tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1995661254136001722024-02-20T20:14:52.463-05:00Saunterings: Photo-essays exploring nature's truths and beauty.RDS: "With familiarity the profound becomes mundane.
With passion the mundane becomes profound."......
Saul Bellow :"
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." ......MORE PHOTOS @ saunterings.comRDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08624481893223331272noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199566125413600172.post-33454718654513929792013-12-13T10:30:00.001-05:002013-12-13T10:30:29.278-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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witch hazel leaves masking their small but fragrant blooms. So sad the
glory of season’s last blooming, unlike the first blossoms of spring, is
lost among the dying.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Cherry trees and nut trees, walnut, hickory,
butternut also glow yellow in my morning sun, but this year many ash are
succumbing to a new borer and next spring will not leaf out. Each
breath of wind brings down more sere, brown and lifeless leaves from my
ash. Its shade on my deck will be sorely missed come summer next but
even worse the death of so many forest ash, for many years the woods will
be scarred by their loss. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Seems but yesterday the white pine began to brown older needles in
response to dark’s daily lengthening. Around the equinoxes, vernal or
autumnal, the day’s duration changes most rapidly. In summer and winter,
the solstices the changes are the slowest. Soon a light brown mulch of
needles will cover bare beneath the trees and tinge only lightly brown
the green grass. </span><br />
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sun, as distant green glows bright from between shadowed boles and evergreens.
When light is cascaded throughout it’s way distance separates. There is a
near, there is a far.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Now clouds have enveloped, flattened. Far is lost
as near is clear. Gone the special distant morning dear. Smaller my
world is to me! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">As I look out the window the rhododendron blooms,
heat shortened, but lovely still. So cold in winter it’s look, now
proclaiming it is late spring. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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spring thunder storms develop later. Just now a slight breeze and a
blizzard of cherry blossom petals snowed upon me. Another phase of
spring passing as cherry and wild pear blossom shed white, their time
for bloom is almost done. Next to bless with beauty will <span style="font-size: large;">be</span> the many apple
and crab apple trees with some white and and many shades of pink and red.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">
Down in the former greenhouse gardens forsythia and magnolia trees,
both white and purple, continue to bloom. The white star <span style="font-size: large;">m</span>agnolia about done, the
purple, a variety called "<span style="font-size: large;">Betty" has</span> just begun. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This spring has been good, fairly dry, quite sunny
and not too hot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Mid-April the sun is warm, a slight drift from the north renders cool the shade. Better a cool dry April with little mud and not excessive heat. Spring last year, like the winter, never was, from freeze to summer in March and then very damaging frosty nights late April when all was too advanced. With early leafing and flowering, so different was the sun, much lower on the horizon, when spring was quickly sprung. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /> Today the first bud break of spring, wild rose and honeysuckle leaves. Other woody buds are swelling, but these show true color and begin to mist the woods with green and tinge red. Some winter rosettes of perennial plants color a bit earlier, even at first melt of snow, but no new growth perceived on most yet. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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The white pines backlit in the morning sun glisten, shimmer as dew-bedecked, white against ever greening needles. At certain times and light the white in white pine is well deserved. At other periods the needles seem as black more than green. Of late the needles responding to our warm March are sweet spring green, greening with the grass of lawn. Needles seem more “open” now, not pressed against their twigs as in colder times and so the shadows cast upon the lawn and in the woods are denser.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>The crows cawed quite a stir this morning as the alarm was sent out that a hawk was near. Against the blue, black crows rule and off was sent the hawk, out-numbered and out cawed. Noise and numbers won the day, but soon the crows will get their comeuppance as more migrant birds arrive.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Once, years ago I remember seeing, late in the spring, a crow harassing a hawk while being harassed by a kingbird, who in turn was being harassed by a smaller bird. Life can be unpleasant in the peaceable kingdom when survival is at stake.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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For as a ray of golden sun penetrates the newly opened autumn canopy, that special ray seems meant for me. Meant for me to see, to know and attest to its glory. Nowhere rays, nowhere in particular, each becomes within when I am about. We all have our special rays shining only unto ourselves, enlightening the special we each are. Sometimes to be shared, sometimes best to be kept within, for others see not as you and may not understand.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"">JAN. 6, 2012 </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"">JAN. 12, 2012<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>as sometimes I do not understand. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Winter chill has been rare and even now the ground is soft, springy even. Although the morrow will bring a change and near zero may be on the week-end. Two falls ago my creek was almost a stranger to me so seldom had I visited. With heavy snows and ice storms for several years building up debris by knocking down trees and branches, the stream had become an impassable mess. Last winter and spring heavy water flow had jammed the stream bed with logs and branches, rocks and mud and leaves. Instead of flowing over bed rock it flowed over this debris. Near the log jam itself the water flowed at a level almost four feet above the bedrock. <span style="mso-tab-count:2"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>I had wanted to take photos of the area but it was not pleasant looking, so throughout the summer each visit was a working vacation. I moved branches and tree boles, rocks and mud, especially after each rain. Surprisingly the water channels I opened up widened and slowly the mud and leaves and small stones “floated” away. While it sounds like a lot of work, the water and rains did the most, I merely guided and encouraged. It is truly amazing how much stuff passes through this small ravine in the course of a year and yet superficially it still looks the same. I would guess the debris behind the log jam was four feet at the highest and tapered to bedrock at the first water fall sixty feet up stream. Not all was cleared out, but the main channel did make bedrock by this fall. The stream flow path is much narrower though, mud and leaves and twigs on one side, gravel and stones on the other.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"">JAN.13, 2012</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Last night snow fell and November turned back to January. Every branch and twig, bough and needle, whitened. Into the woods the view was obstructed as if white leaves had sprouted overnight. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Now the snow is back it’s time to reflect again on fall with images captured of flowing streams, colorful leaves, on the ground and on trees, and summer warmth still fresh in mind.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"">JAN. 14, 2012</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Below zero last night, calm and frigid at -2 F., but at least the sun will shine today. Although the snow fell yesterday and some breeze kicked up during the day the boughs and branches still suffer their snowy burden. Once evergreens sagging under heavy snow seemed “picturesque”, now they seemed stressed and sad. Perhaps I’ve seen too many broken and felled by ice or snow, friends disfigured or gone, leaving a vacancy in the heart as in the sky. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"">JAN. 17, 2012 </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Today the cold broke and all the trees are free from snow. Cold rain has shrunk the small amount of snow on the ground. Tonight’s freeze will ice the driveway, always fun. