Steve Young
@realsteveyoung.bsky.social
Botany, nature, photography, hiking, friends and family.
These lines of detritus on a bay beach in Cape Henlopen, Delaware always look like a Japanese painting of mountains to me.
March 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
These lines of detritus on a bay beach in Cape Henlopen, Delaware always look like a Japanese painting of mountains to me.
Cool spider webs at Cape Henlopen State Park on a misty morning.
March 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Cool spider webs at Cape Henlopen State Park on a misty morning.
The first 60 degree days of late winter are the best!
March 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The first 60 degree days of late winter are the best!
March is ‘Let it melt’ month.
February 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
March is ‘Let it melt’ month.
Taughannock Falls near Ithaca today. Beautiful ice and water everywhere!
February 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Taughannock Falls near Ithaca today. Beautiful ice and water everywhere!
Incredible glass sea creatures made in the 1800s by the Blaschka family who also made the glass flowers at Harvard. This is the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY.
February 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Incredible glass sea creatures made in the 1800s by the Blaschka family who also made the glass flowers at Harvard. This is the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY.
Cornell campus and the art museum today.
February 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Cornell campus and the art museum today.
We still have about 9” of snow on the ground. 12 degrees this morning but no wind finally!
February 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
We still have about 9” of snow on the ground. 12 degrees this morning but no wind finally!
I love this old grey birch bark on a downed tree.
February 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I love this old grey birch bark on a downed tree.
I just read where the name Gulf of Mexico first appeared on maps in 1550 so it has been known by that name for 475 years. And Google changes it on a whim from a politician. There needs to be a better process for name changes instead of being fired if you don't do it. Sheesh.
February 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I just read where the name Gulf of Mexico first appeared on maps in 1550 so it has been known by that name for 475 years. And Google changes it on a whim from a politician. There needs to be a better process for name changes instead of being fired if you don't do it. Sheesh.
No surprise here but it took a long time to come out.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people
New book reveals that Pacific islands inhabitants helped European scientists identify hundreds of plant species
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
No surprise here but it took a long time to come out.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Lakeshore Limited train between Schenectady and Albany. It goes pretty fast here and is on the corridor of the first train line in America.
February 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Lakeshore Limited train between Schenectady and Albany. It goes pretty fast here and is on the corridor of the first train line in America.
my sites @botanyvisible and @FloraofNewYork are up on Bluesky now.
February 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
my sites @botanyvisible and @FloraofNewYork are up on Bluesky now.
Beautiful gray birch at the Woodlawn Preserve, Schenectady.
February 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Beautiful gray birch at the Woodlawn Preserve, Schenectady.
White wood aster still around sporting jaunty snow caps. Albany County.
February 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
White wood aster still around sporting jaunty snow caps. Albany County.
No lack of snow in the Adirondacks! Paul Smiths VIC.
February 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
No lack of snow in the Adirondacks! Paul Smiths VIC.
The Jamaican bobsled in Saranac Lake!
February 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The Jamaican bobsled in Saranac Lake!
Scenes along the Upper Hudson River today. Lots of beautiful ice.
February 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Scenes along the Upper Hudson River today. Lots of beautiful ice.
You wonder why malls going out of business? Here is Colonie Center in Albany yesterday afternoon with only a few people walking around. Roller skates would have been fun!
February 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
You wonder why malls going out of business? Here is Colonie Center in Albany yesterday afternoon with only a few people walking around. Roller skates would have been fun!
Winter sunrises through the trees are so beautiful.
February 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Winter sunrises through the trees are so beautiful.
I hope the Canadians don’t stop sending us that nice clean cold Canadian air.
February 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I hope the Canadians don’t stop sending us that nice clean cold Canadian air.
Great to be out snowshoeing with friends. Enjoy the snow!
February 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Great to be out snowshoeing with friends. Enjoy the snow!
If you crop part of the photo of the ice on Lake George you get a nice dog head profile.
February 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If you crop part of the photo of the ice on Lake George you get a nice dog head profile.
Nice modern art in the ice on Lake George.
February 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Nice modern art in the ice on Lake George.