The #backyard #garden is coming alive with Spring growth. Early #flowers have appeared and lots of perennials are returning. The #blackberry bramble, #strawberry patch, and #pumpkin patch are all looking great. And we've been enjoying our firepit on our #Adirondack furniture made from #recycled milk jugs. #gardening #gardeningmastodon

Study shows 90% metal pollution drop in Adirondack waters five decades after the clean air act https://phys.org/news/2025-04-metal-pollution-adirondack-decades-air.html

Trellised all the domestic #blackberry plants for this #berry season in the memorial blackberry bramble I installed in my mother's memory. These are triple crown thornless domestic #blackberries that produce big juicy #berries. I grew up in #NewYork state's 7 million acre #Adirondack Park and I used to pick blackberries in the forest when I was a child.

I decided to become a member of NJ Audubon because I have always absolutely loved #birds, ever since I was a small child growing up in the #Adirondack #Park in upstate #newyork. #newjersey has some incredible birding due to being the path of migration for many species. We also have endangered birds that need our support.

This one might be my crown jewel :')

Making this image took so much planning, and just as much execution.

4 miles hike one way in the middle of the night to carry 20 pounds of gear up a mountain. no complaints, totally worth it.

#MonochromeMonday

Serenity by the sea.

On #Amtrak #Adirondack from Montréal to New York City. A fun trip with a good dose of “blast from the past” with amazing views. But in terms of modern rail travel, level of service and speed/track conditions it is a disgrace #polcan #polmtl #polqc #CrossBorderRail America

#zircon is useful for fission-track cooling ages too -its closure temperature is ~220°C (the temperature when the fission tracks are annealed away). John Garver's group at Union college (@geo_garver) used ziron fission tracks to show that the same Adirondack rocks have been cooling since the late-Precambrian/Cambrian rifting of Rodinia.
#MinCup23 #zircon #Adirondack #UnionCollege

#fluorapatite can be used for dating geo processes; not only by the accumulation of radiogenic isotopes, but also from the accumulation of damage from the fission of uranium. Mary Roden-Tice (SUNY Plattsburgh) showed that the rocks in the Adirondack portion of the Grenville were near the surface (<100°C) by the Cretaceous (~100 million years ago).
Roden-Tice et al., J. Geology (200). (Mary has since passed away).
#MinCup23 #Adirondack #NewYork #Geology

Good news for anyone headed to #Montreal. Would love to see a train from #Burlington to Montreal as well!

https://www.wcax.com/2023/09/01/amtrak-adirondack-service-return-this-month/

I built these Adirondack chairs from plans in Norm Abram’s Classics from The New Yankee Workshop book about 25 years ago. They’ve been out in the #pittsburgh weather all those years and needed a tuneup. A little sanding and screw tightening and they’re good as new plus a little patina. The redwood from Brookside lumber has held up pretty well all these years.
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#maker #pghmaker #helloimakeis #wood #woodworking #normabram #newyankeeworkshop #chair #adirondack #empireofdust

As #climate warms, dissolved oxygen levels in #Adirondack #lakes are declining. A shorter lake ice season and longer stratification period are to blame, but bathymetry (depth profiles) may affect the sensitivity of individual lakes. Bad news for #aquatic species. https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/loss-of-oxygen-in-lakes

Revolution mit dem Tanzbein: #Blackbraid - #Sacandaga

Das Native-American-Black-Metal-Projekt BLACKBRAID, ein Projekt von Sgah'gahsowáh, einem jungen #Mohawk aus den #Adirondack Mountains im Staat New York. hat ein Musikvideo zum Song „Sacandaga“ veröffentlicht. Der Track stammt vom am morgigen 26. August erscheinenden Debüt „BlackBraid I“.

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Die Tracklist:

1. The River Of Time Flows Through Me
2. As The Creek Flows Softly By
3. Sacandaga
4. Barefoot Ghost Dance On Bloodsoaked Soil
5. Warm Wind Whispering Softly Through Hemlock At Dusk
6. Prying Open The Jaws Of Eternity

https://www.trueten.de/archives/12460-Revolution-mit-dem-Tanzbein-Blackbraid-Sacandaga.html

#blackmetal Danke für den Tipp, @Frank