Cabin In The Catskills

The little cabin in the Catskills (see Hermitage and Building the Hermitage). The door is always inviting, but especially in winter when it's snowing and the woodstove is fired up and glowing. And then you step in, close the door, start boiling some water for tea, and dig out Red Pine's The Zen Works of Stonehouse: Poems and Tales of a 14th-Century Chinese Hermit. And fluff up the sleeping bag.

Hermitage

In the summer of 2006, I built a small cabin in the Catskill Mountains of New York. All made by hand (my hands). No power tools. This is what 6:07 AM looks like in October after you've crawled out of your sleeping bag and got the wood stove going.