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Squirrels came out to play, first time since the bitter cold started the end of last week, at least 5-6 from every direction in the woods. Also turkeys made an appearance from the upper woods. They did not come down near the house looking for food since not much seed has been set out yet this year, only suet. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"">JAN. 18, 2019</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Normal winter returned with seasonal cold and a few lake effect showers. Yesterday’s melt exposed the grass and three deer took advantage and grazed upon the still green lawn. Although there is some snow the green shows through, but the deer have not reappeared yet today. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>With the warm snowmelt of yesterday the tree trunks and woods in general darkened with the wet. The lichens on the boles blossomed with color despite January being only half past. 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So early comes the late, mid-day the evening time. One sunny day that week I spent an hour picturing the ravine and creek until the sunshine was beyond the ridge and the creek was all in shade.<br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Although well into November, the air was warm and still and in the open the sun had hours yet to shine, a perfect day for a chat with my neighbor, Walt, and to visit his pond. He doesn’t get </span><span style="font-size:130%;">to his pond as easily anymore, so after a brief ch</span><span style="font-size:130%;">at on the driveway off I went.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho0wzCp9L62K5r5iY6XA3dlXJaBrjntH7nuuJRGIyTqxttLcXXm5CiVLgJNM2yB4MJDabo_qgTKv8c-XFu4aXLVrb0k9YZ7vpvKqUFR_fuPw7DdJrPyg6k1bnLwPy7e9_6MMTZ65fWKivm/s1600/3-EMERSON%2527S+POND-2011.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho0wzCp9L62K5r5iY6XA3dlXJaBrjntH7nuuJRGIyTqxttLcXXm5CiVLgJNM2yB4MJDabo_qgTKv8c-XFu4aXLVrb0k9YZ7vpvKqUFR_fuPw7DdJrPyg6k1bnLwPy7e9_6MMTZ65fWKivm/s400/3-EMERSON%2527S+POND-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677529257762090322" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;">From the spillway with the sun at my back, the </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSGj84gqc48GIWdnQJoaDeIeb4ja5ikt7ZNNvhD2TKld_A2vtCHywW5bZKmCV5eCcqKVlKupfDFJqzx2d1JamdLF5zj5mjTVzfJc9jhJ-FR6s_6V_i0P-y3M3YXHxCAC64G6-gnyfleMXz/s1600/5B-EMERSON%2527S+POND-2011.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSGj84gqc48GIWdnQJoaDeIeb4ja5ikt7ZNNvhD2TKld_A2vtCHywW5bZKmCV5eCcqKVlKupfDFJqzx2d1JamdLF5zj5mjTVzfJc9jhJ-FR6s_6V_i0P-y3M3YXHxCAC64G6-gnyfleMXz/s400/5B-EMERSON%2527S+POND-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677528899903487250" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">water was calm and perfectly still. While walking around the pond, a stand of poplars, against the deep blue north sky, looked as if in reflection. Looking up seemed as looking down, sky seemed as water.<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS5u-1CvdtPNNoApFXL7sOua8b1U2elB08hi_j7HQGOq57EUM0mMqg4xAMKXrZ1C4N8gPUi3YyHb-OwHAubhlpOiO_FMaEfApmEhpnoTIv5pDchQKhN0Vnen1wetKENzyxS6ask6mpjm39/s1600/4-EMERSON%2527S+POND-2011.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS5u-1CvdtPNNoApFXL7sOua8b1U2elB08hi_j7HQGOq57EUM0mMqg4xAMKXrZ1C4N8gPUi3YyHb-OwHAubhlpOiO_FMaEfApmEhpnoTIv5pDchQKhN0Vnen1wetKENzyxS6ask6mpjm39/s400/4-EMERSON%2527S+POND-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677528910306750162" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The ornamental grasses are at their finest in the fall, r</span><span style="font-size:130%;">eflected in the water or catching sun rays reflected white or transmitte</span><span style="font-size:130%;">d almost orange aglow.<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7CsJPUf6IiInnfe8b_1v4yXo75fFX2OK3K0Emxf6OMN9xrGfJHaAeSESkiGkn8zz_XOGjv5b_Z-bOQFNW2_fLBwIC0jlWISu64SQdYA1N_3PTljppYomMMU_eiZxvLdD2a43W8rJPDdza/s1600/7-EMERSON%2527S+POND-2011.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7CsJPUf6IiInnfe8b_1v4yXo75fFX2OK3K0Emxf6OMN9xrGfJHaAeSESkiGkn8zz_XOGjv5b_Z-bOQFNW2_fLBwIC0jlWISu64SQdYA1N_3PTljppYomMMU_eiZxvLdD2a43W8rJPDdza/s400/7-EMERSON%2527S+POND-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677528888017061362" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">High, thin clouds were moving in as the afternoon wore</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> on. The reflections were ideal, but time was a </span><span style="font-size:130%;">c</span><span style="font-size:130%;">oncern, an hour or s</span><span style="font-size:130%;">o at the pond, then I </span><span style="font-size:130%;">was back on </span><span style="font-size:130%;">the patio </span><span style="font-size:130%;">with Walt to tal</span><span style="font-size:130%;">k th</span><span style="font-size:130%;">e</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">d</span><span style="font-size:130%;">ay away. </span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_WofzMasRDlOPxqrHF0xK2tm_MCx3gVttSMEE89GIyF1trT6wHVnikixAH0jnMCwQobnNHTC5oIMq_-U5MxIzdOu7w65qzbWDDV2mqOj8zZkec_mPx_ra8r_b-Wb5GfR7Et7RL1oLC6u3/s1600/8-EMERSON%2527S+POND-2011.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_WofzMasRDlOPxqrHF0xK2tm_MCx3gVttSMEE89GIyF1trT6wHVnikixAH0jnMCwQobnNHTC5oIMq_-U5MxIzdOu7w65qzbWDDV2mqOj8zZkec_mPx_ra8r_b-Wb5GfR7Et7RL1oLC6u3/s400/8-EMERSON%2527S+POND-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677528882750473442" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Who can resist this invite, every day a new masterpiece of sun and blue sky, and leafy color above one’s head and at one’s feet. </span><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8AAvtMbwcdQ_GblApgH-HZU95UeoG5Ws6NFbxPgFHTalZ1ES8epq4iZRjIdoKxRDF2ra93lig3SBvl-mifui_mLgekIN_W5H-y68R59fpkIz-RzIWcJgQhrobYJ_ASkasgok12DKjw6Is/s1600/GENUNG+PRESERVE-OCT-2011-1.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8AAvtMbwcdQ_GblApgH-HZU95UeoG5Ws6NFbxPgFHTalZ1ES8epq4iZRjIdoKxRDF2ra93lig3SBvl-mifui_mLgekIN_W5H-y68R59fpkIz-RzIWcJgQhrobYJ_ASkasgok12DKjw6Is/s400/GENUNG+PRESERVE-OCT-2011-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677206071089799410" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">Often fall can be cold and wet and windy, especially late October and early November, this fall we have been blessed with abundant sunshine. With adequate moisture and plenty of sun fall color has already lasted a very long time this year, although the color was not as brilliant as it could have been with a few more frosty nights. </span><br />T<span style="font-size:130%;">he trail into the Genung Nature Preserve in nearby Freeville, N.Y. along Fall Creek invited one fine day, a short but pleasant walk, especially on an early fall afternoon, warm and full of sun.<br />An open copse of American hornbeam, commonly called ironwood or blue-beech, dominated a section of the trail. The open, airy look gives an almost mature feel to the wooded area </span><span style="font-size:130%;">and the reddish fall foliage, both on the ground and the few left on the trees gives a warm glow. </span><span style="font-size:130%;"> Often recently abandoned farm fields growing into woods are a tangled mess of vines and shrubs, small trees and bramble. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXxhk7uIx6GnvXcBr3lI-d-qRFC-x2M07LxA3KO29RSDNN-70oj4V-y9iFv54RqRb9m0zbJez8DXxftz0boSCDHAy5RSnnpfLHj-woCVRJrY7iDnOsC5rRZdJbVJy9i-QoB5IN3EauU7rh/s1600/GENUNG+PRESERVE-OCT-2011-3.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 252px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXxhk7uIx6GnvXcBr3lI-d-qRFC-x2M07LxA3KO29RSDNN-70oj4V-y9iFv54RqRb9m0zbJez8DXxftz0boSCDHAy5RSnnpfLHj-woCVRJrY7iDnOsC5rRZdJbVJy9i-QoB5IN3EauU7rh/s400/GENUNG+PRESERVE-OCT-2011-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677206059571034818" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">A nice clump of coral mushroom was caught </span><span style="font-size:130%;">posing for a portrait, </span><span style="font-size:130%;">a brief moment basking in a spot of sun shining through a canopy break </span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMQZKgga2zPK0hyAKruc6lFnxECZskscfXB0hUKb_i-yepsRdbk3JOZqU-UFf1czVx_oFivDI27Nu-KO2Rqto3SA2swfop8fW0pTxEMSPy98PppApVCLGiMP73z86YQsrr2OUWx5oXBgc5/s1600/GENUNG+PRESERVE-OCT-2011-4.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMQZKgga2zPK0hyAKruc6lFnxECZskscfXB0hUKb_i-yepsRdbk3JOZqU-UFf1czVx_oFivDI27Nu-KO2Rqto3SA2swfop8fW0pTxEMSPy98PppApVCLGiMP73z86YQsrr2OUWx5oXBgc5/s400/GENUNG+PRESERVE-OCT-2011-4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677206053220562370" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Along the bank of Fall Creek a mature oak and younger maple held out their leaves to catch some last moments of sun for this growing season. </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">As the season is fall, the sun settles too quickly and with barely enough day left, Dryden Lake beckons just down the road . As the sun drops lower in the sky a fisherman, perhaps with un-baited hook to avoid being disturbed by a luckless fish, quietly sits soaking up his fair share of autumn sun.