Yeah, sorry I’m not seeing the resemblance
Erin the Irish Bear – fairly useless
1.8 MW wind turbine, Breisgau, Germany. Wind provides about 25% of Germany’s energy production
Author: brandesd
What is a River? people on top of Mt Tammany
Looking west over the Delaware Water Gap toward PA from Mt Tammany
Braided streams in a rock outcrop on the trail
Love the patterns on this back-lit leaf. Autumn is a special time
Mississippi River near its headwaters in MN
Back in summer 2017 we stopped here on a roadtrip to the northern Rockies. This is along Rt 200 just west of Floodwood, MN. Between here and its headwaters at Lake Itasca the river winds around through lakes and woods.
I have been to Cape May, NJ many times where the Delaware Bay opens to the Atlantic, but I had never been all the way to the top of our Delaware River watershed. This summer I was in Oneonta NY to visit Hartwick College and I took the opportunity to find a small tributary stream in the headwaters. This is what it looked like.
After I made the coffee this morning I noticed the sky in the east starting to look pretty interesting so I went down to the bridge about a 1/2 mile from home and just sat for a while drinking it in (my coffee and the scene in front of me). As Thoreau wrote in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers at this very time of year, “he who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly dispair.”
Welcome river rats! This is where we will be posting our photo-essay materials.
Here is an early morning shot of the confluence of the Lehigh River (coming from the right) with the Delaware River less than a mile from campus. My commute from home takes me along the Delaware River and past this scene every day, and the mist coming off the water in front of the rising sun made me stop and marvel at the natural and unnatural beauty presented on this particular morning. Notice the dam on the right – this was built long ago to provide water to the head of the Delaware Canal, which was once a major shipping route to Philadelphia, bringing coal from eastern PA. Also seen is a railroad bridge – it was the much faster railroads that put the canal companies out of business in the 19th century. But before either one of these it was the rivers themselves that were the arteries of transportation and trade as well as a great source of food for native Americans and early colonialists. Why is Easton located here at “The Forks of the Delaware”? — its all about the rivers!