On my way down to the gym I spotted some steam rising out of the ground. The path that it took was almost like the river, it winded into the air, heavily affected by the wind. I’d highly suggest checking it out at night, it’s very pretty. Does anyone know why this forms?
Since the flooding of the Hudson River is the topic of my story map, I thought I’d share how during hurricane Sandy, the water from the Hudson river flooded into the subway. Because of the flooding the subway station itself turned into its own river.
As I was walking to class today I was looking at the bike lock structure and I noticed that then I looked at it from an angle it looked like a meandering river. A meandering river is when the current of the river erodes the bands of the side of a river giving it bends. Once this anomaly occurs it may lead to a river looking like the bike lock structure. Sometimes when a river forms this meandering look Oxbow lakes form. A Oxbow lake is formed when a s shaped river will straighten out forming bowed looking lakes where the river one was before it straighten out.
While walking back to my dorm over the weekend I noticed sights that reminded me rivers. The cracks on the road reminded me on the flow of water working it way down hill, the cracks are also caused by freezing water. Besides the cracks on the road I also noticed the vines growing on the tree to look very similar to rivers was well as the wind up and down the bark of the tree. 
My second favorite tree on campus, a Japanese Maple, resembles the branches of a river and its tributaries. The outermost branches are small and join together into bigger branches that eventually meet at the trunk. The tree looks especially good when wet, bringing out the dark colors and contrasting lines along the branches that also resembles a stream.
In front of South College, I saw a man-made path across the grass connecting the road and another sidewalk. This path was created because students used the shortest path possible to get from one point to another. Rivers follow their windy path that has been created over time by eroding rock and sediment, but every so often, the river will cut a new path that travels straight through a section of land instead of winding. It is as if the water is desperate to reach the ocean and decides to travel straight there, just as the students did.
This past weekend, I took a trip to Louisville, and shortly after my connecting flight in Detroit took off I snapped this picture, which reminded me of the way rivers spread out across a landscape. In the center, you can see the city of Detroit, but then you see all the roads and highways branching off of the city, similar to how a river or lake can have several small tributaries branching off of it.
New England Hydropower Co. has recently expressed its interest in creating long-term hydroelectric plants to collect energy from three dams in the Lehigh Valley. One of these dams is the Chain Dam in Easton. Many environmental groups are very concerned about this, making the claim that it has the potential to harm our rivers and wildlife. With the growing interest in removing dams, it’s a bit concerning to still see companies trying to use them as a source of energy.
Taking a picture of the Easton Dam at Scott Park. As you walk up to the water you can see fish at the bottom of the dam… interesting.
In continuing with the theme of seeing rivers in everyday objects, one morning I saw these streams made of frost. They connected and weaved almost like braided streams and even flowed into a large trunk stream.
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