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It was a beautiful Fall day today as we watched this particular fisherman bring in a few fish - one which resembled a Walleye - there were a number of small boats out there. I was stunned there were any fish remaining in the Ohio near Louisville, Kentucky and Clarksville, Indiana as polluted as it is. The runoff from Indiana as you will see in a following photo teems with surface oil with a reddish tinge. The "beach" itself is trash and litter infested with plastic bottles, jugs, tires, drums and oil containers. What humans, the power companies and industries upstream have done to this river, future generations and the people who live along it and downstream is an abomination and criminal.
Ohio River tops the Nation for industrial pollution: www.courier-journal.com/story/tech/science/environment/20...
At first glance this bluegill's nest is notably different than other local residents. The creative digging and clearing, in the shape of a bear's claw is situated behind a large rock providing him solid insulation and an exceptional noise and rfi barrier while also giving that added security knowing he and his family will be protected from the various local environmental assaults and predators which abound in this area. As you can see he chose not to utilize the bright green moss as other fish preferred and his surrounding berm is asymmetric and not clearly defined by height or shape. He also chose a variety of low-keyed colors, shapes and materials including sticks, neutral colored small stones, tiny white scallop shells, mud, and one black walnut.
This fish most likely has had or witnessed previous violent encounters, may be a rapid metabolizer of the CYP2D6 gene, has been exposed to the various pharmaceuticals in our water, may be either old or tired, or very brilliant in his clever defense plan to protect his prospective mate and brood.
There is a radio station on the top of the hill in front of this lake.
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Black Walnuts:
Allelopathy
Black walnut is allelopathic, as it excretes chemicals into its environment that harm competition. While many species of plants are allelopathic, walnuts are particularly famous for it, records of walnut toxicity to other plants have been observed as far back as the first century when Pliny the Elder wrote: "The shadow of walnut trees is poison to all plants within its compass."[28] Walnuts have since been observed as being toxic to many plants including herbaceous and woody plants.
Like other walnuts, the roots, inner bark, nut husks, and leaves contain a nontoxic chemical called hydrojuglone,[28] when exposed to air or soil compounds it is oxidized into juglone that is biologically active and acts as a respiratory inhibitor to some plants. Juglone is poorly soluble in water and does not move far in the soil and will stay most concentrated in the soil directly beneath the tree.[29] Even after a tree is removed the soil where the roots once were will still contain juglone for several years after the tree is removed as more juglone will be released as the roots decay.[29] Well drained and aerated soils will host a healthy community of soil microbes and these microbes will help to break down the juglone.
Symptoms of juglone poisoning include foliar yellowing and wilting.[29] A number of plants are particularly sensitive. Apples, tomatoes, pines, and birch are poisoned by juglone, and should not be planted in proximity to a black walnut.[4][30]
Interaction with horses
Horses are susceptible to laminitis from exposure to black walnut wood in bedding.[31]
For at least an hour the red flags were up. The reason? The lifeguards said there was a school of bluefish headed this way (they radio each other). Another said the bluefish are not the threat - the threat is the bull sharks waiting around the rocks for the bluefish. There were people fishing 100' north of here and none of them caught anything. One man said he was fishing so he did not have to vacuum at home. Although there are many badge checkers on these beaches, we did not see anyone checking with the fishermen as to whether they were using live bait near the swimming/surfing beaches. The human population on these beaches was rather sparse.
We did not see any signs of bluefish nor did we see any bull sharks. We did see a few dolphins swim by. There were very few gulls in the area, and those that were standing around were quiet. We did not see one fisherman catch anything although one said he'd caught a 5' brown shark earlier.
The surf, tides and water temperatures can be monitored via this Surfcam: www.surfline.com/surf-report/long-beach-island/5842041f4e...
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I've been told US Route 60, Shelbyville Road, is the gateway highway for drug trafficking throughout Kentucky and the USA. In walking from Louisville to Shelbyville it did appear to be true after speaking with a number of individuals I'd encountered along the way.
Midland Trail: The early routing of the Midland Trail, from east to west, began in either New York City or Washington, D.C. and continued through Richmond and Clifton Forge, Virginia to Charleston, West Virginia and passed on through Morehead, KY to Lexington, Kentucky; Louisville, Kentucky; Vincennes, Indiana; Salem, Illinois; St. Louis, Missouri; Sedalia, Missouri; Kansas City, Missouri and Topeka, Kansas; to Limon, Colorado and then on to Denver, Colorado.
