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Hiking with sunshine, lollipops and rainbows

Whiteface Mountain is seen from the shore of Moose Pond between Bloomingdale and Saranac Lake last Friday. News photo — Justin A. Levine

I’m a hard-core Simpsons fan, and as such, my brain instinctively relates most things to a Simpsons episode. The weather lately has had me thinking about an episode where Homer and Police Chief Wiggum are in a car chase, and their theme music for the high-speed escapade is the Lesley Gore song “Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows.”

I have the first few lines memorized, and any time it’s sunny and warm (or I’m in a high speed chase), I can’t help but have them run through my head. It’s funny to me, and when I was out hiking this past weekend, the loop of “Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows. Everything that’s wonderful is what I feel when we’re together,” kept me smiling. As if the sunshine and lack of bugs weren’t enough.

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