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtXQM9rdHXkHFfSrhULXS1e5wK17RJjS4HB4xv2_5PzUfsIr8fFMQlhmyiZzkp4JFSl_uFvhe5-CIkVvJ4VOut7c4vcwmz2zeXFj4LZXlVzyTABIio1Rmhygi4Gh0hN5tyhCtASZlj1kKV/s1600/DRYDEN+LAKE-FALL-2011.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtXQM9rdHXkHFfSrhULXS1e5wK17RJjS4HB4xv2_5PzUfsIr8fFMQlhmyiZzkp4JFSl_uFvhe5-CIkVvJ4VOut7c4vcwmz2zeXFj4LZXlVzyTABIio1Rmhygi4Gh0hN5tyhCtASZlj1kKV/s400/DRYDEN+LAKE-FALL-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677206047448561746" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Each moment needs to be savored, one never kn</span><span style="font-size:130%;">o</span><span style="font-size:130%;">ws how many more, if any, warm and sunny fall days will be.<br /><br /><br />Written late-October, posted today. RDS<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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With swollen flow, large volumes of debris and rocks can alter the creek bed. This year I was lucky enough to visit before the flooding of late August, so the colorful algae growing on the rocks all summer were still there. Now the rocks have been scoured clean, becoming merely grey again.<br /><br />Early this season when it was wet and flow was high, a large log got hung up at the very brink of the falls. Grasses, delicate and graceful, fresh and green, <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqim0rtTacCtKlkn_oJcmQ7fK6DhoB7_Z-zQj2x-nNO6T5D1r1gJDn3bE6XeT35vetApifUJDapUeMYCxYJENNS587JCn4ju1zl4hHkIK99iVu1K1MRKW0XXm-q4iiZkEZIDSZoBJFDRzd/s1600/2LUCIFER+FALLS-2011I.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqim0rtTacCtKlkn_oJcmQ7fK6DhoB7_Z-zQj2x-nNO6T5D1r1gJDn3bE6XeT35vetApifUJDapUeMYCxYJENNS587JCn4ju1zl4hHkIK99iVu1K1MRKW0XXm-q4iiZkEZIDSZoBJFDRzd/s400/2LUCIFER+FALLS-2011I.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654544371446723874" border="0" /></a>growing in rock cracks, belie the harsh reality of their existence.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_z5Kyu5GF5BTzoGUDQ5a54jOBZByw9Ka2MiVxPXOhUssnfdn0C17Odw7wFDfsmqmM31bdihyGY2RImluC1JMC80ur1uJeOyZpQAaMYipEchO0bkgMLXRKjzPcH9c86MI2ETPbQOd1jLxE/s1600/3LUCIFER+FALLS-2011.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_z5Kyu5GF5BTzoGUDQ5a54jOBZByw9Ka2MiVxPXOhUssnfdn0C17Odw7wFDfsmqmM31bdihyGY2RImluC1JMC80ur1uJeOyZpQAaMYipEchO0bkgMLXRKjzPcH9c86MI2ETPbQOd1jLxE/s400/3LUCIFER+FALLS-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654544364244834642" border="0" /></a><br />Walking along the pathway edging along the cliffs, the falls opens up, revealing new looks with each step.<br /><br />The level stratification of the layered rocks seems impossible. So much time to form, so uniform to be!!<br /><br />Layer by layer the mountains drifted into the ancient sea and now </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY1WS4Z9JqVcfhiziodYJe9jG00URcI1wwgyxkDkhqgbx-1oBB9khWROmOETlpdF7eHTy51U2xRwUAKDj6HCZZZihXhZNeI9TOxW2g6-wUSOYLpX6XAwiktkOPHkstC8u__TUIGBcyfsqT/s1600/1LUCIFER+FALLS+2011.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY1WS4Z9JqVcfhiziodYJe9jG00URcI1wwgyxkDkhqgbx-1oBB9khWROmOETlpdF7eHTy51U2xRwUAKDj6HCZZZihXhZNeI9TOxW2g6-wUSOYLpX6XAwiktkOPHkstC8u__TUIGBcyfsqT/s400/1LUCIFER+FALLS+2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5654544380259624546" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">exposed for us to see, to see and wonder how it and we came to be.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Lucifer Falls is but one of many water falls at Treman State Park, perhaps the loveliest of the parks in central New York!!</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivuyOD5wnSHYiL8XDHhm0dEhuge8cHDy74M1LAVbeNoJ2UNmgnLQyQ5LJttNJZVUYkNkcVinfUJK8oaxKLSC6dUJahc3qMFqAu_kTWsknz-krWVZ1TQ3z6WmShPZ_0BgFtzewfzrkBUFPJ/s400/SPRING+BROOK-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631131606415175426" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:130%;">To the far right.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The snow melt and winter exposure left some interesting patterns on an old sheet of plywood propped against the greenhouse wall.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The image is a close-up </span><span style="font-size:130%;">view!</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf0nTlhFsanYn-0mGwuWQYjDBUWrMK6_F9DI90An3VQf2QUrcEKBO9-aG9-PWZaJXTvtP2bLG8XoVjn9MlPmj9HMKlihRLr7BP2Zem7XCFEj5AWXeDQ-JE53cY4AC25McjqqdyitJcWUzm/s1600/SPRING+BROOK+-1.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; 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But a very heavy down-pour this spring log-jammed and left a mess.<br /><br />Each year it is amazing how dramatically it changes. The amount of stone and tree trunks and branches<br />that move through is mind-boggling.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />Every few years a log-jam forms and the volume of material dammed up stuns.<br /><br />This year unfortunately the nicest part of the stream bed was silted in.<br />Looking up-stream is a mess, but down-stream is still bucolic.<br />The images are from the same rock seat only in opposite directions. The difference is dramatic.<br />A few years ago the log-jam formed where the stream</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> is the nicest now!!<br />The only constant I guess is change.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHjkq0iCJzPxiNXa-Om3ScEX6_hI1rIOSQgg7zIaAsK3j1H6-9FXerhgzh9bpI6MSI8q1KLYTEQtYU5PuMeUHUEQCM5MsWYvc-aPNo3ccz4oucUMBQyFHLgT75DDs124BMH6MlB61KhhjP/s1600/HOME+CREEK-2.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHjkq0iCJzPxiNXa-Om3ScEX6_hI1rIOSQgg7zIaAsK3j1H6-9FXerhgzh9bpI6MSI8q1KLYTEQtYU5PuMeUHUEQCM5MsWYvc-aPNo3ccz4oucUMBQyFHLgT75DDs124BMH6MlB61KhhjP/s400/HOME+CREEK-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631136226169403490" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">This is the Upper Falls area of<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;">Letchworth State Park </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzM538kaixC1MjylncXhc1GBku8g1jsCQA8tLlFbe6wEyHPi6__FiwzE-VvbbU0Kh9-N2LuqPwhe37-lrwFzSsSzMVRKZKBBGJYXZKkmv62LRBbOZE4YAwIudGw2Dvvg2QoZy0TU4AFweN/s1600/LETCHWORTH+UPPER+FALLS-JUNE-2011-1.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzM538kaixC1MjylncXhc1GBku8g1jsCQA8tLlFbe6wEyHPi6__FiwzE-VvbbU0Kh9-N2LuqPwhe37-lrwFzSsSzMVRKZKBBGJYXZKkmv62LRBbOZE4YAwIudGw2Dvvg2QoZy0TU4AFweN/s400/LETCHWORTH+UPPER+FALLS-JUNE-2011-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631125605973117186" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">walking to towards the the falls. A train of containers is going over the RR bridge. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">In mid June the evenings are long and shadows creep slowly across the scene.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;">The gorge walls cast th</span><span style="font-size:130%;">eir shadow on the falls but one side of the river banks still glows with evening sun.<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib-NVBtiLSKDBbPSAp_g6Db_IZYYXdrmLwnrJk0amfEFlSP-l5eVPxwdOwvcgdi1_Ux3YKepL2VpkKAljpFGGIp3SN0hUbQba2yiZZ3ZZQNyaichZw0BXZpUU9lAfCtgkUa2ny2BgQ7u5O/s1600/LETCHWORTH+UPPER+FALLS+JUNE-2011-2.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib-NVBtiLSKDBbPSAp_g6Db_IZYYXdrmLwnrJk0amfEFlSP-l5eVPxwdOwvcgdi1_Ux3YKepL2VpkKAljpFGGIp3SN0hUbQba2yiZZ3ZZQNyaichZw0BXZpUU9lAfCtgkUa2ny2BgQ7u5O/s400/LETCHWORTH+UPPER+FALLS+JUNE-2011-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631125599284555250" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">I’m writing this on a beautiful July morning when all is as should be with a good ball-point pen that effortlessly glides the paper: not as lovely as a fountain pen, but who has any handy anymore.<br />I’ve noticed the last few decades that younger writers, when they take pen in hand struggle with said instrument as if each word written must be choked out of it. It is quite painful to watch. Pity the poor pen, pity the poor fingers choking the life out of words. Are thoughts and words such a struggle that pain itself must be endured to release, free, their meaning, their beauty.<br />I have tried to coax thoughts from a keyboard but not much of value flows. As my handwriting deteriorates, and since thoughts must be transferred to bits and bytes, soon my choice will be no more. Now I scribble with pen on paper then slowly, hunting and pecking, letter by letter, enter written thoughts into a computer. The job done twice.<br /><br />Words and thoughts wander here to seems,<br />Hand written cursive twists and oxbows,<br />Floating along meandering streams,<br />Giving testament, life, to dreaming flows.<br /><br />Warm the morning sun, golden hues, back-lit leaves and dew glistened evergreen needles. Yet in the shadow of the woods, down the gentle hillside slope, the cool of night still drifts. Out of the still dark woods shadow, a doe and new fawn wanders, wanders to my lawn swing as quietly in daydream I sit. They pause, about twelve feet away, she senses a presence, she stares, head bobs as she assesses. I bob my head in return, still she senses no fear just uncertainty. Her fawn is still unaware. I lift my coffee cup to sip, she has none and decides it’s time to retreat. A leap turn and a few quick bounds and they are gone.