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By Andrea Girolamo on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012 - 11:20 am
Photo by Flickr user Jim Lugach. Used under a Creative Commons license.
We're smack-dab in the middle of Hanukkah, Christmas is two weeks away, and so it's time for you to send us photos of your holiday lights. Whether you go subtle and ring your abode... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012 - 9:41 am
Winter has its grip on the Catskills, but nature is already laying plans for the return of life to the landscape next spring. Mark Zilberman snapped this shot of a luminous seed head against an early-winter sky in Andes recently. For a larger view, see... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012 - 12:17 pm
The Catskill Mountains are full of hidden treasures, lurking far off the beaten path and waiting to reward the patient traveler who knows where to look.
Case in point: Art Reed's glassblowing studio, tucked into an out-of-the-way corner of Delaware County... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012 - 11:06 am
November on the banks of the Delaware River: Brilliant green grass, blue sky, and a river running through it. John of Catskills Photography caught this shot of a late-fall landscape alive with color in Callicoon on November 11.
Shared in the Watershed... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 - 11:51 am
Photo by John from Catskills Photography. Shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
Uncounted in any official statistics on Sandy's destruction: This tiny bird's nest, found on November 1 by a Monticello resident checking his yard for storm damage... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 - 12:35 pm
Just a couple of months ago, we were worried about the mighty Kaaterskill Falls, which was reduced to a mere trickle by mid-summer drought. A little rain makes all the difference.
Reader Jennifer Strom sent us this recent photo of Bastion Falls in full... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 - 10:54 am
Over a dozen people tried their hand at writing a caption for this awesome photo of an Eastern Screech Owl over the weekend.
Choosing a winner was hard, but not that hard, because Pat Guido went the extra mile by having the owl ask a critical question... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012 - 9:16 am
Traffic jam on New Kingston Mountain Road. Local crime writer and Blues Maneuver frontman David Krajicek got this shot of a few of the Manhattan Country School's year-round residents on New Kingston Mountain Road in Roxbury last week. Shared with... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 - 1:07 pm
Add this to the growing pile of evidence that, in fact, we live in the Shire. A Watershed Post reader known only to Flickr as dyerry1 captured this ephemeral moment on Slide Mountain on Friday, October 12, when the high peaks of the Catskills got the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012 - 10:45 am
The autumn leaves may be past their prime, but there's plenty of color in the Catskills landscape if you keep an eye out for it. Watershed Post reader Timothy Cox took this early-morning shot from the road over the Ashokan Reservoir dividing weir on... Read more