electrical cord is not working. But in 4 days I will be home and I must admit I am beginning to look forward to taking a shower.
I had big excitement on Thursday. Russ, a flight instructor who I met at [...]

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Today, my exhibition is being installed at Pfizer’s headquarters’ on 42nd street in Manhattan. The Essence of Nature’s Inspiration:  Selected Works on Paper by Hilary Lorenz consists of twenty-eight drawings and prints ranging in size from 11” x 14” to 50” x 80” and will be up for the next six months. The description and [...]

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My 14-mile run turned into 17 miles. I get carried away with exploring different areas of Ptown and end up running or hiking much longer than planned. After my 1.5 mile sand walk warm-up from the shack to the road, I ran 4 miles of the bike trail to Herring Cove Beach, then down to [...]

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At 9:30 Saturday morning I waved goodbye to Nancy from the airport parking lot. She drove here on Thursday from her home in the Adirondacks, 445 miles to go hiking on the shore. We met a couple years ago climbing the eastern high peaks of the Adirondacks and have gone on several backpacks since. She [...]

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The Joy of Running on the Cape’s sand dunes.
I worry I am not training properly or training enough in anticipation the beginning of racing season with New York Road Runners in February or for the Boston Marathon in April.  Last November I ran my first marathon, the NYC Marathon with a time of 3:49:08 after [...]

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Here is my coral dog drawing I did yesterday. I really miss my real dog, Conrad. He would love the beach.
The longer I am here, the less I want to return to New York. The quaintness of hauling wood every morning has turned into one of the necessities that I look forward to. I [...]

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Here is a nice little photo of me rebuilding the steps.
I found the solution to the cold, well two exactly.  The first is, if it is not too windy run, a lot.  With three layers of clothes, a balaclava and a hat,  glove liners and mittens I went to a two hour and fifteen minute [...]

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I pull the laptop out from my sleeping bag. I have my laptop, satellite terminal, phone, and camera in the sleeping bag with me so that they do not freeze. It is warmer in my shack from this morning, almost 38 degrees after hours of burning wood, but there are only two and a half [...]

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Frozen Day – Bed of Snow

Remember I am doing this for fun, and it is very fun. I knew it would get very cold today, perhaps below zero so I closed off the upstairs bedroom, sealed off the kitchen and confined myself to the 8’ x 10’ living room where the wood stove is. Just for fun I set the [...]

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My fingers are freezing on this cold rainy morning, I can only typing a little bit. The high I heard will be 26, now I hear 15. Yesterday it rained non stop and I could not go running, that is one less day to complete 1000 miles this year; an idea put in [...]

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