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) –
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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.
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.
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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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– Flood stage (223′) reached 8 PM Friday; down to 219′ by midnight –
– ice jams and fog at Riverside Park (7 AM Friday March 11) –
[Friday morning, March 11] It’s not yet the ides of March, but we already need to watch our backs along the Stockade section of the Mohawk, as snow-melt and rain fill the River and its tributaries and bring our annual flood watch. As long as the River lets me get up-close, I plan to monitor the situation throughout the weekend, watching for ice jams and checking the level of the River. The slideshow and gallery below will be updated as I get new photos.
As always, click on the gallery photos for a larger version and scroll over a picture for its description. Scroll down our homepage for ice jam photo sessions earlier this week, and links to images from this time last year.
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Posted in flooding/ice floes-jams, river seasons
The blue skies lured me out for another look at Riverside Park and the ice jams along the Mohawk River around 3:30 PM today (Monday, March 7, 2011). Here are the results in a Slideshow and then a Gallery — with each photo untouched by any editing [for more ice jam photos from earlier today see “ice jamming along the Mohawk;” update (Fri., March 11): for flood watch coverage see our “weekend river watch along the Mohawk” and “waiting for sunset” ]:
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Posted in flooding/ice floes-jams, river seasons
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With so much rain and melting over the weekend, and snow overnight on Sunday, ice jams and rising waters are expected along the Mohawk. Below are photos of the unfolding events seen from Riverside Park and also the end of Cucumber Alley. Despite some dramatic ice jam displays along the River, today’s frigid temperatures and snowfall appear to have postponed any flooding.
Larger versions of photos seen in the Slideshow can be viewed by clicking on the images in the Gallery below; scroll over the Gallery photos for descriptions of the pictures.
Here are representative photos showing conditions at 5 PM Sunday and during the snowstorm at 8 AM Monday (click on each for a larger version):
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– new photos will be added periodically –
– Late afternoon blue skies earned a separate webpost: see “blue skies and ice jams” (March 7, 2011); update (Fri., March 11) see our flood watch coverage at “weekend river watch along the Mohawk.”
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– Click on photos in the Gallery below for a larger version and scroll over them for a description:
Posted in flooding/ice floes-jams, river seasons
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