<br />An idyllic moment in my Eden! Not quite. Cruelty of the real world is too evident, for on her backside dozens of flies in several patches annoy her so. Constantly, but to no avail, her backside twitches trying to rid the flies. As she bounds away a swarm of the flies, about twice as many as I had seen from only one side, follows ready to alight as soon as she stops. There were no sores or any injury and she seemed quite healthy, barely annoyed.<br />Life sucks at times and on all levels. One can only wonder WHY! Be annoyed and die!!<br />Damn another mosquito buzzes me.<br /><br />Two days later:<br />Warm rain refreshed the earth last eve. This morning’s dawn, gray from mid-night’s fog, awoke surrounding all with good earth smells, alive smells, as only an early summer shower can. Life’s exuberance perfumes the air. Life is at this year’s zenith, new born with fresh leaves and insects and birds and beasts. All is good!<br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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A good discipline would be to start each trip a little early and set aside time for the “next time I’ll stop”s. When ever I vow to stop and do rewards exceed the effort. The journey is not longer only better.<br />For many years I’ve driven over the bridge via Rte 96 near the village of Trumansburg, NY that crosses Taughannock Creek. From the bridge is glimpsed a lovely, small waterfalls, just glimpsed because there are always places to go!! But I always look to see what I may see, I never miss the glimpse.<br /><br /><br />Occasionally if the journey is short I’ll stop to take a photograph knowing “a picture-perfect” image may be found. But each time I’m never satisfied, until one morning late spring on a June day this year. In the early morning light all came together, me with camera and spring and morning light and time to stop and look!<br />Walking across the bridge, to the left, the creek flows away, a shallow stream wandering with no haste, to the great gorge and falls of Taughannock. On the other side of the bridge, looking upstream, a small, quiet cascade forms and this morning is seen in picture-perfect light. The sun is slightly dimmed by morning haze formed overnight above Cayuga Lake, yet overhead, deep blue sky. Perfect!! The shadows cast aren’t as dark, the sun lit brights are not as “hot”. The blue sky glows the water bright.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ALcJp_Sbu_qah5S7bToGkzd7U_SkpP8WG4FQzlbzlU9KoeCeztcuMUxnhsOi_XVdRjLtFQnz5LZIqXUVjyM91jyA4SfGXw0sztffnk2TWuXdDPCSXfvKxzzTIovDvQtmRlrrNWu759SF/s1600/3-T-Creek+SPRING-2011.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 245px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ALcJp_Sbu_qah5S7bToGkzd7U_SkpP8WG4FQzlbzlU9KoeCeztcuMUxnhsOi_XVdRjLtFQnz5LZIqXUVjyM91jyA4SfGXw0sztffnk2TWuXdDPCSXfvKxzzTIovDvQtmRlrrNWu759SF/s400/3-T-Creek+SPRING-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627771118912858626" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"> Traffic roars over the bridge, pounding expansion joints to deafening extremes. But every once in a while a quiet as breaks occur in traffic flow, then, for a brief moment all is good. Soon the light changes as higher goes the sun. the magic glow is gone. The scene becomes daytime pedestrian.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"> I again cross the road and gaze at the stream below, watch the water flow, this time from my right as I walk. I take another picture and head on my way. After I look at my pictures at home I notice the “handedness” of view. The point-of-view is quite different. One has a left-to-right diagonal view, the other just the opposite. Yet, as I took the photos I was standing straight, looking </span><span style="font-size:130%;">directly down stream. The initial point-of-view was retained.<br /></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbsOr_hlx3bQ0gAZqIAErYmaL1rJXc6vjFZDdylRZMNeYpJ1pKsY8YUoDkRqWJDkdfbassXNJQ8pPPaWQ0ewjuzs6HcIx6hsgDRSz92wwUP3BDtt4LOl1wA3NYq4V4p9hXvnYRINmi7Px2/s1600/4-T-Creek+SPRING-2011.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbsOr_hlx3bQ0gAZqIAErYmaL1rJXc6vjFZDdylRZMNeYpJ1pKsY8YUoDkRqWJDkdfbassXNJQ8pPPaWQ0ewjuzs6HcIx6hsgDRSz92wwUP3BDtt4LOl1wA3NYq4V4p9hXvnYRINmi7Px2/s400/4-T-Creek+SPRING-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627771107948733874" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO3DBOOy8OG0KsNggFvbied41K1usTKpw6hVYK3fvHy-7YP3Cf0r-XPthj0VJIphBEHtHDOXp2iVktJi4xcrPnlcFi-FyYmdY3kq-4t8KOlIVN6S1o_DbkHe70xgYALh3VoMXSI3GagShi/s1600/1-T-Creek+SPRING-2011.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO3DBOOy8OG0KsNggFvbied41K1usTKpw6hVYK3fvHy-7YP3Cf0r-XPthj0VJIphBEHtHDOXp2iVktJi4xcrPnlcFi-FyYmdY3kq-4t8KOlIVN6S1o_DbkHe70xgYALh3VoMXSI3GagShi/s400/1-T-Creek+SPRING-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627771130991880994" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">After getting back to the car, I continued down stream. From a pastoral, quiet calm, the creek soon plunges down a narrow chute and within a few feet opens into a deep gorge, gouged out of relatively soft shale rock. And soon another plunge, Taughannock Falls, gouging out an even deeper gorge as the creek races to Cayuga Lake.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1zRspDO_oURQI3qcHqPqOB-6A1RmiRgf9QsZqZ_QXVQZ8bCAkSlAs7GZoCMpqLvusYjcVpYizF6gxElAzpTNivLk2JOtzXckrTMB4wx5iFGhGN0_karVwMjWB2O3dIOecbn7VA8OBGtuo/s1600/5-T-Creek+SPRING-2011.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1zRspDO_oURQI3qcHqPqOB-6A1RmiRgf9QsZqZ_QXVQZ8bCAkSlAs7GZoCMpqLvusYjcVpYizF6gxElAzpTNivLk2JOtzXckrTMB4wx5iFGhGN0_karVwMjWB2O3dIOecbn7VA8OBGtuo/s400/5-T-Creek+SPRING-2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627770555450237922" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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In the magical time of life when imagination and reality blend, as identity and values form, it’s beauty and agelessness impressed. Historical perspective, both human and geological, was absorbed. An outlook on reality, the who, what, when and where we each need to know took root.<br /><br />In passing through a human life is short,<br />Enough time to wonder why,<br />But not enough to know.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHp4E_v-f52QRLhrCk6ac2Llf2xs-NRmNR-pxIvK4AxA6bT314zp___aeXRDe9t3nUnzF-Esovc9IpgQ0TUvzBaf9Rhucn0caMnJ5G5aAZLbCac21zOOT3OzKsse2MOD2wssd9q2VYTjun/s1600/3-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHp4E_v-f52QRLhrCk6ac2Llf2xs-NRmNR-pxIvK4AxA6bT314zp___aeXRDe9t3nUnzF-Esovc9IpgQ0TUvzBaf9Rhucn0caMnJ5G5aAZLbCac21zOOT3OzKsse2MOD2wssd9q2VYTjun/s400/3-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621090889958109122" border="0" /></a> </span><span style="font-size:130%;">Magnificent the Genesee Valley farms and hills and meadows and woods and vales, on and on seemingly from forever into the present, at one’s feet the present falls away on and on into the past. Layer by layer of age exposed, exposed by time. Forever ago vast ocean deposits where uplifted to form giant mountains of time, knocked down grain by grain to form vast level layers before me now, exposed by time and relentless water flowing, ever flowing ever removing grain by grain the ocean floor that once was a mountain top that was an ocean floor. Repeated not forever but cycled only few, for time is short yet time is long. Now I stand and see almost eternity where thick rivers of ice at times ran free. Not once, not twice but many times, making the valley of Genesee.<br /><br />Passing through a human life is short.<br /><br />More than once ice rivers, heavy and deep, flowed south, as the Genesee River now flows north, scouring clean the living earth, gouging deep and rending sterile the rock beneath. So small seems the living, so large loomed the ice. Again and again, it scoured, again and again, life retreated, again and again, the ice fell back and life advanced, reclaiming the barren land. However, each advance changed the landscape and before us now the result of life and ice in conflict so very long ago.