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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 29, 2011 14:19:07 GMT -5
This was a thread from Lifestyles where I posted favorite photos from my area of the country - The Finger Lakes. And so I decided I wanted to keep on doing so. The Finger Lakes region:
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 29, 2011 14:28:05 GMT -5
'Ontario Pathways" Water was still flowing at Ontario Pathways in Phelps. Photo by Mary Laude "Watkins Glen Jungle " Despite the recent dry weather, the gorge at Watkins Glen State Park remains lush and green. Photo by Cari Dresser. "Colorful Start To Thursday" A colorful sunrise as seen from the shores of Dresden on Seneca Lake. Photo by Jack McAllister. "Sunrise Over Cayuga Lake" The sun rises over Cayuga Lake as seen from Lower Lake Road in Seneca Falls to start the day around 6:30 am. Photo by Eileen Carey Santipadri. I live halfway between these two lakes, about 7 miles from each.
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Post by Forever Sunshine on Jul 29, 2011 14:41:54 GMT -5
Peg, those pics are beautiful. What a gorgeous area you live in. I've been to Watkins Glen several times. I love it there.
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 29, 2011 14:43:41 GMT -5
"Sundown Geneva" The sun sets over Geneva as seen from Seneca Lake as the newly constructed wind turbines at Zotos sit idle. Photo by Rachel Burkholder. "Black Swallowtail" This beautiful black swallowtail butterfly was seen in Romulus. Photo by Louann Lerch. "Hollyhock Fence" Full summer blooming hollyhocks by a picket fence along Lake Rd. near Pultneyville. Photo by Eileen Carey Santipadri. "Black Swallowtail" This black swallowtail butterfly lands softly on a flower in Seneca Falls. Photo by Judy Austic "Sunset Ontario " The sun sets over Lake Ontario at Irondequoit Bay. Photo by Eileen Carey Santipadri. Lake Ontario is the easternmost of the Great Lakes and about 30 miles north of where I live.
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Post by Forever Sunshine on Jul 29, 2011 14:47:35 GMT -5
I took a pic of a black swallow tail when I was in NY a few years back. I won a prize for it when I entered in a contest.
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 29, 2011 15:04:01 GMT -5
"Belhurst Castle from Seneca Lake" The Belhurst Castle as seen from the waters on the north end of Seneca Lake in Geneva. Photo by David Brockway. "Musselman Swimmers" Spectators line the Seneca Lake shoreline as competitors in one of the Saturday races at the Musselman Triathlon in Geneva swim past. My 15-y-old grandson (swims on his high school team) was one of the competitors and came in the top 10. Photo by David Brockway. "Pristine Monarch" This pristine monarch was snacking on the abundant milkweed plants in Ontario, NY. Photo by Laurie Dirkx, www.lauriedirkx.com. "Lavender Festival in Skaneateles" The fields were abundant with purple flowers at the Finger Lakes Lavender Festival in Skaneateles. Photo by Mike Sargent "Buck in Velvet" This buck with his early season velvet antlers was spotted just before dark along route 96A in Ovid. Photo by Darren Burkholder
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 29, 2011 15:05:59 GMT -5
Forever, feel free to post pictures here also.
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 29, 2011 15:13:51 GMT -5
"Sodus Swan" This swan, with the babies tucked close to mom, were out for a stroll along Sodus Bay July 4th. Photo by Mary Sutterby. "Hiding Out" Scat the cat thinks no one can see her on Rockefeller Road in Phelps. Photo by Shelly Lannon. "Black Lab Fishing" Dutch, a four-year-old black lab, goes fishing for his dinner on the eastern shore of Seneca Lake in Varick Photo by Kimberly Casasanta. "Wary..." But friendly... This juvenile was just curious to see what the photographer was up to in Rush, NY. Photo by Aaron Winters.
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Post by susala on Jul 29, 2011 16:34:11 GMT -5
I'm so glad that you decided to move this thread, Peg. I wonder how the photographer got so close to the fox.
My Vancouver pictures are all on MySpace. I really didn't know what I was doing at the time and I didn't keep a memory chip or have them printed out. I moved some of them to my hard drive but it's a tedious process. Of course, none of them are as good as the one's you've posted but they bring up good memories. I'll try to print some of them here.
