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Aster and dew
The beginning of fall color – in a small way:
One of the glories of the fall – a pretty flower that fades quickly. A closeup like this hides the parts of teh flower that age fast.
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Back to the falls
I visited Ithaca again recently and returned to Enfield Glen and Lucifer Falls. Here’s another look at Lucifer Falls on a nice cloudy day:
It’s an extraordinary place. Besides the water, the rock strata and foliage are beautiful – the flowers in the foreground are boneset and Joe Pye Weed.
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Katydid
A closeup of a katydid – I think Oblong-winged katydid:
Taken at about 3x magnification. This is an upstate NY bug – I went back to Ithaca a few days back. Here in Mass, I’ve seen only juvenile katydids this season, not mature ones like this one.
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Lace
A Queen Anne’s lace flower, just opening:
They are plain, but my eye is drawn to the lines and curves.
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Bluet damselfly
A pond bluet (Azure bluet, I think) taken at a pond I’ve visited a lot this summer:
I wish there were more depth of field, but there’s a quality to this image I like. The pond meadow just was mowed, so it’s not going to be an interesting place to visit for a while. All the flowers and many bugs are gone, though a number of these bluets remain. There’s still a flock of visiting cedar waxwings in residence, though there are fewer berries to eat now.
Mowing has benefits – the area stays in early succession, doesn’t get grown over, there is more diversity. If only they had waited until fall!
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Clover
An extreme closeup of a clover bloom, take at about 3x magnification with minimum depth of field, for a soft look:
I’ve been away from blogging for a bit. I lost my main image store disk, performed an elaborate and geeky rescue, by mounting the messed up file system by hand with a hex editor. I had backup, but not for some recent files. Then I had to install new network storage and copy everything over to the new disks. I’m finally editing images again (whew).
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Queen Anne’s Lace
Just a common wildflower, but this cluster had an unusual globular shape, not the usual flat top:
Taken at the salt pond in Eastham at Cape Cod National Seashore – I just got back from a week at the Cape.
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Milkweed beetle
A favorite subject of mine is around again:
I’ve been seeing them for the last week or two, but there are lots of them now. I counted 15 in one small milkweed patch.
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Lucifer Falls
Lucifer Falls starts just a few feet away from the last cascade. It’s more than 100 feet, a tumble down the rocky gorge, not a vertical fall. This is the upper part of the falls, the vertical part. It continues down the rocks for some ways at an angle:
The light was much better in the last image – the gorge was in the shade, this is bright overcast light.
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Gorge above Lucifer Falls
Last week I made it back to Ithaca, NY, and visited a few waterfalls. I saw Taughannock Falls, a 130 foot vertical drop from a cliff into a wide rocky basin. The other waterfall site I made it to was Lucifer Falls, in the Upper Gorge area in Robert H Treman State Park. Enfield Creek flows through a narrow gorge 20 or 30 feet wide, making a series of cascades and waterfalls. This was a view of the gorge just upstream from Lucifer Falls:
There was a bridge across the creek that gave this view, high cliff walls above you. I love waterfalls, I can’t wait to get back up there later this summer. I’ll post an image of Lucifer Falls next.
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