<br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsY-uOiIlGvCZF8l_izRS-wqJB9yjmqcNB2Rm1EdPGYAjawkFOTGZod8uQtj8NG6Y0ZWLklB3RExeV9ChwCgyyMHD5dfxVgUSmZViNrvPgB8aN-kMo9Yo83LMOwx2LHtQ-g-Mpjjlj-W65/s1600/4-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsY-uOiIlGvCZF8l_izRS-wqJB9yjmqcNB2Rm1EdPGYAjawkFOTGZod8uQtj8NG6Y0ZWLklB3RExeV9ChwCgyyMHD5dfxVgUSmZViNrvPgB8aN-kMo9Yo83LMOwx2LHtQ-g-Mpjjlj-W65/s400/4-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621090881155379618" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy15nQjNFebv0LaPw7KNhvsVPpVQrW7ff07bE9nXi1JKGO8ocQs5l71GgsZ5ImszYYpp7YU8p1dL2P-3MVQqPgK6H2j5otvXO7iqt7nNqu_AJAzoQLvR179c0oGHGciFncnNMGQgBWscuL/s1600/3-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy15nQjNFebv0LaPw7KNhvsVPpVQrW7ff07bE9nXi1JKGO8ocQs5l71GgsZ5ImszYYpp7YU8p1dL2P-3MVQqPgK6H2j5otvXO7iqt7nNqu_AJAzoQLvR179c0oGHGciFncnNMGQgBWscuL/s400/3-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621090874335890114" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbAQZ-8uhDferQk27o8B_Ue2p2XvY6I41QuYQXBKPDl0vVNj5Upy37X5Iiz8q8URcVZG4_FNly8xDuZvx9R1yYlygNjTRklK0aMIME20Sy6uQPx396kx10CyvTbeik3NeWYzSxKNZK5a_y/s1600/4-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbAQZ-8uhDferQk27o8B_Ue2p2XvY6I41QuYQXBKPDl0vVNj5Upy37X5Iiz8q8URcVZG4_FNly8xDuZvx9R1yYlygNjTRklK0aMIME20Sy6uQPx396kx10CyvTbeik3NeWYzSxKNZK5a_y/s400/4-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621090872130110482" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkdp9hL2057gI2u1_6Tikjt03QDFJvymRgIlb9tKgnwmocZTEvQ1jjJS10xWOmwyafaRtrd2bBqYteQ19oMKhuXZMPvG3QFO-r34mLHKv79lLdZt3-5_hzcpYIxDG_1FnIxD_qj-Hqf6UH/s1600/2-LETCHWORTH-NOV2010.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkdp9hL2057gI2u1_6Tikjt03QDFJvymRgIlb9tKgnwmocZTEvQ1jjJS10xWOmwyafaRtrd2bBqYteQ19oMKhuXZMPvG3QFO-r34mLHKv79lLdZt3-5_hzcpYIxDG_1FnIxD_qj-Hqf6UH/s400/2-LETCHWORTH-NOV2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621090890789955586" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUC99g6x6-nbV-wdyIk6HccHM11b-CJwmKLE-G0qyIZG4j1PmaibVzL3q_bXQQYLxux4P_eH8xfEsZd38ATE5Q014jXuCK_RVrYaH9d-RcxU7_PxyFBYCC5wED_dLs4ZJ2kJSFMqfi1Ff4/s1600/9-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 228px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUC99g6x6-nbV-wdyIk6HccHM11b-CJwmKLE-G0qyIZG4j1PmaibVzL3q_bXQQYLxux4P_eH8xfEsZd38ATE5Q014jXuCK_RVrYaH9d-RcxU7_PxyFBYCC5wED_dLs4ZJ2kJSFMqfi1Ff4/s400/9-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621090007828035778" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Further and further from ago highway hum makes numb.<br /><br />Taking vast vistas at a glance frees the spirit, frees thought from earthly constraints.<br /><br />Eternity almost becomes tenable. Into far distant eras, the mind easily slips, but projections into a future time remain remiss. Ahead is seen as only the recent past projected, seen as the result of what happened, not of what will be. Brief our sojourn, brief our history. Thinking back but only three or four generations is a monumental leap of imagination, for reality begins at our birth, all else is hearsay.<br />Someone living today could have spoken to someone who talked to a Founder, almost certainly someone who lived the Civil War. How brief the modern era, how changed the world in so few lifetimes.<br /><br />Brief life’s light does shine,<br />Each a moment’s flash divine.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmtTaDXFi7LbUvgnmaSFFJIS4ZNWYNruV1PbSEb3dxNyv3Gv2BkduFt5KNiDL1e2traEig9WX3giGzfbnyzEOd9Sk09wac71pd-HU6ACpbN3FUBkKfSXYMbt3SvJbrzQrKU13PvEvULQEI/s1600/7-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmtTaDXFi7LbUvgnmaSFFJIS4ZNWYNruV1PbSEb3dxNyv3Gv2BkduFt5KNiDL1e2traEig9WX3giGzfbnyzEOd9Sk09wac71pd-HU6ACpbN3FUBkKfSXYMbt3SvJbrzQrKU13PvEvULQEI/s400/7-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621089999191946002" border="0" /></a></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzvLoWFvxu-zv-HN7pw9J7v-87AovSCzdRF4WFGS6dD6ggbyVWH0BKHjKegP8utJL68XFRO1Mm1_yB1niqIeFXCAWzP-7ylLFfZSOjA5LsJaL9HtJrE9xf3piMFa6WLaEmFcpNupKhVb1a/s1600/6-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 244px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzvLoWFvxu-zv-HN7pw9J7v-87AovSCzdRF4WFGS6dD6ggbyVWH0BKHjKegP8utJL68XFRO1Mm1_yB1niqIeFXCAWzP-7ylLFfZSOjA5LsJaL9HtJrE9xf3piMFa6WLaEmFcpNupKhVb1a/s400/6-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621089995432483506" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguT5f-VIeFM35OJJmiBIpBWmgdFonBFg2XwMtWXV-DkcFGdw6-oI3I9NtrcIfSksXzK53SbMwPpmzJGFHesPU5r459x7Y20A8IQN5Jjrm_dptKEbVpfglwpQ6okbGh2hszA09b8w-J5xfP/s1600/10-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 244px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguT5f-VIeFM35OJJmiBIpBWmgdFonBFg2XwMtWXV-DkcFGdw6-oI3I9NtrcIfSksXzK53SbMwPpmzJGFHesPU5r459x7Y20A8IQN5Jjrm_dptKEbVpfglwpQ6okbGh2hszA09b8w-J5xfP/s400/10-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621090014706920338" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Many a year ago, a man named At and a woman named Sophie began a family. On the first of June this year, for the first time in more than a hundred years, no child of theirs breathes upon this earth.<br /><br />The earth is now less. Blessed have I been to have known and loved and lived among their offspring and now blessed am I to carry onward in their stead.<br /><br />Another Passing:<br />The sign’s askance, hanging, hanging sideways by only a single nail, looking sad as does the garden and drive. Invasive plants and time overtake. Few splashes of colorful blossoms defy the trend. It is sad to see, sad to feel, sad so much effort wasted.<br /><br />Life is a struggle and relentless nature wins. Take advantage of your strengths for soon they will become your weakness.<br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAJIuuL0-34Qqp5dWpNt6u7zPkLMAwKqiINLGcaI6e2oCAqPvG86TfMrRtEvQiC4GafHqhyuu7W2OFbosjGmO1b1t721_0tDqGtHfu91t3qu7S161xs7BA5wai9JNtZYD9JjqClb0pp6ex/s1600/12-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAJIuuL0-34Qqp5dWpNt6u7zPkLMAwKqiINLGcaI6e2oCAqPvG86TfMrRtEvQiC4GafHqhyuu7W2OFbosjGmO1b1t721_0tDqGtHfu91t3qu7S161xs7BA5wai9JNtZYD9JjqClb0pp6ex/s400/12-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621088512944115778" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuDDir1xklIdRgJAbpDu71JE-QTgnpzkr86gtq45Z5swFYX8MnIgDVPl7Qb_GnreW9iuA0CODQJcDKlPPyud9pDtSSS8N7hSW-2OcMmhthlt9JwzrcGNuzer0ekp1hOjHOCBF8s487P_Wl/s1600/11-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuDDir1xklIdRgJAbpDu71JE-QTgnpzkr86gtq45Z5swFYX8MnIgDVPl7Qb_GnreW9iuA0CODQJcDKlPPyud9pDtSSS8N7hSW-2OcMmhthlt9JwzrcGNuzer0ekp1hOjHOCBF8s487P_Wl/s400/11-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621089040597733474" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM1RFU7ya5RZOy_twxdtDm_9y6adz178aOhtYwbohjh4LScTDz1UIIl9nNjWPk6jrMLJPIk4ByI5BDlIcu1Lz7NWGVDP7dw5cZGwij_3riIl_itGnDPDq0NqxCIczpy81MNlWLpaM2TFYM/s1600/15-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM1RFU7ya5RZOy_twxdtDm_9y6adz178aOhtYwbohjh4LScTDz1UIIl9nNjWPk6jrMLJPIk4ByI5BDlIcu1Lz7NWGVDP7dw5cZGwij_3riIl_itGnDPDq0NqxCIczpy81MNlWLpaM2TFYM/s400/15-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621088513390301874" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE3U8oRrVX9XpEMU41MSvzOw__P3G-P0oII7Am50WZejJcanBN_y15CMOX-jig8lYB6060GrEpnDP_xcvS2pJZX8vr47J2ynqfpCGnyeAFZeTBbHeqRBzl6DsOI-RN70fxrCPcga0Kldqa/s1600/14-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE3U8oRrVX9XpEMU41MSvzOw__P3G-P0oII7Am50WZejJcanBN_y15CMOX-jig8lYB6060GrEpnDP_xcvS2pJZX8vr47J2ynqfpCGnyeAFZeTBbHeqRBzl6DsOI-RN70fxrCPcga0Kldqa/s400/14-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621088523227408386" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">Inspiration Point<br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />Old age is difficult to fathom. Decline depresses. Youth’s strength, enthusiasm succumbs to eventuality. Change is </span><span style="font-size:130%;">constant, life is brief, life is change, and then life is over, a one-way ride to eternity. If each genetic being, the union of two other genetically unique beings yields a forever entity, why the pain and anguish of an earthly existence? Life is good, life is short, life is incomprehensible!! Endless seems the river flowing from source to sea, it is but delusion. Ebbs and </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Eh26Jwe4sRs-pvypraLig73j0rdudBJ053fBeDe3_clg-W6KhXyYEbRL-rvsDTsAMiE0ZtmVIgup4KA_mMkvEKno0BKm8GioPdWzMBJF1rEDbJ38ER6Dg6-7f8zbF8MnjEJz-9-MlrbE/s1600/13-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 247px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Eh26Jwe4sRs-pvypraLig73j0rdudBJ053fBeDe3_clg-W6KhXyYEbRL-rvsDTsAMiE0ZtmVIgup4KA_mMkvEKno0BKm8GioPdWzMBJF1rEDbJ38ER6Dg6-7f8zbF8MnjEJz-9-MlrbE/s400/13-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621088875772857778" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:130%;">flows beyond one’s years one’s only sense of eternity.</span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOOjbx_N2NLi8XEasHXI6oHIqrZoifp7fRpJZ-ArpLukuAuuunUNVvhGiPC3uq4OvIpDEKkjjtFz6e_ta-vvS6ost644OJCovO0C1hQwZD0eX_O6bXt85uyOLKw6BJyl26YxuDbdDJAdlV/s1600/16A-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOOjbx_N2NLi8XEasHXI6oHIqrZoifp7fRpJZ-ArpLukuAuuunUNVvhGiPC3uq4OvIpDEKkjjtFz6e_ta-vvS6ost644OJCovO0C1hQwZD0eX_O6bXt85uyOLKw6BJyl26YxuDbdDJAdlV/s400/16A-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621087266637232914" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Ominous the cold, gray clouds, dripping heavy silence, stillness reigns, death in spring’s prime. The first of June, twilight, a life passed, one last breath and all is still.<br /><br /><br />Now At and Sophie’s kids are no more, and the world is less!!