Welcome again to visitors who have recently discovered this photoblog. It has been running for about two weeks, and you can always check previous pages by clicking on the left-arrow button beneath the large picture at the top. The two arrow buttons make the website rotate like a circular slide tray, in both directions. New pages are created weekly, with articles and smaller images added to this lower portion every few days.

The captions of some photographs now include a 16-digit numerical code which is latitude and longitude in decimal degrees. An example is above and marks the location of the canoe. Another will be found beneath the picture of the day lily. These numbers are not hyperlinks but can be copied and pasted into Google Earth or Google Maps, as well as other mapping applications.

Simply select the full line of numbers, then press Ctrl-C. Next, access Google Maps and click a cursor into the "Search the map" field. Finally, press Ctrl-V and click the "Search Maps" button. You will be taken to a map of that location. Click the "Satellite" button and zoom in as desired.

The arrow on the map is the canoe, which was floating just north of the Route 27 bridge. I was standing on the smaller bridge near the old mill, shooting a rapid series in order to catch the canoe before it disappeared. Careful cropping later removed the bridge and transformed an ordinary snapshot into an attraction.

On the satellite photogaph, look to the right and find an even smaller bridge in the woods. The bowed trees, below, are just south of that little bridge.

This curved branch hangs over a small tributary of the Millstone River near the old red mill. The same scene is often photographed during flooding, and there are also prettier seasons such as this autumnal moment. Over the several years that I have been frequenting the canal park, I have seen these boughs bend lower and lower, and one wonders how much longer they will support their own weight.

A late-afternoon trip to Kingston and the Millstone River produced this wonderful capture of a Great Egret fishing among the grass beneath the Route 27 bridge. It had been at work for a few minutes, and that gave me an opportuntiy to stealthfully walk a little closer, and then the two ducks suddenly swam past. There was no time to do anything except point and shoot. Any "posing" was done later, at home. This is a distant scene, at full telephoto with my tiny Casio EX-Z50, the same camera used for all of my recent pictures.