From Denver, the original routing split several ways to cross the rockies via Berthoud Pass, Tennessee Pass, Cochetopa Pass, and Monarch Pass. All routings converged in Grand Junction, Colorado and continued into Utah through Green River, Utah and Salt Lake City. Past Salt Lake City, the routing moved southward across the Salt Lake Desert on the same routing as the Lincoln Highway through Iosepa, Utah, Orr's Ranch, Fish Springs Ranch, and Ibapah, Utah.
This part of the route was never popular, the state favoring the Victory Highway routing to the north, which is the basic alignment later followed by Interstate 80, and is now largely inaccessible as it is part of the Dugway Proving Grounds. In central Nevada, the highway continued across the Great Basin Desert through Ely and Tonopah then turning south at Goldfield in the Amargosa Desert and then west into California at Lida and over the Inyo Mountains and White Mountains through Westgard Pass.
At the junction in Big Pine, California in the Owens Valley, the original routing then split into four options:
The first through Mammoth Lakes, Mono Lake, Yosemite, and Stockton to San Francisco.
The second through Bridgeport, California, Lake Tahoe, and Placerville to Sacramento and then San Francisco.
The third south through Independence and Mojave in the Mojave Desert, and then west through Tehachapi Pass to the San Joaquin Valley, and then northward through Merced and Modesto to San Francisco.
The fourth continuing southward from Mojave through Willow Springs to Los Angeles. By the time the Automobile Club of Southern California had prepared their 1917 map of the state, the fourth routing, through Mojave and Willow Springs to Los Angeles, had become the main routing for the Midland Trail in California.
Following a major realignment of the route and assumption into the state highway system around 1922, the main Midland Trail alignment in California bypassed early stagecoach-era stops at Freeman and Willow Springs and at the Neuralia railroad siding, and now routed through Red Rock Canyon to Mojave. The earlier alignment took a high line route to the west in the Sierra Nevada and Scodie Mountains foothills around it following the Los Angeles Aqueduct route past Jawbone Canyon, thence following the Southern Pacific railroad tracks through Rosamond and Lancaster and on to Los Angeles, following the route that was later assigned to U.S. Route 6—the Sierra Highway) in 1937.
Various alignments of this portion of the trail followed the late 19th century Twenty-mule team roads built to haul gold from the Cerro Gordo Mines across the Mojave Desert. and roads built for the early 20th century construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.
The Kentucky State Penitentiary at Eddyville - www.angelfire.com/ky/ksp/CastleonCumberland.htm
Another good article on Kentucky's jail system - "Dying for Dollars , For-Profit Healthcare in Kentucky Jails" (same with most other states) - www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article50322330...
Thankfully this trailer is now headed South with relief donations gathered from the area.
UPDATE: Unfortunately I'm told this trailer had simply gone over to a Church whose members were bringing in donations that day. It is back again. At this rate as donations trickle in it might be full when the "big one" hits here in Louisville. Think of all the gas they'll save.
The title of each photo in this series is a translated line from a poem found in the Chapel of Bones. See the full poem in the original language here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capela_dos_Ossos#Poem .
From our tour guide - the Franciscan monks who used the bones of approximately 5000 corpses, built this to send a message to the nobles that in death, no one can tell the difference between the rich and the poor, royal or common.
Much needed in this area. I'd prefer a diamond-plated one with an IED attached but not sure how to attach that to a Lexus. As many times as vehicles here are side-swiped, rear-ended, backed into, run over and crashed perhaps that would be a good deterrent. In the meanwhile, I simply use "Police Lines Do Not Cross" streamers hanging from the back of my car's trunk. Painting "Service Dog Onboard" along with 4" painted "DO NOT TAILGATE" was not enough.
Known as the Queen of the Dolomites, Marmolada is the highest mountain in the Dolomites.
August 2019
What we particularly liked about this place - address is clearly visible and marked at the entrance. Makes life so much easier when calling a cab. Menu - breaded pork chops, potatoes au gratin & green beans. Pancake did not want to leave!
What I noticed about Biloxi was while snorkling the Gulf floor was covered with bits of Corexit - remnants of the Exxon spill. I did not see any evidence of marine life at all. The beaches were quite dirty and littered and also found some hypodermic needles here and there. It is not a place I would like to live but it would be great if they'd clean it up.