<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEVnn1puWo5GuIK1N9z96cDH_a6J-3TsZ6ZGW1UZUsOBSUDcDXgDVKf1uxDgRNaOy9MR_mpSbsIh_1RErfh3puSR2LUc2EPWGf3Q7AhzJmZeCtJquUJ30FevqdI8ezUSVG4mAaFiPRUaL2/s1600/16-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEVnn1puWo5GuIK1N9z96cDH_a6J-3TsZ6ZGW1UZUsOBSUDcDXgDVKf1uxDgRNaOy9MR_mpSbsIh_1RErfh3puSR2LUc2EPWGf3Q7AhzJmZeCtJquUJ30FevqdI8ezUSVG4mAaFiPRUaL2/s400/16-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621087271826210610" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />Brief life’s light does shine<br />Each moment’s flash divine.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;">Rainbow at Middle Falls</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPPVBxrx5AxM4vFA_f2WbAjFjztnVHHajoWa-lRI4tDeJm0SAOeyi_rypih2EgsrsvL7eIdzgcw86NjmWb-jlEYmEdXQC8kfMJHjY1rZazjVHUXqStWPJi6MHJPKwhRoXuyTmnO_ua7qBW/s1600/17-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPPVBxrx5AxM4vFA_f2WbAjFjztnVHHajoWa-lRI4tDeJm0SAOeyi_rypih2EgsrsvL7eIdzgcw86NjmWb-jlEYmEdXQC8kfMJHjY1rZazjVHUXqStWPJi6MHJPKwhRoXuyTmnO_ua7qBW/s400/17-LETCHWORTH-NOV+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621087274831615138" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Apparently it had been burning since 4A.M. and it was now early afternoon.<br /><br />The non-native grasses that have newly invaded were tinder dry and burned quickly. Luckily there was no wind and spreading was reduced.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6cQAXKM03HN4jl7lbtX4_aSKfTgssQDHxzLfhIBcxmITVZ6HVCfk59S9kTqhqT6qIrSrMJaceQNtJSo_HO2_z5wiZDAOUXLkvbniBsWFVwVVZSPRGvaCmZBTOM2_noXJk1cG8GfF07bPl/s1600/AZUMAFIRE-3.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6cQAXKM03HN4jl7lbtX4_aSKfTgssQDHxzLfhIBcxmITVZ6HVCfk59S9kTqhqT6qIrSrMJaceQNtJSo_HO2_z5wiZDAOUXLkvbniBsWFVwVVZSPRGvaCmZBTOM2_noXJk1cG8GfF07bPl/s400/AZUMAFIRE-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602884419602133394" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0OshQL-Mk7NemJGP9Z5nvq5dyVlpbMNSxKHtza-7-sq-mlr-xiWMzkX4W5j_qyLAi_xVMOBK4dyRPMKRcswlAlp38wdoIq3u-6QOh2zQw0ZacT36K0_V2PlgAexM_vvekLSu94JYac4-q/s1600/AZUMAFIRE-4.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0OshQL-Mk7NemJGP9Z5nvq5dyVlpbMNSxKHtza-7-sq-mlr-xiWMzkX4W5j_qyLAi_xVMOBK4dyRPMKRcswlAlp38wdoIq3u-6QOh2zQw0ZacT36K0_V2PlgAexM_vvekLSu94JYac4-q/s400/AZUMAFIRE-4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602884411995751298" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">S</span><span style="font-size:130%;">ince the fire seemed spent, I wandered to the nearby observation tower just as a new flare exploded into fire. The flames shot high again and smoke blackened the sky. But water and shorter plants restricted the spread and soon the flames died down.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWVGNSJlyKNi7fwIcCdo6zSupw2fdqt2BJ4ReoRruP-oZl_PXxYL1Y-qpDP7AkKiTQVTdStEPVSTtIDj_AwIZNwSGjmlIG4Zc7oejosJd6yKeoVmBR7V0VtXqEFhnVUsn7ZxgK2F0jTHbS/s1600/AZUMAFIRE-5.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWVGNSJlyKNi7fwIcCdo6zSupw2fdqt2BJ4ReoRruP-oZl_PXxYL1Y-qpDP7AkKiTQVTdStEPVSTtIDj_AwIZNwSGjmlIG4Zc7oejosJd6yKeoVmBR7V0VtXqEFhnVUsn7ZxgK2F0jTHbS/s400/AZUMAFIRE-5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602884405092700610" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />Heading back to the car, an old black willow trunk, split and gnarled caught my eye.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Willows hold leaves late into the fall and often leaf out early in the spring. These leaves hold the wet and heavy snow that may fall early or late causing many branches and trunks to crack or break. Character is born from life's trials.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />When looked at closely it is amazing the fantastic shapes and color and texture that reveal a beauty all its own. </span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi62tazfxNCXMcEmVI3yA0VbeHgEu4f2p830CnJtpkS53LJNx-eS-vcQjADKcDy0QUxyZgUjRDiRMkIs2Vj17OiVZqKyD45gB75EnCJTS8KyPcLYvd_OCxH8LwPBZE2OJfoDT8W8TqgbsFq/s1600/AZUMAFIRE-7.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 269px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi62tazfxNCXMcEmVI3yA0VbeHgEu4f2p830CnJtpkS53LJNx-eS-vcQjADKcDy0QUxyZgUjRDiRMkIs2Vj17OiVZqKyD45gB75EnCJTS8KyPcLYvd_OCxH8LwPBZE2OJfoDT8W8TqgbsFq/s400/AZUMAFIRE-7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602883823196832114" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxPJFFSDEAX8AbiXpR-6H5fb_oOS6PJ3pq6zppqTa-O9nd7uOn2wnX_O6MJHu_pY4p3PVWHnwTQPKE_Ign2UiO_CO4bH5C_1wZCA1sTE2X1gEeGVqaNmyQCasCijzLrr5o8oGE8F35MylV/s1600/AZUMAFIRE-8.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 287px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxPJFFSDEAX8AbiXpR-6H5fb_oOS6PJ3pq6zppqTa-O9nd7uOn2wnX_O6MJHu_pY4p3PVWHnwTQPKE_Ign2UiO_CO4bH5C_1wZCA1sTE2X1gEeGVqaNmyQCasCijzLrr5o8oGE8F35MylV/s400/AZUMAFIRE-8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602883816819976162" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlOznY0eOe3kN5w9lqNunvv3Klr_UB6l1F9Mss9liVB9Lf5YB68PzStl0XU5qIt9pAJ5c6LIzEcV4xPUaO_3jHrm49ZumhyjSxpPAxjK-kYksSQ3ErUVjnTlF68ctNQxBoY440ZRMf6eFs/s1600/AZUMAFIRE-9.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 291px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlOznY0eOe3kN5w9lqNunvv3Klr_UB6l1F9Mss9liVB9Lf5YB68PzStl0XU5qIt9pAJ5c6LIzEcV4xPUaO_3jHrm49ZumhyjSxpPAxjK-kYksSQ3ErUVjnTlF68ctNQxBoY440ZRMf6eFs/s400/AZUMAFIRE-9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602884401430194946" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp19c99PU0AxTHM3cuEpCRECBfs3yLZHfbm1d7xUGvAkguCg0vFqPRxJrsMD8sTezUd5KZOZMbMjotPmdrCYml_KPo2LDtqMwmE8HDG9emw1Jy5LDvxpOWPAt0n-hsf1boj1WVUhd9KFT1/s1600/AZUMAFIRE-11.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp19c99PU0AxTHM3cuEpCRECBfs3yLZHfbm1d7xUGvAkguCg0vFqPRxJrsMD8sTezUd5KZOZMbMjotPmdrCYml_KPo2LDtqMwmE8HDG9emw1Jy5LDvxpOWPAt0n-hsf1boj1WVUhd9KFT1/s400/AZUMAFIRE-11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602883809514812978" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />In northern part of the marsh the NYS Barge Canal </span><span style="font-size:130%;">ru</span><span style="font-size:130%;">ns. These two images were the only real color to be seen this early in the spring except for blue sky and a little bit of green grass.<br /><br />The locks and lock-master's house had just been freshly painted </span><span style="font-size:130%;">and just screamed to be taken!!<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The strength of the rack and pinion used to open the lock is evident in its mass!</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgcUPo9ixmxwTXXLmTpwL6hoJyuTbYPvNdMLO57lCCCCKrUuKDxO5cjGGYA65k2aXamd0gETRF9kFUP6q8GDZxD_Ckuy7sEyW9ff89Y_BDMBdU-YS1WDkVaUD4EzyaVALlu4m6qipPqLdZ/s1600/AZUMAFIRE-10.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 247px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgcUPo9ixmxwTXXLmTpwL6hoJyuTbYPvNdMLO57lCCCCKrUuKDxO5cjGGYA65k2aXamd0gETRF9kFUP6q8GDZxD_Ckuy7sEyW9ff89Y_BDMBdU-YS1WDkVaUD4EzyaVALlu4m6qipPqLdZ/s400/AZUMAFIRE-10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602883813897641842" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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A large force must be at work to carve this pool.<br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcLAkyJ1aHm2LsIbPsr3y8CPCjM_yQ9-6EYkdnQcKUh1Xc3zgdk533gUSJGRquwi-utlz3IiJe0ZdP83Kx7sjvl6Q6mGAbFH_P1uvdaXGBAR3DR98Dudfmu4_mB-Ht8O_8i5p7_1AoQZn3/s1600/TALLULAH-1.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 277px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcLAkyJ1aHm2LsIbPsr3y8CPCjM_yQ9-6EYkdnQcKUh1Xc3zgdk533gUSJGRquwi-utlz3IiJe0ZdP83Kx7sjvl6Q6mGAbFH_P1uvdaXGBAR3DR98Dudfmu4_mB-Ht8O_8i5p7_1AoQZn3/s400/TALLULAH-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597411259014031330" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">Geology is a humbling science second only to astronomy. But geology is touchable, we trip and fall and pick ourselves up in geological environs. We can ponder the stars, but we can touch the earth, see the effects of time's passage before our very eyes. A speck of stone is revealed in each dawn’s light as new, never before seen by conscious beings, tiny specks of life that are aware as no other specks have been in the eons that is earth’s existence.<br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1onPWaRKpwgqPaxH1RjA-OFB0P8A9r_b6xrV-VENVtZG3FWjtRItTXHdPom-Dkdf3iRqHxvzhyPTXTp-CJxHvLif3C4TBto2bPgnFRgMURyhy_YobMj2cQyVif1l9jnNuDaTBjcOdW9W9/s1600/TALLULAH-2.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1onPWaRKpwgqPaxH1RjA-OFB0P8A9r_b6xrV-VENVtZG3FWjtRItTXHdPom-Dkdf3iRqHxvzhyPTXTp-CJxHvLif3C4TBto2bPgnFRgMURyhy_YobMj2cQyVif1l9jnNuDaTBjcOdW9W9/s400/TALLULAH-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597411254630098210" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio97V2xP_t_wAn8K34ZcQt-9kRWlmGeQh_qd2f5LYo5x6_xCrlLmb0uSt51MOd2izmjPdChNjG_9km1wjAwEiiLpEfEikmZoLi28t52fEBZ3-yauGkzNC4vCdkW8N3jejyFqAsIdkyioWk/s1600/TALLULAH-3.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio97V2xP_t_wAn8K34ZcQt-9kRWlmGeQh_qd2f5LYo5x6_xCrlLmb0uSt51MOd2izmjPdChNjG_9km1wjAwEiiLpEfEikmZoLi28t52fEBZ3-yauGkzNC4vCdkW8N3jejyFqAsIdkyioWk/s400/TALLULAH-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597411251466158434" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK3xI3V3PC6E_DJ7_IxeSGib7THaGE18pUgNCddPk_y4yAyVMkyTjmv8KvxM1XF9pN0h98Q6w8YDy55k8WVWmGnbjzmGUk7AMDC9_d1JVosK-zlY9pc2s3pUZnDnGKRXoukpb8UP-H7JTO/s1600/TALLULAH-4.