Messing
About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:
Archive of Erie Canal Journal entries for 2003: 28 December
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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.
Canal
-- drained but not tiresome
28
December 03: We
wanted to see the canal for a last photo op of the
year 2003, and being blessed with a sunny, blue-sky
day in the 60s, we chose Brockport in late afternoon.
I
didn't know what to expect, but the last thing I
would have expected is what I found. A foot or two
of water in the bottom of the winter-drained canal
to reflect the strong shapes on the bank in mirror
image.
Late
afternoon sun lights up the canal, drained of all but
a foot or two of water. |
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Strong
diagonals mark pic of the downstream bridge in Brockport. |
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A
little water and a lot of exposed bank just upstream
from the upper bridge over the canal in Brockport. |
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This
brick beauty towers over -- and under -- the upper bridge
at Brockport. |
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The
lower bridge tower and its brother reflect the afternoon
sun. |
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A
block in from the canal, this urban artifact still sells
soap in story-high letters on an old brick building. |
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"Ivory
Soap ... It Floats ... Lathers freely ... Rinses readily."
Amen. |
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