Watershed Post reader David snapped this shot of a fawn trying to blend in with his lawn ornaments from his front door in Delhi. Thanks David! (Send us two more, and you're on your way to earning our "Where The Wild Things Are" badge.)
Photo taken on September 2, and shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr group pool.
WP readers: We really, really dig the local blog Upstater, whose editor Lisa Selin Davis and her team of writers dish up daily doses of upstate life and droolalicious real estate. And apparently the feeling is mutual. We're delighted to announce that we're collaborating with Davis and crew to bring Watershed Post readers some of Upstater's favorite properties for rent or sale in the Catskills, on an ongoing basis. This month, Davis takes a look at contemporary houses. --Lissa Harris
110 Clinton Street, Oneonta
We've seen a few cool cubes over on Upstater, but this one has one serious advantage: price. It's $165,000, with three beds and one bath, steps from the SUNY campus in Oneonta. Built in 1970, it includes an artist's studio with a half-bath, and sits on 1.54 acres, which is a decent amount of land for something right in town.
There's only two things money can't buy: True love and home-grown tomatoes. Above, photographer Mark Zilberman proves that you can grow gorgeous tomatoes in the high-altitude Catskills town of Andes. Shared in the Watershed Post Flickr group.
It's September, and the season of bounty is upon us: late-summer vegetables in full profusion, apple harvest just around the corner, tomatoes groaning on the vine.
Above: Itty-bitty Trout Creek. Source: Google Maps.
The tiny Delaware County hamlet of Trout Creek, in the town of Tompkins, will soon begin work on a community sewer system funded by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. At a recent meeting, the town of Tompkins accepted a $3.1 million bid by the Bovina-based LaFever Excavating to do the work.
Above: Photo of the Orpheum in Saugerties by Flickr user katstan in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
The streets of Saugerties will host the village's First Friday event of the fall this Friday night. Participating businesses are set to offer a spate of events, from wine tastings, discounts on merchandise, open galleries, special meal deals at area restaurants, live music and more. For a complete listing of participating businesses, visit the listing in our calendar.
Above: Brett Cohen's "fake celebrity" YouTube video, which has gotten over 4 million views to date.
Friday, August 31 was a blue moon -- the second full moon in a single calendar month, a phenomenon that only rolls around every couple of years. The next blue moon won't be seen in the night sky until July 31, 2015.
John of Catskills Photography took this stunning shot of the full moon over Monticello on Friday, with the aid of an Orion 4.5-inch reflecting telescope. For more on how he got the photo -- and a more high-resolution image -- click here to see its Flickr page.
Shared in the Watershed Post Flickr group pool.
On Thursday, August 30, the village of Margaretville came together to reflect on the Irene floods. Local videographer Jess Vecchione produced the video above, using footage taken at the ceremony. In it, she juxtaposes shots of the incredible devastation wreaked on the village of Margaretville a year ago with the voices of prominent local citizens talking about where Margaretville is today.
Middletown supervisor Marge Miller talks about why the ceremony of remembrance was held:
"We really needed something to say, 'We've made it, we're here, we still have struggles and concerns, but we're getting there.'"
Margaretville business owner Dorothy Maffei, who put in countless hours of work as a volunteer coordinator over the last year, says that the community rallied after Irene, and that the response should be a lesson in future disasters:
"We as a community should celebrate how well we did, and now figure out how to make it a little bit of a plan, so that we know we can do it again."
It's a first for the Watershed Post: Our combined print and online Catskills Outdoor Guide is hot off the press.
It's stuffed with helpful info about getting outside in the Catskills: lists of favorite hikes, a reservoir-boating how-to guide, tips on geocaching and Catskills-style urban exploration, and section about what kind of edible plants are popular around here.
You can pick up the print version the in Margaretville and Stamford visitors centers, and Bed & Bath Shoppe, The Cheese Barrel, and the Catskill Watershed Corporation in Margaretville. (Regionwide distribution starts in earnest in September. Get in touch with me at [email protected] if you'd like me to deliver a stack to your business.)
It may have been a few years since you were a Scout. Or maybe while the rest of the kids were out learning to use compasses and doing good deeds, you were home playing XBox. Or maybe you're thinking, "What's XBox?"
Fret not: You, too, can get out, do neat stuff, and earn badges for it. (And bragging rights.) The Watershed Post is proud to present our first-ever Catskills badge: Where The Wild Things Are. It's a realio, trulio, embroidered badge that you can sew on a sash or your favorite pair of Carhartts, and we'll be rolling out other badges as we design them.
Here's what you've got to do to earn it: Send us three (3) pictures of wildlife, plants, insects, fungus, etc, taken somewhere in Greene, Ulster, Delaware, Sullivan, or Schoharie County. The rules:
1. The photo must be taken by you, and by submitting it you give us permission to publish it on our website.
2.There must be at least one photo from three of the following categories:
-Mammals
-Insects and other invertebrates (spiders, slugs, etc.)
-Fish
-Birds
-Reptiles
-Herbaceous plants
-Trees and shrubs
-Fungus
