Early Morning Webs at Spring Pond Bog

Very Simple Story

Classic View of Indian Pass from Adirondak Loj Road

Rivermede Market in Keene Valley

... has plants, local vegetables, delicious homemade pies and lunch!

Haystack and McKenzie Mts. from Lake Flower in Saranac Lake

Adirondack Chairs, Rocker and Picnic Table Delivered

Definition of Lightweight: Hornbeck Boat and Fiat 500

Closed or Bottle Gentian

Gentiana andrewsii 

...is found in all its rich blue glory all over the Adirondacks right now. As this blogger has noted in past years, there was no film that she knew of that could capture this color. Cheers to digital!

The Wee-Keena Library in Wanakena

Packbasket at Wanakena in the Adirondacks

The View from Mt. Arab in Piercefield in the Adirondacks

Lake Lewey in the Adirondacks

St. Vincent de Paul at Sunset, after Magritte

Thornden Park Pool at Dusk

Stained Glass Window at Spa at 500

Teasel, detail

This gem is found growing at the Great Swamp Conservancy in Canastota. It originally grows in Europe and Asia, and so it is an "escape" here, transplanted in North America centuries ago. Teasel was and still is used to card wood. We saw it being done in Iceland. 

Common Name:	Wild Teasel
Scientific Name:	Dipsacus fullonum
Irish Name:	Leadán úcaire

Dried Grasses on the High Line, NYC, in March

...and now, nature's comb over!

Indian Lake Library III

OK Slip Falls in the Adirondacks

Indian Lake Library, Adirondacks

The sentiments expressed here about the importance of libraries are beautiful and priceless!

The Indian Lake Library has a gazebo with bug-free internet connectivity. In fact, the entire perimeter well into the parking lot is connected. This library, as do most, delivers the internet just as they do books as a media public service. 

Loons at Lewey Lake, Adirondacks

Scottish Highland Ox, One of a Team, at the Scottish Games

Tossing the Caber at the Scottish Games and Celtic Festival

Sunset Tonight from Thornden Park

The summer of 1988 and the gigantic fires at Yellowstone, 2000 miles west of here, one summer evening I could smell the smoke from our back yard in Oneida. It was unmistakable. A few days later my observation was confirmed by others.

Today I wonder if these brilliant colors are caused by the fires in California, 2800 miles west of here.

Upper Stillwater Reservoir

We spent a night at the Norridgewock Lodge at Beaver River. The next day we returned to the landing by water taxi. The day was spectacularly beautiful. We had gone up the day before on the sightseeing boat.

Beaver River is a hamlet served by no road. One gets there by way of a barge that will carry your car across to the Six Mile Road, or by water taxi, a sightseeing boat or your own power boat, canoe or kayak. By water it is about 8 miles from the landing.

You can also walk from Twitchell Lake on a well maintained trail.

In winter you can get to Beaver River by snow machine along abandoned railroad tracks or over the frozen reservoir.

Sea planes are also available from 6th Lake on the Fulton Chain at Inlet.

There are a week or two in the fall, and another week or two in the spring when the reservoir cannot be crossed by boat or snow machine. During that time the folks who live in Beaver River use various rigs converted to railroad track-worthy machines. It's unclear to me whether this is actually legal, but no one seems concerned.

Culverts Separating Norridgewock Lake from Stillwater Reservoir at Beaver River

Dragon Flies at Great Swamp Conservancy in Canastota

Characteristic	Dragonfly	Damselfly
Eyes	most have eyes that touch, or nearly touch, at the top of the head	eyes are clearly separated, usually appearing to each side of the head
Body	usually stocky	usually long and slender
Wing Shape	dissimilar wing pairs, with hind wings broader at the base	all wings similar in shape
Position at Rest	wings held open, horizontally or downwards	wings held closed, usually over abdomen
Discal Cell	divided into triangles	undivided, quadrilateral
Male Appendages	pair of superior anal appendages, single inferior appendage	two pairs of anal appendages
Female Appendages	most have vestigial ovipositors	functional ovipositors
Larvae	breathe through rectal tracheal gills; stocky bodies	breathe through caudal gills; slender bodies

Great Swamp Conservancy in Canastota

Boardwalk through the wet and dense bottomland swamp.

 Brilliant cardinal flower, Lobelia cardinalis, blooming in a rare spot of sunlight in the swamp.

Teasel at Great Swamp Conservancy in Canastota

Dipsacus fullonum

"If You Feed Me I May Bite": Rudy's in Oswego

Brenner Visits the Farm Where They Loved Him Back to Health