Messing
About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:
Archive of Erie Canal Journal entries for 2004: 02 September
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One
of our favorite destinations is the Erie Canal, which originally
began in downtown Buffalo, and later when the canal was widened
and renamed the Erie Canal Barge Canal, the canal began, and
still begins, at North Tonawanda on the Niagara River where
Tonawanda Creek empties into the river.
We have biked in five-mile bites from Lockport to Brockport,
and we've rowed a time or two, too.
On
the canal, pink with pleasure
02
September 04: The
Reverend and I took an evening excursion
in the
Harmonica on the Erie Canal,
looking for a fine sunset.
The
sunset was understated but still left us pink with pleasure.
We saw a lot of extremely big
boats, for the first time this summer. On all of our other
trips, we've had the canal to ourselves, mostly.
And
lots of dogs with their humans exercising on the Towpath.
Two
gulls at Widewater in Lockport, on the Erie Canal, acting
more like a brace of ducks. |
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Bird
on a wire. |
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Same
bird, different angle. |
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Big
boats in company roil their way down the canal. |
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This
is partly camera magic, but it sure is looking like fall
here, too. |
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Will
it fit? Yes, it did. |
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Pinks
ranging toward orange began to pop into view as the sun
set. |
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Birds
in the dead branches. |
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And
then there were eight |
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Two
walkers and three huskies. |
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A
different sort of subtle sunset, but still a wonder and
a joy. |
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Tree
and its shadow, in the pink and blue of the setting sun. |
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Pink,
and getting pinker. |
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