White River Valley Near Stockbridge
Day: July 26, 2021💾
🖼️ Photos
Good Evening – July 26, 2021
Good evening! The Watkins Glen Pool closes now at six o’clock on weekdays. 🕕
I am really not digging that. 🏊🏻♂️ Because closing at six means I need to get out of the pool by 5:30 so I have time to shower and get changed. 🚿 And it’s still warm on a hot day at this point. Although sitting by Aunt Sarah’s Falls is quite nice and cool. 😎
Spent the bulk of my day at the swimming pool, really kind of lazy vacation day 🏖 during the dog days 🐶 of summer. Hiking and birding in the Catharine Creek Marsh and decided to take the trail to the falls. Once I get back to my truck it’s off to Tops and ice cream 🍧, followed by maybe Clute Park or maybe camp. Still haven’t had dinner yet, so I might not want to get back too late and I kind of want to watch for shooting stars 🌠 later on into the midnight hour of I have enough energy.
Still kind of hot evening. 🌇 Partly clear and 82 degrees at the Aunt Sarah’s Falls. There is a west-northwest breeze at 6 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 62 degrees.
Gentle Drop Into A Golden Pool
There are two pools like this at Goldmine Stream Falls, at the bottom of gentle falls. The pools aren't very deep -- maybe three feet or four in high water -- but provide refreshment on a hot day in a beautiful glen with great looking water.
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Gypsy Moths 🦋
This year, the gypsy moths are so bad in parts of the Finger Lakes National Forest. Earlier this summer they hatched out of their egg sacks that can be found on many of the trees, leaving the forest partially deforested and denuded. Fortunately, trees have a lot of energy stored in their sap and an ability to regrow leaves, which many have done but still look small and immature for mid to late summer.
Most healthy trees can survive a years gypsy moth attack and will go on quite fine a bit with stunted growth for the year. But they will heal. It’s much more of a menace to farmers and those raising trees as a crop, as year of stunted growth is a year of loss, land not producing what it should. And I’m not happy about the loss of shade for camping but ultimately what I can I do about it?