Messing
About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:
Archive of Erie Canal Journal entries: 23 July 06 |
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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.
Ready
to rumble
23
July 06: The
Reverend and I got up at 4 a.m.
to go out on the canal, but the thunder and lightning
drove us back to bed. Sunday afternoon, despite
billowing cumulus clouds, we went on up and launched
at Albion.
We
were on the edge of a nasty weather system but only
got light rain, which was miserable enough. I had
wanted to go as far as Presbyterian Pond but turned
back at Knowlesville.
The
rain stopped and we anchored to await the sunset,
which was very good.
I
can't imagine taking a mere sunset pic without a mirror
image in water. The canal traffics in this effect. |
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It's
like an ink-blot test. ... what do you see? |
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Light
effect and its mirror image make a chevron or two. |
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Sun
and its shadow, sky and water. |
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I
was so intent on the colors in the water that I almost
forgot to look at the sky, which was a riot of color. |
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I
like the strong diagonal elements in this photo, and the
blazing sun ball. |
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Lord
have mercy! |
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&
Perkins
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