A brook, pond, river or mighty ocean can seem to be worth its gallonage in gold.
With its brook, pond, picnic areas and trails, Page Park has, since it was donated to the city in 1933, lived up to Dewitt Page's original deed of gift: "to be used wholly for park and playground, and to be open to the public".
Kaitlyn Crabbe, 11, was fishing for sunfish and catfish last week at Brooks Pond in Clove Lakes Park in Staten Island when she hooked into something ferocious.
Quite another is my ongoing intimacy with the brook, the pond, the swamp and the adjoining salt marsh.
The Yosian-Plankton Sociespeciallypecinterestedrested in brook and pond life; the Bx. Park Yosian Club is interested in Bronx Park; the Yosian Golden Rule Club is for "gentle, friendly, people over 35 years old".
There was Engetsu, its arch covered with moss and jutting oak and pine trees; craggy Mount Seppiko and gentle Mount Takane; the striated cliffs of Sandanbeki; the private beach at the Seto Laboratory; a waterfall; a brook; a pond; and the cliffside forests that abut the city, so dense and black that the trees seem to be secreting darkness.
Tropical fishing was new to me, I told him, but I had once hiked 21 miles to fish a brook trout pond in Maine (but did not find it) and often stayed up all night to fish for striped bass in my native New England.
For a couple of decades after World War II, I was obsessed with locating remote brook trout ponds in northern New England.
Their son and their daughter do not want the course, so Violette is selling his 100-acre, par-72 Capital City Golf Course (and an easy nine-hole executive course), where deer cross the fairways, and a brook and ponds are favorite hangouts for muskrats, ermines, minks, frogs and weasels.
Bluebell woods, babbling brooks, tiny ponds, found through twisting, made-up lanes that appeared out of nowhere through the oaks.
Reports by the commission's staff say that sediment and mud from the site clogged nearby brooks and ponds on Redding Road.
