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Category Archives: Mineral
The Short and Winding Road
Patches of park ice were scattered throughout the woods in the now rootless depressions of fallen trees, their surfaces etched with lines and showing pockets of trapped air. In this case, it was like looking down at a curvy two-lane … Continue reading
Posted in Mineral, Weltz Park
Tagged ice, nature, nature photography, park, winter, winter woods
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And the kitchen sink
Perhaps washed ashore during a recent nor’easter, this steel basin stuck out like a shiny sore thumb among the sand, shells, and smaller debris along a beach on Sandy Hook.
Posted in Mineral, Sandy Hook Unit - Gateway National Recreation Area
Tagged Atlantic ocean, beach, kitchen sink, sand, sink
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Ashen abstract landscape
The heavy snow today turned the view across one of the park playing fields into a muted monochromatic Mark Rothko painting.
Posted in Joe Palaia Park, Mineral
Tagged color field, color field painting, Mark Rothko, nature, nature photography, park, snow, winter scene
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False fog cloud field
Fresh morning droplets settled on wispy field grasses like a ground-level cloud covering parts of a meadow.
Bewitching powder
With temperatures above 80 today, the four-ish inches of snow that fell only last week seem a distant memory. While it lasted, though, the crystal covering turned both woods & bog into a magical snow globe and made an ordinary … Continue reading
Posted in Flora, Joe Palaia Park, Mineral, Trees & Shrubs
Tagged nature, nature photography, park, snow, swamp, winter woods
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Rocky Picture Show
On a narrow strip of land between Henry Hudson Trail and Sandy Hook Bay, boulders and rocks were alternately covered with moss or ice, creating a mixed spring-like and wintry vista.
Posted in Flora, Fungi, Lichens, & Mosses, Henry Hudson Trail, Mineral
Tagged bay, boulders, ice, moss, nature, nature photography, park, rocks
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Outside, er, art
Suggesting a shimmering cave painting or an abstract expressionist work, the dark sand and swaths of orange ooze (presumably from iron bacteria of the Sphaerotilus-Leptothrix group) transform a park stream into a museum of natural art.
