local circle Fire charcoal with stone, Water, Air, Fire, Earth & Ethers

headwaters Shawangunk Kill

Greenville NY

facing NorthEasterly with Shawangunk Kill flow to confluence with Wallkill, Wallkill to confluence with Rondout and Rondout to confluence with Hudson, river that flows North and South...

8/6

Aquarius super Full Moon<>Sun/Leo Thursday Aug 11 9:37 pm EDT with 19' 21"

Sturgeon Moon

Greenville NY is in Orange County, East of Port Jervis where Shawangunk Kill headwaters emerge out of Southern end of Shawangunk Mountains and where settlers first came around 1750... the other Greenville NY is in Greene County, south of Albany NY...

"...From its source in Greenville, the Shawangunk flows steadily northeastward to Mill Pond, near Mount Hope, by which point it has already lost almost half its original elevation. ..."

"...In the early 1990s, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, when it was researching the fate of the former Galeville air base site (now Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge) found that the lower Shawangunk (from its mouth to Pine Bush) supports an unusually diverse plant and animal community for the region due to the absence of any serious impoundment along the upper river. It reported no less than six species of freshwater mussels, including the rare swollen wedge mussel, and 31 species of fish. Among the latter were the rare Notropis amoenus (comely shiner), Notropis stramineus (sand shiner), Percina caproedes (logperch), Lepomis auritis (redbreasted sunfish) and Noturus insignis (margined madtom).

The study found that the region supports the only known community of Diarrhena obovata (beakgrass) in the state. Other rare plants in the lower Shawangunk Kill include threadfoot on submerged ledges, sharp-winged monkeyflower, wingstem and redrooted flatsedge along the stream itself, with Davis' sedge, swamp agrimony, Aster vimeneus (small white aster) and violet bushclover joining the beakgrass in the flood plains.

Due to the minimal development (mostly agricultural) within much of its watershed, there is very little pollution. ..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawangunk_Kill

settlers who came to area were not happy where they were and were hope deprived, emotionally starved and they forcefully take control with Lenape peoples and lands... this energy with hopelessness with the settler immigrants shifts from the settlers to the Lenape, as with other tribal nations across the Americas, Australia, Africa, the East with being stripped of their human dignity, and hope... tragically it has gone on, over and over, without corrective address and healing...

∆   ∆   ∆

emerging freshness

Elements are Life

Love Peace CoCreativity...

art with Earth blog, charcoal, collaborative with Nature, eco-environmental land art, fractals, webh