Magnolia blossoms make a fine complement to blooming forsythia (or vice versa). Below, after a slideshow of photos taken today in the Stockade, you will find a gallery that includes each photo; click on each photo in the Gallery for a larger version, and scroll over it for a description.
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The Gallery below includes each of the slideshow photos (click on each photo for a larger version).
Posted in Stockade Views
A second warm day in a row, coupled with a few minutes now and then of sunshine, brought blossoms to every corner of the Stockade. This slide show represents several excursions around the neighborhood throughout the day and early evening, with an emphasis on cherry blossoms. [for more Stockade blossoms, see Tuesday’s posting “cherry blossom Society” and “forsythia Thursday“, along with “Lawrence and the pear tree” and “cherry blossom farewell”]
Posted in Stockade Views
. . . Our first sunny day with blossoming trees deserved to be memorialized. So, I headed up my block and snapped some photos at and around 32 Washington Ave., the Schenectady County Historical Society. Neither the cherry blossom trees nor the magnolia trees are fully in bloom, but they are already lovely, as you can see in this slideshow. All photos were taken Tuesday afternoon, April 26, 2011. As the blossoms mature this week across the Stockade neighborhood, I’ll be posting more photos at this site.
Click on the images in the Gallery below for a larger version. [follow-up (8:30 PM): After the Gallery, you’ll find photos showing the purple cherry blossom hues brought out by the light near sunset.]
Posted in cherry blossoms, Stockade Views | Tags: Stockade cherry blossoms
Sylvie Briber has graciously chosen to put eleven photos that have appeared here at Suns Along the Mohawk on the back cover of the May 2011 Stockade Spy, the newsletter of the Stockade Association. After the slideshow is a Gallery with each photo.
The Gallery below contains each of the photos selected for the May Spy. Click on an image for a larger version and scroll over it for a description. [You can use this short link to refer to this weblog post: http://tinyurl.com/MaySpyPhotos%5D
Posted in Stockade Views
Sunday morning April 3, 2011, my Stockade neighbors discovered a rash of graffiti cutting a path down N. College St. and then up Green St. to N. Ferry, and then west on Union St. to S. Church St. By my count, fourteen properties had been tagged. Below is a slideshow with more than two dozen photographs of the graffiti.
update (20Feb2013): click for more Union St. tagging . 
Each Slideshow photo appears in the photo gallery below.
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Click on each Gallery photo below for a larger version and scroll over it for a description.
Posted in Stockade Views
Despite a woefully shaky practice shoot the evening before, I recklessly went out last night without a tripod to take pictures of the so-called Super Full Moon* in the eastern sky, and then again this morning as it was setting in the west. Clouds, plus bad timing and angles, provided even more frustrations. The result was a batch of photos with mostly egg-shaped, double, blurry or unidentifiable full moons. Nonetheless, I did get relatively lucky a few times and the results are shown below.
* The biggest and brightest “perigee” full moon in 18 years. Click for more info from NASA.
– the Super Full Moon setting behind Gateway Landing around 7 AM Sunday (March 20, 2011) –
– click on a photo for a larger version and scroll on it for a description –
– a Stockade legend checks out the Super Full Moon –
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– two views from Washington Avenue – looking east on Saturday evening (L) and west on Sunday morning –
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– a morning view from the end of Cucumber Alley –
In 18 years, I should have acquired a tripod (and a walker) to assist my next Super Full Moon photo shoot. Of course, I can’t promise to still have an active weblog.
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update (April 8, 2020): Yep, “Suns along the Mohawk” is still active,” even if I am slowing down. Our posting on the 2020 Supermoon features more subtle images, due to clouds.
Posted in Stockade Views
– photo taken at the end of Washington Ave. along the Mohawk – March 2008 –
Brutus and Caesar, with an assist from William Shakespeare, gave the Ides of March a bad reputation — with connotations of impending doom or betrayal by a friend still lingering two millennia later. Around the Stockade, the River can turn from friend to vandal this time of year. And, the melted snow perennially reveals the winter crime-sprees of our pooper-scooper scofflaws.
But, mid-March can also bring wondrous sights, like last week’s ice floes, and the first real promise of spring. With the Equinox just a few days away, the longer days and added sunlight also brighten a lot of moods. I hope the Stockade’s sunny 2011 Ides of March was tranquil and hopeful at your home.
Posted in river seasons
During this week of ice floes and rising waters along the Mohawk, some of my favorite images came as I was waiting impatiently last night (Friday) in Riverside Park for sunset to arrive, with its promise of pink and orange ice jams and snowmelt puddles. For me, the pre-sunset light proved more alluring than sunset itself.
. click on a photo for a larger version; scroll over it for a description.
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– click for more 2011 ice jam and flood-watch photos –
p.s. On the other hand, sunset had its charms, too:
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