Under the Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Nearing Peak Bloom during Sakura Matsuri

There is No Time When the Adirondacks are Not Beautiful

Goldfinch Feeding in Cornus Mas

Handcrafted Terrazzo Drain Plug

This Year I Vow to See When the Beech Saplings Drop Last Year's Leaves

Dogspotting: I See You and I Know What You Did

Adirondacks: Raquette Lake Fishing Shanty, or...Learn to Count Like a Fisherman

Rap-Shaw at Stillwater: Water and Mergansers Return

Mural at Erie Canal Museum

SUNY School of Environmental Science and Forestry: Paper Manufacture

This year three students at ESF took the course on manufacturing paper. ESF has its own paper plant, the oldest in a university in the US. Our friend teaches the course, so we get to watch it in operation on the one day a year it operates. The students are given a piece of paper and asked to reproduce it chemically, and in color, texture and weight, which means precisely formulating the pulp.

Here is the link to ESF's paper engineering page. There is a video of the process, though I haven't found it yet. Maybe on YouTube?

The paper plant is a thing of beauty. As a latent engineer, I love this day! I would pay them to let me paint the machinery that sky blue.

Bloodroot at Beaver Lake Nature Center

Hawk Counters at Derby Hill

Lake Ontario Clear of Ice, from Derby Hill in Town of Mexico

Adirondacks: Juvenile Bald Eagles at Raquette Lake

Spring: Time to Study Glaciation in Miniature

Adirondacks: Yearling Fawn in Good Shape After an Extremely Cold, Snowy Winter

Saugerties Lighthouse in the Hudson, from the Train

Bear Mountain Bridge Crossing the Hudson, from the Train

NYC: Riding in the Front Car

NYC: Louis Sullivan Staircase from the Chicago Stock Exchange Building, Reinstalled at the Met

NYC: Buddhas at the Met

NYC: Underground Crows

Manhattan: Tall Buildings from Columbus Circle

Winter Aconite: Blooms Under the Snow!

Manhattan: The Chrysler Building from the High Line

Manhattan: Two Toynbee Tiles Spotted in Midtown

"Toynbee Tiles" and their lore came to my attention while we lived in St. Louis, where they were, at one time, numerous. I believe these are originals.

Googling the phenomenon will bring up lists of where they have been found, speculation as to the identity of "Toynbee", and some evidence that others, more recent, were not placed by the originator but by copycats.

I came across these, both at intersections, after several years of totally not thinking about them at all. I wasn't looking for them, at least not consciously.

Often they disappear not because of wear but when the city repaves the street or subterranean work requires digging up the pavement.

These each measure maybe 18 inches by 12 inches.

Manhattan: The High Line Understory, Early Spring

Manhattan: The New Whitney will be Accessible from the High Line

Manhattan: The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore

Lots of fun to see a live taping. The pain of securing an early place in line to pick up my reserved ticket and waiting in 20 degree weather is all but forgotten.

No photography after the program begins, so no photos of Larry Wilmore allowed.