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Post by Flying Horse on Jul 30, 2011 1:13:31 GMT -5
My Vancouver pictures are all on MySpace. I really didn't know what I was doing at the time and I didn't keep a memory chip or have them printed out. I moved some of them to my hard drive but it's a tedious process. Of course, none of them are as good as the one's you've posted but they bring up good memories. I'll try to print some of them here. sus- -please do. I would like the thread to be used by anyone to post favorite photos on.
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 1, 2011 9:00:13 GMT -5
" High Falutin' " A red squirrel was seen making a meal of these spruce cones high atop a blue spruce tree in Branchport, NY. It looked more like he was playing a flute than enjoying dinner! Photo by Roger Bailey. " Great Swallowtail " This great swallowtail butterfly landed for a brief moment in Clifton Springs, NY. Photo by Shelly Lannon. " Grapes on the Vine " The grapes are progressing nicely on the vines as seen along the east side of Seneca Lake at Silver Thread Vineyards. Photo by Tammy Brockway.
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Post by susala on Aug 1, 2011 10:02:13 GMT -5
Does anyone remember having a grape arbor in the back yard? We had one at the house where I grew up. It had purple (I can't remember the name) and catawba grapes. There was a brick floor and it was the coolest place around on a day like this. When I didn't go the library for the air conditioning, I hung around in the grape arbor, eating grapes and reading. Grape arbors really were used a "cool houses" for people in pre-AC days. I wish that I had a picture of it.
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 1, 2011 11:21:15 GMT -5
Ah yes, our next door neighbor ( with children) had a grape arbor. And the dark grapes are concord. We used to sit under the grapes when they became ripe and gorge ourselves on the sweet fruit. ah those lovely warm days of summer vacations.
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Post by hawkeyefan on Aug 2, 2011 20:52:45 GMT -5
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Post by Forever Sunshine on Aug 2, 2011 21:01:06 GMT -5
Does anyone remember having a grape arbor in the back yard? We had one at the house where I grew up. It had purple (I can't remember the name) and catawba grapes. There was a brick floor and it was the coolest place around on a day like this. When I didn't go the library for the air conditioning, I hung around in the grape arbor, eating grapes and reading. Grape arbors really were used a "cool houses" for people in pre-AC days. I wish that I had a picture of it. The neighbor out our back door had concord grapes growing in her back yard. We loved being in there as kids. Now, it's a Burger King!
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 2, 2011 22:00:36 GMT -5
" Canal Cruisin' " This canal cruiser heads through the locks on Oak Island in Waterloo. Photo by Bill Davis. About 3 miles east of where I live on the Seneca-Cayuga Lake Canal. "Watkins Glen is Gorge-ous " One of the many waterfalls at the famous gorge at Watkins Glen. Photo by Bill Davis. "Bust Unveiled in Seneca Falls " Village of Seneca Falls Mayor Diana Smith, the first woman mayor to be elected in the birthplace of women's rights, speaks to those in attendance at an unveiling of a bust created by sculptor Richard Musso in her honor on the Frank Ludovico sculpture trail along the canal in Seneca Falls. Photo by Linda Solan. "Butterfly in the Shade " This butterfly finds some shade in the flowers of a garden in Tyre. Photo by Mary Sutterby.
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Post by Forever Sunshine on Aug 2, 2011 22:11:37 GMT -5
The bog trail at Black Moshannon State Park
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Post by Forever Sunshine on Aug 2, 2011 22:19:52 GMT -5
Boulder Field is a small piece of a landscape left over from the last ice advance. About 15,000 years ago, this type of landscape was common throughout Pennsylvania and the northern part of North America. Since that time the climate has changed and most boulder fields have disappeared. Only in a few places do they still remain, and Hickory Run State Park has one! The field is a jumbled assortment of loosely packed boulders which range in size from 15 feet to several inches in length. The field is 400 feet wide, 1,800 feet long, 12 feet deep and comprising about 30 acres of land.
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Post by Forever Sunshine on Aug 2, 2011 22:22:49 GMT -5
Sunset at Tuscarora State Park.
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 2, 2011 23:12:09 GMT -5
FS--the Finger Lakes were created by the ice age and were famous for cobblestones. The action of the retreating glaciers made these fairly uniform sized rounded stones that the masons who built the Erie Canal used to build homes throughout this area. Cobblestone house built for Welcome Herendeen, 1832, 4998 Shortsville Road Farmington, Ontario County, New York The above photo shows details of the construction of a cobblestone house nearly identical to Welcome Herendeen's house.
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