June 14, 2009 – Drove to the heart of the Adirondacks today with Maria to the Adirondack Museum to look at quilts and art and drive into the heart of this still wild and eerie country. Izzy and I have made a number of hospice visits to the Adirondacks, and it is like entering an other space, lovely, remote, unsettling, poor.
  I plan to set part of my second novel in the Adirondacks, and so I am looking for places to stay for a month or so in the winter, to get a better feel for the place. It makes my farm and town seem like New York City.
  It is a beautiful drive, and it was good to get back to the farm. Some neighbors came by, and it was good to see them. Tomorrow, I am finishing a second children’s book draft and returning to work on my novel, still untitled. I am thinking of visiting Santa Fe in November, after the book tour.