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Monthly Image: Red Oaks Mill Dam
Posted by Ed in Photography & Images on 2016-03-15
Heavy rain during an unseasonably warm spell rearranged the deadwood over the Red Oaks Mill Dam:
Red Oaks Mill Dam – 2016-03-04
Much of the wood collects around the pool on the other side of the bridge where the Mighty Wappingers Creek makes a right-angle turn to the left and continues toward the Hudson.
After the rain, the weather became much colder (which was OK, as I didn’t have to shovel the rain off the driveway), and the spray froze on the deadwood:
Red Oaks Mill Dam – icicles on deadwood
A few weeks ago, we walked by the dam at the right moment to catch the sun highlighting the rubble upstream of the decaying dam breast:
Red Oaks Mill Dam – dam breast upstream rubble
There won’t be much left in a few more decades …
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