tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63071601266921802572013-06-19T04:08:30.594-04:00Carver Cards (A photographic Journal)Carver Cards is a photo journal.Carverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05968919406427737503noreply@blogger.comBlogger100613Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Pageflakestag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6307160126692180257.post-41691595675913577272013-06-18T04:30:00.000-04:002013-06-18T04:30:04.003-04:002013-06-18T04:30:04.003-04:00ABC Wednesday: W is for Weigela<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I planted a <i>Weigela florida</i></span></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">bush around 1990 and it did well for about 20 years.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Unfortunately my <i>Weigela</i> was wounded and died several years ago. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The only trace I have now of my wonderful <i>Weigela</i> is old photographs I took.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51687782@N03/9067792603/" title="abcwedweog2IMG_7826 by CarverS2, on Flickr"><img alt="abcwedweog2IMG_7826" height="491" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2867/9067792603_c4a424ef62_z.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Weigela is a deciduous shrub and use to have some of my earliest spring flowers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The new leaves are a wine color.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The leaves get more green in them as they mature.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Since I took a lot of pictures of the Hudson River while staying in a Manhattan hotel with a view of the river, I thought I'd write a post about this river.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Some of the information I'm using is paraphrased from Wikipedia.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Hudson River is 315 miles long flowing north to south through eastern New York State, U.S. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The river was named after Henry Hudson an Englishman who explored it in 1609.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The river begins at Henderson Lake in Newcomb, NY and finally empties into Upper New York Bay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Hudson River serves as a boundary between the states of New York and New Jersey at its mouth before emptying into the Upper New York Bay.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The river was polluted by PCBs (amongst other things) which were not banned in the U.S. until 1977.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Seeger's Clearwater foundation which began in 1966 brought national attention to the pollution in the Hudson and helped force a clean-up of PCB contamination. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Some of my early memories of being aware of water pollution came from Pete Seeger's music and activism.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Water pollution is such an important and ongoing issue all over the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I thought my rainy day cab ride in Manhattan provided some possibilities for black and white photography.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The people below who were cutting between cars stalled during rush hour traffic were braver than I am. I was happy that the sun came out the next day.</span></span></div>
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