suns along the Mohawk

 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”]

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   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.

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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

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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 .

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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) –

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– 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.