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK3xI3V3PC6E_DJ7_IxeSGib7THaGE18pUgNCddPk_y4yAyVMkyTjmv8KvxM1XF9pN0h98Q6w8YDy55k8WVWmGnbjzmGUk7AMDC9_d1JVosK-zlY9pc2s3pUZnDnGKRXoukpb8UP-H7JTO/s400/TALLULAH-4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597411246303315378" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">On July 18, 1970, the high-wire artist Karl Wallenda walked across the gorge. Only eight years before members of the Flying Wallendas were doing their famous human pyramid in Detroit, falling and killing two and injuring him. In 1978, eight years later he himself would fall and be killed while performing.<br />The towers used in 1970 are still to be seen above Tallulah Gorge, a grim reminder of a dangerous profession.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;">Just along the rim the long downhill t</span><span style="font-size:130%;">rail to Hurricane Falls and the river bottom start. There is plenty of warning about the trail, all justified, 1099 steps I think! The downward steps aren’t that tough but uphill they turn against you.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Atop the rim of the </span><span style="font-size:130%;">gorge looking </span>u<span style="font-size:130%;">pstream, white waterfalls and rapids are seen, while looking downstream some pines cling precariously to the wall, and the beauty of the season and sunlight dramatically complete the scene.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRTI_higCf9oEyAAgGN1vOWGcZe01_Gr5fA1a4bbhbiibhysJ4lpfrIBbSKcwoR0j9kfn5rrRUoIDXbm6gOXvkRdGJJ8_-cM9uO9lWFVx8Tzw-ukFIHp8xsZ6d4tg0vR9VbSp-yy9Bc_Wd/s1600/TALLULAH-6.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRTI_higCf9oEyAAgGN1vOWGcZe01_Gr5fA1a4bbhbiibhysJ4lpfrIBbSKcwoR0j9kfn5rrRUoIDXbm6gOXvkRdGJJ8_-cM9uO9lWFVx8Tzw-ukFIHp8xsZ6d4tg0vR9VbSp-yy9Bc_Wd/s400/TALLULAH-6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597411027751831298" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnJMxbeX_2ukRM69jMNjLajusa0M1YY2XqzrovLoGyFEDKdowCl0yRiTTkvYcNlOaCUxb13L4g9yUaAP0nlFemZ1zE8ShEFUCZ1uTCKwShhqWh3xh0P814ed-GIstM9PgmetyTx3cTTCNR/s1600/TALLULAH-5.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 235px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnJMxbeX_2ukRM69jMNjLajusa0M1YY2XqzrovLoGyFEDKdowCl0yRiTTkvYcNlOaCUxb13L4g9yUaAP0nlFemZ1zE8ShEFUCZ1uTCKwShhqWh3xh0P814ed-GIstM9PgmetyTx3cTTCNR/s400/TALLULAH-5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597411032884870994" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdeJpJrwGUj9ZagkhaWvzBj8nVWwjpLvX5fCSFgHgtA1Bi_uXLlJ5rQqr2JkkWr5zP_7v6jHZGw5IKf8gbQwbRbBhPBSyE9jJF1KjspYTYmogV1wMYXmY75lcG_agQrSGVDxBgoALeZeVN/s1600/TALLULAH-10.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdeJpJrwGUj9ZagkhaWvzBj8nVWwjpLvX5fCSFgHgtA1Bi_uXLlJ5rQqr2JkkWr5zP_7v6jHZGw5IKf8gbQwbRbBhPBSyE9jJF1KjspYTYmogV1wMYXmY75lcG_agQrSGVDxBgoALeZeVN/s400/TALLULAH-10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597410736719398770" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;">Hurricane Falls is only partially seen from the bottom and the downstream</span> <span style="font-size:130%;">look is mostly b</span><span style="font-size:130%;">oulders. It is hard to believe that<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;">kayaking is possible through the rocks but when the river flow is increased with releases from the dam it is quite popular. </span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEippa8Xsd-fWjzmYeCWCjtYzEJbHbdCqWvpztfse6Ji4ohnVWjGGkvvixgFMXwDkFPKRCPxspPWYeaGdzWJTAmpKQFtFJccgn9RWqDZ0M7iO8YQr6Qkdyr05LBJB1TdSHvcacP5QYFiVWO7/s1600/TALLULAH-7.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 218px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEippa8Xsd-fWjzmYeCWCjtYzEJbHbdCqWvpztfse6Ji4ohnVWjGGkvvixgFMXwDkFPKRCPxspPWYeaGdzWJTAmpKQFtFJccgn9RWqDZ0M7iO8YQr6Qkdyr05LBJB1TdSHvcacP5QYFiVWO7/s400/TALLULAH-7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597411024961891874" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgscbNBFVuLyRXtS7UuNw40dSF3ikMNDmr3HSNulqd1LR8EGMCz93vXdDKsOCx9mTgdsLASgk5rDqtYQD9rKE9PdCKNB0ufPfDuRgfdH4Z4yjvaCY2jGSWBvU-eKWU9llHCzLiJVFs39XGu/s1600/TALLULAH-9.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 191px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgscbNBFVuLyRXtS7UuNw40dSF3ikMNDmr3HSNulqd1LR8EGMCz93vXdDKsOCx9mTgdsLASgk5rDqtYQD9rKE9PdCKNB0ufPfDuRgfdH4Z4yjvaCY2jGSWBvU-eKWU9llHCzLiJVFs39XGu/s400/TALLULAH-9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597410738625912674" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Looking up the gorge walls you can see an overlook. I commented to a man that I had seen at the overlook earlier about how smart to be up there. He replied “ No, not really, because up there you what to be down here!!” </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAdN2jPmeWwNQjtIPCxemALTYjWf_bmtWrFq0DvvJqqwp7wxZmxlLI35dAbqW-xD-7S1KpWzoEDXuDhjqS1TzKNnEUoNdzdFOKu0m4Xf0uLxVNO7Vi3C8_AHbm-XxIuc-vmHrzQppIrvb3/s1600/TALLULAH-11.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAdN2jPmeWwNQjtIPCxemALTYjWf_bmtWrFq0DvvJqqwp7wxZmxlLI35dAbqW-xD-7S1KpWzoEDXuDhjqS1TzKNnEUoNdzdFOKu0m4Xf0uLxVNO7Vi3C8_AHbm-XxIuc-vmHrzQppIrvb3/s400/TALLULAH-11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597410733857081314" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">About two-thirds up from the river bed, past the suspension bridge above the falls, the steps seem endless!! </span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT1r9TOsXMkKfnOvPKvuYXtI-eDtBZbREj8fa7tgeoZq9UWpafFGY5g4stC52ePwX_Q1fvWEznN83lVbTO1iEkhSGTjjF8xhpUIJOW8Q0iI_b3rToSePKF_zgmYJs8GL1odkkFDfAt7bvr/s1600/TALLULAH-12.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT1r9TOsXMkKfnOvPKvuYXtI-eDtBZbREj8fa7tgeoZq9UWpafFGY5g4stC52ePwX_Q1fvWEznN83lVbTO1iEkhSGTjjF8xhpUIJOW8Q0iI_b3rToSePKF_zgmYJs8GL1odkkFDfAt7bvr/s400/TALLULAH-12.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597410721427484450" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBFICemKFQkT6SvfOvrAWaeAWvcsetlPTJUG4MjE8v35XUq8spO46uKAnUqn1QtmaJmdKTS0PyFXrtl3daqfNVKGMimqkiT2QrXJu26cv7_VvhdO0i26X3oCuYTxCZgoRcjyCZZ1jJjbvC/s1600/TALLULAH-13.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBFICemKFQkT6SvfOvrAWaeAWvcsetlPTJUG4MjE8v35XUq8spO46uKAnUqn1QtmaJmdKTS0PyFXrtl3daqfNVKGMimqkiT2QrXJu26cv7_VvhdO0i26X3oCuYTxCZgoRcjyCZZ1jJjbvC/s400/TALLULAH-13.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597410720435193298" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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Silly me I made a trip to Sapsucker Woods thinking that this would be my last chance to see the retreat of winter. Chuckle, chuckle, Thursday and Friday were sweet with spring fever breaking out. Robins were arriving and Red-winged blackbirds too. Cardinals sang into the deep blue sky, chickadees and jays and even crows changed their tune!! Then Sunday early snow began, and fell for 24 straight hours and almost 20 ". Spring sprung a snowy leak.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">This is what caught my eye when spring was on my mind and Sapsucker Woods called forth!!<br /><br />Winter's first retreat is at the edge when dry draws the solar warmth and spreads to the wet.<br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXFv7M1Dv3Tg57D7Jkusco-1wY0C0cSG__YFwZylI_pn80ZytQXafu-tVLirlr8n1ZLyrJvUl1YCaJpjEequD3Aam30zmOYxrzByjvFD-wCxfJhYsmw9vK0W8Ru9joi0LJW-NCqflPiLjT/s1600/3-SAPSUCKER-MARCH+2011.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 239px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXFv7M1Dv3Tg57D7Jkusco-1wY0C0cSG__YFwZylI_pn80ZytQXafu-tVLirlr8n1ZLyrJvUl1YCaJpjEequD3Aam30zmOYxrzByjvFD-wCxfJhYsmw9vK0W8Ru9joi0LJW-NCqflPiLjT/s400/3-SAPSUCKER-MARCH+2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590699257048890050" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Afbqqz4QYPqQP-z9aJI97hUETJXtgeMcMHGK4MxFCpZy9EX96vShCf8YT35A4iC_ftQx04avHya4d79lLxBqX7itfsqBtdTQ69AVOl-A56OhetONSg_qQbwKHTcLsJ05XOTUk5AVUl1Z/s1600/4-SAPSUCKER-MARCH+2011.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Afbqqz4QYPqQP-z9aJI97hUETJXtgeMcMHGK4MxFCpZy9EX96vShCf8YT35A4iC_ftQx04avHya4d79lLxBqX7itfsqBtdTQ69AVOl-A56OhetONSg_qQbwKHTcLsJ05XOTUk5AVUl1Z/s400/4-SAPSUCKER-MARCH+2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590699247487567714" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">Every non-white absorbs the ever-brighter sun and, as the degree days accumulate, dramatic changes occur.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">In winter all is uniform, details matter less. But as spring draws near they matter and become early spring events.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOAeDEnXsv_Kv3jgMtEj69J8PPHYGWlQs05nPz2R-pXzrVT12hVoGpd-6FoSJgqAk81o2VKMWVJan5Jr4EQvy4iS-b5Q3gxx4aqGCVLWku77luxA5GOFN2Lg5bTi4TYkkWboI74RYEtxvZ/s1600/6-SAPUCKER-MARCH+2011.