expanding within the realm of depth...
stump saga...
charcoal from local circle fire with stump and Earth
Rosendale NY
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Sunday, April 29, 2018
weave with trickster with compassion...
local charcoal from local circle fires, stone, vegetation & Water & Earth cosmologies
Wallkill River
New Hampton NY
There have been several efforts in the late 20th and early 21st centuries to clean up the river.
At the turn of the century, a Wallkill River Task Force was formed, with representatives from both Ulster and Orange counties. From the 'Acknowledgements' of the "Wallkill River Watershed Conservation and Management Plan":
"A crucial development in the history of Wallkill Watershed protection efforts was the scheduling of a Wallkill River conference in 1998. Held at Orange County Community College and organized by the Orange County Land Trust (OCLT), this conference could be considered the birth of the Wallkill River Task Force (WRTF) – a ‘project’ of the OCLT. While some focus on this Watershed was already occurring amongst government agencies, the WRTF created a non-governmental group that actively sought the volunteer participation of farmers, business people and other ‘ordinary’ citizens, in addition to government and conservation agency employees, to provide for broad-based leadership in protecting the Wallkill River and its watershed lands."
One result of that Task Force's work was the drafting of a conservation and management plan.[6]Riverkeeper's water-quality program[7] has been testing samples at many places along the river with the help of citizen-scientists.[8]
In April 2015, a conference called "The Future of the Wallkill River" was held at SUNY New Paltz. Nearly two hundred people attended and in the weeks that followed the Wallkill River Watershed Alliance was founded.
In late summer 2016, the Wallkill River Watershed Alliance, along with Riverkeeper, documented a potentially toxic large blue-green algae bloom, prompting the two groups to warn that could be harmful to people, dogs or other pets.[9] After the samples were taken from the River, New York's Department of Environmental Conservation confirmed a Harmful Algae bloom with High Levels of Toxins.[10][11] Riverkeeper responded by calling on government officials to define the causes of the algae.[12]
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallkill_River
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Saturday, April 28, 2018
Friday, April 27, 2018
stone scale with equanimity...
local charcoal from local circle fires, stone, vegetation & Water & Earth cosmologies
Wallkill River
Middletown NY
"Due to its location between other settlements, residents adopted the name of Middletown ... when the community became a village in 1848. The village was incorporated as a city in 1888."
"Middletown grew through the 19th century, stimulated by construction of the Erie Railroad and the New York, Ontario and Western Railroad, (among others). The city was industrialized, developing factories for a number of industries, such as shoe, lawnmower blade, and furniture. These did well through the World War II era.
Due to industrial restructuring most of these businesses had closed by the 1960s. In 1968, Middletown annexed the adjacent Village of Amchir. In the 1970s the economy of Middletown and surrounding communities suffered additional blows due to the closing of a large Ford Motor Company plant in Mahwah NJ, and the downsizing of IBM operations in the area." ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middletown,_Orange_County,_New_York
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Thursday, April 26, 2018
our collective unconscious with patient determination...
local charcoal from local circle fires, stone, vegetation & Water & Earth cosmologies
Wallkill River
Pine Island NY
"Pine Island is known for its black dirt. This rich soil is the result of constant flooding during the retreat of glaciers during the last ice age, about 12,000 years ago. The "muck," as it was called, plastered shallow lakes that today make up the fields, or "flats." Much the same as a peat bog, these areas are known for their prolific fossil production, particularly those of ancient mastodons. Into the 1800s the swamps still lingered, surrounding what is greater Pine Island.[1] It was then that these lakes were first drained to be utilized for their superior growing capabilities. The Wallkill River winds through this region and drops a mere 11 feet. When flooded, small islands emerged, Pine Island being the principal one.
When locals first tried to alter the route of the river, obstacles lay in river bed obstructions and man-made dams for the purpose of water-powered mills. Farmers wanting to eliminate the constant threat of flood could not afford to pay the local mill owner to lower his dam, so they dug a series of ditches and canals to drain the "Drowned Lands."[2]
Between 1829 and the turn of the century a series of votes, rulings, arrests, injunctions, dam destructions and repairs ensued during what became known as the Muskrat (dam destroyers) and Beaver (dam builders) War.[3]
In the early 1900s, German, Polish and Dutch immigrants did the work of draining the swamp bogs with a network of ditches. These efforts exposed "a sulfur and nitrogen-rich black soil that in some places is 30 feet deep." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Island,_New_York
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018
hectic between here and there...
local charcoal from local circle fires, stone, vegetation & Water & Earth cosmologies
Wallkill River
Wallkill River National Wetlands Refuge
Lafayette Township NJ
Wallkill River National Wetlands Refuge with Northwestern New Jersey is the headwaters... further North conjoining Esopus River, and then Hudson River with Kingston NY... and South to NYC and on to the Atlantic Ocean Gulf Stream... this flow North and curving back around flowing South is loosely a Water Ω line... Geomantic; the CT shoreline and Cape Cod, an inverted Earth Omega symbol, is directly East of this location...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2018
platform with clarity...
local charcoal from local circle fires, stone, vegetation & Water & Earth cosmologies
Wallkill River
Walden NY
North flowing from Sussex New Jersey Wallkill River here in Walden NY,... further North conjoining Esopus River, and then Hudson River with Kingston NY... and South to NYC and on to the Atlantic Ocean Gulf Stream... this flow North and curving back around flowing South is loosely a Water Ω line...
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Monday, April 23, 2018
markings with stone where currents cleanse...
local charcoal from local circle fires, stone, vegetation & Water & Earth cosmologies
Wallkill River
Wallkill NY
North flowing from Sussex New Jersey Wallkill River here in Shawangunk NY,... further North conjoining Esopus River, and then Hudson River with Kingston NY... and South to NYC and on to the Atlantic Ocean Gulf Stream... this flow North and curving back around flowing South is loosely a Water Ω line...
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Sunday, April 22, 2018
high Spring Waters reorient...
local charcoal from local circle fires, stone, vegetation & Water & Earth cosmologies
Wallkill River
Shawangunk NY
North flowing from Sussex New Jersey Wallkill River here in Shawangunk NY,... further North conjoining Esopus River, and then Hudson River with Kingston NY... and South to NYC and on to the Atlantic Ocean Gulf Stream... this flow North and curving back around flowing South is loosely a Water Ω line...
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Water is Life
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Saturday, April 21, 2018
cleansing Spring Waters/emotions carry debris toward the great Oceans...
local charcoal from local circle fires, stone, vegetation & Water & Earth cosmologies
Shawangunk Kill
Gardiner NY
Shawangunk Kill flows off the Southern Shawangunk Mountains conjoining North flowing Wallkill River here in Gardiner NY,... further North conjoining Esopus River, and then Hudson River with Kingston NY... and South to NYC and on to the Atlantic Ocean Gulf Stream... this flow North and curving back around flowing South is loosely a Water Ω line...
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Water is Life
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