Waterfall Wednesday: Rocky Falls
Rocky Falls (top), photograph, 2018 For today’s featured waterfall – Rocky Falls – we are going back to Fall Creek Gorge (also called Ithaca Gorge) in Ithaca, New York. Fall Creek Gorge is located right within the Cornell University campus and includes six named waterfalls – Ithaca Falls, Forest Falls, Foaming…
Waterfall Wednesday: Taughannock Falls
Today’s waterfall is one of my favorite paintings that resulted from my 50 New York Waterfalls project. It’s also a favorite to visit. Taughannock Falls, photograph, 2018 Taughannock Falls is in Taughannock Falls State Park near Trumansburg, New York. It’s located of Route 89 eight miles north of Ithaca on…
Waterfall Wednesday: Central Cascade
Did you know that Watkins Glen State Park used to have a resident artist? That’s something that I found out from one of the displays in the beautiful new entrance when I visited the park this past summer of my 50 New York Waterfalls project. I found it really intriguing…
Waterfall Wednesday: Stewart Falls
For today’s waterfall, we’re going back to Cascadilla Gorge in Ithaca, New York. Stewart Falls is one of the main named waterfalls of this gorge (Giant’s Staircase is the other). I found instances where both waterfalls were referred to as Cascadilla Falls, so for clarity sake I’ll continue to mention them using…
Waterfall Wednesday: Bridge 7 Falls
This is the waterfall that almost wasn’t for my project of 50 New York Waterfalls. Bridge 7 Falls is located in Fillmore Glen State Park in Moravia, New York. I visited this waterfall on the same day that I visited Carpenter Falls, Bucktail Falls, Tinker Falls, Pratt’s Falls and Stockbridge Falls. Also in this…
Waterfall Wednesday: Stony Brook Middle Falls
Today’s featured waterfall is Stony Brook Middle Falls. To be honest, before I started my project of 50 New York Waterfalls, I had never heard of Stony Brook State Park or even of Dansville, New York. Though, that can be said of most of the waterfalls that I visited during…
Waterfall Wednesday: Twin Falls Upper Falls
Twin Falls is the subject of today’s Waterfall Wednesday, specifically the upper falls of the two found in this location. Twin Falls is located in Watkins Glen along Glen Creek in Sugar Hill State Forest just a few miles upstream from Watkins Glen State Park (you can read more about…
Waterfall Wednesday: Chittenango Falls
Chittenango Falls Overlook, photograph, 2018 Today’s featured waterfall is Chittenango Falls in Cazenovia, New York. This waterfall is located in Central NY east of Syracuse in Chittenango Falls State Park. Chittenango Falls State Park is 193 acres. It has multiple hiking trails, picnic areas, and places to fish. At the top…
Waterfall Wednesday: Cavern Cascade
Have you seen how beautiful the trees are getting now? Yesterday I ended up taking a drive and taking lots of pictures of the beautiful leaves and a few pictures of the waterfalls nearby. Here’s one of my favorite pictures of the day. I just love the golds and reds…
Waterfall Wednesday: Pratt’s Falls
Mad Scientist, 19×25 pastel on black pastel paper, 2013 Happy Halloween! It felt like since it is Halloween I should start out with some art that I’ve done that could be considered spooky just for fun. These are two pieces that I thought would fit that theme. Mad Scientist is one…