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOAeDEnXsv_Kv3jgMtEj69J8PPHYGWlQs05nPz2R-pXzrVT12hVoGpd-6FoSJgqAk81o2VKMWVJan5Jr4EQvy4iS-b5Q3gxx4aqGCVLWku77luxA5GOFN2Lg5bTi4TYkkWboI74RYEtxvZ/s400/6-SAPUCKER-MARCH+2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590699052039662354" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS3-ODaGAhsGqjRyrHSQieNkFRDK0kTY7Z4gZspNwO8t6sJ7G0o2W7oRk5QQ81sz51rT7HIks-X2e9ZF9YLqinQpP9_X-cI3FJOOVPHwD_RypH-XuOR9-NIOOd_VXLZlunCG-MZTvJ54xO/s1600/7-SAPSUCKER-MARCH+2011.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS3-ODaGAhsGqjRyrHSQieNkFRDK0kTY7Z4gZspNwO8t6sJ7G0o2W7oRk5QQ81sz51rT7HIks-X2e9ZF9YLqinQpP9_X-cI3FJOOVPHwD_RypH-XuOR9-NIOOd_VXLZlunCG-MZTvJ54xO/s400/7-SAPSUCKER-MARCH+2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590699043958120562" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLtaBajqHxYqluHDt6-xUZe0M_U0MXLH2Sg3BU1divYrRuaxV-X7Jtv0VjzCnjbowqVFPQ_vu2X3G_Xc3gRjqlMMgG_hVyvOnOIV9pek24TjgRU6f6zsDa6pt1Dm3t5FQK8tM9Kdyfqdkx/s1600/8-SAPSUCKER-MARCH+2011.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLtaBajqHxYqluHDt6-xUZe0M_U0MXLH2Sg3BU1divYrRuaxV-X7Jtv0VjzCnjbowqVFPQ_vu2X3G_Xc3gRjqlMMgG_hVyvOnOIV9pek24TjgRU6f6zsDa6pt1Dm3t5FQK8tM9Kdyfqdkx/s400/8-SAPSUCKER-MARCH+2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590699037071087826" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />For while most life is still dormant, the<br />the first hints are seen.<br /><br />In nutrient rich, shallow ponds exposed to the late winter rays of sun, non-green algae starts to grow and spread in March "warmth".<br /><br /><br />Branches, twigs and sprigs and even sub-surface variations alter degree-days and magnify the effect.<br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The snow spots in the pond seem to be remnants of goose prints made in winter snow. Slightly compressed snow, compacted and with more moisture, freezes harder and denser in the cold that follows a brief thaw.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Adding yet another discontinuity that is magnified as thaw sponges solid ice.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Surprising is the color as the winter begins to ebb. Sky blue sky appears</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> while even looking down, the fall leaf color brown and tinge of moss green portend the life abundant soon.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEEPzcBNhcorpTFdr2paMk8e8ivWYPcOHl8ooqUwur8MHnRlCUYUMf9hN4mqBG-mUUdVER63K680bKjVYoRRQLVc9el3Fej2gls6mZVCLVfBVh7TZj1RXxFWgmFCiFK_wADgZZV25kWNvw/s1600/11-SAPSUCKER-MARCH+2011.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 401px; height: 257px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEEPzcBNhcorpTFdr2paMk8e8ivWYPcOHl8ooqUwur8MHnRlCUYUMf9hN4mqBG-mUUdVER63K680bKjVYoRRQLVc9el3Fej2gls6mZVCLVfBVh7TZj1RXxFWgmFCiFK_wADgZZV25kWNvw/s400/11-SAPSUCKER-MARCH+2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590698605939768530" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:130%;">At Sapsucker Woods the trail </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4tULbx4b3RUneARJPO4ZvDIzL1NvojeNLi68gXwBxysKyurKdcuUgYgg2WJeU1cTKIP2DJ9yPXppzVMItN_r_sRImX6Vi1hEtkIfkW3wu1RrR_VI-vhT1WRxZHIeerYKoR7YEv2Xo4YOb/s1600/13-SAPSUCKER-MARCH+2011.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4tULbx4b3RUneARJPO4ZvDIzL1NvojeNLi68gXwBxysKyurKdcuUgYgg2WJeU1cTKIP2DJ9yPXppzVMItN_r_sRImX6Vi1hEtkIfkW3wu1RrR_VI-vhT1WRxZHIeerYKoR7YEv2Xo4YOb/s400/13-SAPSUCKER-MARCH+2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590698593356773746" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:130%;">crosses a road to a more wooded wetland that is so dramatically different from the large open ponded areas.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />A twig in ice not </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixv9bKmsC4QK6lbubtcjxxgJYOyL2uehCImrF0yfByi0eWzt588EZ8RYjssC0aIhAz9pGa4toVdiCl0e5e0VyceUWd7x8Nip9Z3U0zza7Guy_gI7vfjGOKX5Ng-jU8B2f3wjpUJ0DQ8hCY/s1600/12-SAPSUCKER-MARCH+2011.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixv9bKmsC4QK6lbubtcjxxgJYOyL2uehCImrF0yfByi0eWzt588EZ8RYjssC0aIhAz9pGa4toVdiCl0e5e0VyceUWd7x8Nip9Z3U0zza7Guy_gI7vfjGOKX5Ng-jU8B2f3wjpUJ0DQ8hCY/s400/12-SAPSUCKER-MARCH+2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590698598636472994" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:130%;">visited by much sun is still encased in gray ice and not surrounded by brown algae. Is pi R squared or calligraphy displayed?<br />The wooded ponding areas are less nutrient rich and gray is ice color.<br /><br /><br />Along the H. W. Saunders boardwalk these roots of a long fallen giant have always caught my attention. Many moments of searching and with much film exposed I have yet to capture the feeling that I have when I pass and stare and reflect.<br />The years that have passed since this tree has fallen, the character and beauty, a patina of moss and lichen and old age, pine needles and and fall leaves, is never fully captured.<br /><br />I guess the image is in my head and perhaps will stay put!<br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIrt4UlipmSW3cH2MnkOSB9X1CAE3sfoQBsny5RjrhpBCjQF-Wmh0PsTKjIihPOb-et2RU8eoZZk3nxSy5pnByVIBjFjm-DGMZu6QibmxVgKWdT2QgjjpM999pZHZINNa_VqGFmjPiNsTA/s1600/14-SAPSUCKER-MARCH+2011.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIrt4UlipmSW3cH2MnkOSB9X1CAE3sfoQBsny5RjrhpBCjQF-Wmh0PsTKjIihPOb-et2RU8eoZZk3nxSy5pnByVIBjFjm-DGMZu6QibmxVgKWdT2QgjjpM999pZHZINNa_VqGFmjPiNsTA/s400/14-SAPSUCKER-MARCH+2011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590698585106933842" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Patterns and swirls form as the ice slowly thins. Currents ever so slight enhance patterns and leave their mark to see. Soon all the ice will melt and patterns disappear.<br /><br />Each spring paints images, ever changing images<br />never just the same.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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The nights are very cold, sometimes in the teens F. and the day time highs barely freezing.<br /><br />In mid-March a glimmer of spring appeared but lasted only two days followed by almost 2 feet of snow one Sunday. But that is gone and as snow melt flowed in field and stream another chill arrived. This time only a few inches of snow fell and if it was November and not March it would be quite pretty.<br /><br />Since the sun shines more in spring than in early winter and is much higher in the sky, the falls are nicer to visit. The shadows do not dull the glens and falling water.<br /><br />This is the swimming hole waterfalls at Treman state park. The stream, Enfield Creek, is dammed in summer to provide a swimming pool. Early afternoon and the sun shines bright as the water shoots out of the narrow walls of the glen, exploding into a snow white cascade.<br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixNyXUPuspNuniRd2XKfdGpvbWhDreW_z4fO-uvB14PVeskNKq-ijf2h0doJKSM4F98JGnmptviJXJ_-Dtz8W04w0-frAiUzNeIkqrSN9aJ1sSU2iWxUiyI-03zZaUij5sSdaCxVjH3_Tk/s1600/BUTTERMILK+FALLS-2011-3.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixNyXUPuspNuniRd2XKfdGpvbWhDreW_z4fO-uvB14PVeskNKq-ijf2h0doJKSM4F98JGnmptviJXJ_-Dtz8W04w0-frAiUzNeIkqrSN9aJ1sSU2iWxUiyI-03zZaUij5sSdaCxVjH3_Tk/s400/BUTTERMILK+FALLS-2011-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589571198985296658" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">Next is Buttermilk Falls, at its base it too is dammed in summer to provide a swimming area in the warmer months.<br /><br />Rarely is a winter photograph of this falls interesting because it faces almost due north and therefore, when the sun is low on the horizon, it is almost constantly in the shade.<br /><br />But in late March the sun shines and brightens the stream bed and falls. And today a slight coating of snow makes the light more even, the shadows less harsh.<br /><br />The golden glow of afternoon sun beautifies the ornamental grass plantings near the park ticket booth.<br /><br />Soon the spring will return, but of course April is the cruelest month and is yet to be.<br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibUttK3-NiGkVck48A9x6-XzuQWwA7h2yJAARp-gjJjHp0-Kw2CRNSq-Lcn5tn8L38YdzS1vcmaSGQe9eey7sznmUoYa5M5GJfmllrlPZ8jTdHfb4KV1qxM6owZp3ltPolzJtH5Dxr0IoN/s1600/BUTTERMILK+FALLS-2011-2.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibUttK3-NiGkVck48A9x6-XzuQWwA7h2yJAARp-gjJjHp0-Kw2CRNSq-Lcn5tn8L38YdzS1vcmaSGQe9eey7sznmUoYa5M5GJfmllrlPZ8jTdHfb4KV1qxM6owZp3ltPolzJtH5Dxr0IoN/s400/BUTTERMILK+FALLS-2011-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589571198264916034" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOg1wI5hyphenhyphenBF2yxWX9RhbXNC3uvMgDVp4hKzTIizzqDyI4ypSD3CXOXvuNC2zc6ZlMd7otByKi54CkhdUAJtYXSkyVT5u_cwO4JL3tqVGqkKmS4HGVAYmxyUhVbIZIXbzhAnYce309NJQcw/s1600/BUTTERMILK+FALLS-2011-1.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOg1wI5hyphenhyphenBF2yxWX9RhbXNC3uvMgDVp4hKzTIizzqDyI4ypSD3CXOXvuNC2zc6ZlMd7otByKi54CkhdUAJtYXSkyVT5u_cwO4JL3tqVGqkKmS4HGVAYmxyUhVbIZIXbzhAnYce309NJQcw/s400/BUTTERMILK+FALLS-2011-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589571192099964946" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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