Colors on the Tree
Autumn afternoon paddling along the East Canada Creek 🍁
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Open Topograhpy – Infrastrucutre for Topographic Data
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September 22, 2021 – Looking Ahead This Week
The next few days will be quite rainy ☔ but then sunshine returns for the weekend ☀
Autumn seems to have definitely arrived although today certainly is fairly mild. I am thinking about staying in town this weekend and maybe going up to Thacher Park one last time before the summer nature bus service is done.
| This Afternoon. Feels like … September 1st. |
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A chance of showers. Partly sunny.
South wind around 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
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79 degrees | 67 max dew point | 6:50 sunset |
| Tonight. Muggy ! |
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A chance of showers, mainly after 11pm. Mostly cloudy.
Southeast wind around 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
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68 degrees | 68 max dew point | 6:43 sunrise |
| Thursday. Feels like … September 1st. |
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A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy.
Southeast wind 9 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
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79 degrees | 69 max dew point | 6:50 sunset |
| Thursday Night. Muggy ! |
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Showers. Low around 65. Southeast wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
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65 degrees | 68 max dew point | 6:45 sunrise |
| Friday. Feels like … September 24th. |
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Showers likely, mainly before 10am. Mostly cloudy.
South wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
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71 degrees | 65 max dew point | 6:48 sunset |
| Friday Night. Feels like … September 14th. |
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A slight chance of showers before 2am. Partly cloudy.
Chance of precipitation is 20%.
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53 degrees | 6:46 sunrise |
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| Saturday. Feels like … September 24th. |
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Mostly sunny.
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71 degrees | 57 max dew point | 6:47 sunset |
| Saturday Night. Feels like … September 12th. |
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Partly cloudy.
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54 degrees | 6:47 sunrise |
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| Sunday. Feels like … September 24th. |
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A chance of showers after 2pm. Mostly sunny.
Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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71 degrees | 54 max dew point | 6:45 sunset |
| Sunday Night. Feels like … September 17th. |
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A chance of showers before 8pm. Partly cloudy.
Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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52 degrees | 6:48 sunrise |
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| Monday. Feels like … September 21st. |
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Mostly sunny.
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72 degrees | 53 max dew point | 6:43 sunset |
| Monday Night. Feels like … September 17th. |
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Partly cloudy.
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52 degrees | 6:49 sunrise |
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| Tuesday. Feels like … September 21st. |
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A chance of showers. Mostly sunny.
Chance of precipitation is 30%.
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72 degrees | 57 max dew point | 6:41 sunset |
The Preservation Battle of Grand Central
The former First Lady was there to illuminate the plight of the Beaux Arts railway station that once dazzled New Yorkers and was, upon its opening in 1913, considered one of the city’s greatest wonders. Intended by developers to dwarf the nearby Penn Station, Grand Central Terminal cost nearly $160,000,000 (more than $4 billion today) to construct and was a front-page story in the local papers for weeks leading up to opening day. As dependence on rail travel diminished in the mid-20th century, Grand Central’s relevance too was questioned, and in 1963, the top of the station became the base for the tower known as the Pan-Am building, named after the airline headquartered there.
In 1975 a plot was hatched to dwarf the Pan-Am building with an even larger structure designed by famed Modern architect Marcel Breuer, but there was a problem: the sting of Penn Station’s demolition in 1964 was still fresh in the minds of many New Yorkers. In the aftermath of that legendary building’s destruction, Grand Central had been designated a New York City Landmark under a new law that gave the city the power to protect buildings it deemed worthy. When plans for the Breuer addition were presented to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the response from officials was that the tower was essentially an “aesthetic joke.”
While few doubted the significance of Grand Central, the terminal’s owners took issue with the law itself—how, they wondered, could it constitute anything other than an unreasonable violation of their rights as property owners? Preservationists like Onassis, working with groups like the Municipal Art Society, continued to insist that saving Grand Central and buildings like it wasn’t a mere real estate matter, but an issue of public good. On June 26, 1978, the United States Supreme Court agreed with them in Penn Central Transportation Co. vs. New York City, not just in regards to Grand Central but in the spirit of the Landmarks law itself, with Justice William Brennan writing that to rule in favor of the building’s owners would “invalidate not just New You City’s law, but all comparable landmark legislation elsewhere in the nation.”
Good Morning – September 22, 2021
Good morning! Happy First Day of Autumn ! 🍂
Can you believe it’s autumn already? I can’t but then again I’ve spent the past four days up north in the Adirondacks, and certainly the second half of the weekend up there was a bit chilly early in the mornings. Plus, you really notice how short the days are up camping — it was getting dark by around 7 PM most nights up north. They lose daylight a bit faster then back here in Albany, but even here the evenings are dark.
Rain and 67 degrees, catching the bus downtown on Delaware Ave. ☔ There is a south-southeast breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 66 degrees. The skies will clear Friday around noontime — although we might have a some breaks of sun this afternoon — the best weather is being saved for the weekend.
It was a nice weekend up north, only a little bit of rain on Saturday afternoon, a good downpour for sure 💦 but most of the weekend was quite sunny, although after Saturday it was a fair bit cooler. But I got some good sunshine and time on the tube ⭕ floating down the East Canada Creek and did a fair amount of kayaking too, 🛶 and fishing. 🎣 Hike back to Goldmine Stream Falls, did some reading and lot of pondering about the world around me. And as I didn’t have cell service, 📴 I stayed off social media and really enjoyed the quiet for the weekend.
I didn’t sleep very well last night 😴 and this morning woke up kind of stuffy and sore. I think it’s just the weather and getting back to work in the routine, but I almost thought about calling in sick today, but that’s kind of difficult to do right after a vacation. Yesterday I also felt a bit off, but maybe it’s nothing or maybe it’s COVID-19. But it’s certainly not serious, and I’m vaccinated. Sometimes it’s just tough to get back to work. 👃 The truth is I kind of feel so shitty right now, but I’m dragging my butt to work. I’ll sleep more tonight I guess.
I skipped my morning walk, 🏃♀️ but continued working on putting away my clothes from the wash yesterday 👕 some of which were still drying this morning on various hanging locations around my apartment. I also did a bit of cleaning in the kitchen and also cleaned out the coolers. 💧 It was raining too hard to start out the morning walk, although by the time I caught the bus, things that slowed down a lot.
I do need to go shopping after work tonight I’m afraid, 🏪 as there is a lot of miscellaneous stuff I am low on, especially lunch food for at work — but generally my pantry is more bare then I would like. I don’t know if I feel like going all the way to Walmart, I might instead just do a quick drive over to Price Chopper or Shoprite after work. Gets dark early this time of year, but it’s not that far.
My revised West Virginia trip 🍂
My revised West Virginia trip 🍂
I am now thinking about heading down to West Virginia on Saturday October 23rd thru November 2nd. I would have to take off six days from work but I get a free day – November 2nd Election Day off out of the deal. This would buy me two more days in West Virginia, as I could leave on November 1st, overnight in Pennsylvania and drive the remainder home on November 2nd.
The leaves are certain to be past peak in the high country but if I go down to Camp Run Fort Seybert and then down to Southern West Virginia to the New River Gorge they might be close to peak. It’s still early enough that ice and snow would be fairly rare and except for the last two days coming home I wouldn’t yet he dealing with the time change. Plus I would be in the National Quiet Zone, far away from all the political silliness.
