Hurricanes Staying Stronger After Landfall

A recent report in Nature (Tropical cyclones could last longer after landfall in a warming world) found that hurricanes forming in the North Atlantic Basin are staying stronger after they hit landfill because of warmer sea water. One of the results of climate change is that the water temperature of our ocean's has been rising since the 1960's 

It seems that the payback of OUR abuse of our Mother (karma) is accelerating with findings like this, Covid 19, a record number of hurricanes this season, extended fire seasons,,,,etc. WELCOME TO THE NEW NORMAL.

Return To Melondy and the Appearance of Another Yellow Orb

Freaky. Almost a year to the day when I first photographed a yellow orb (Rare Photo of a Yellow Orb ) in one of my pictures while doing a survey of the Hudson Valley (Stone Structures--Hudson Valley/ Catskills Part 1 Overview) I catch another one.

Rare indeed to photograph a yellow orb..

A Big Coincidence?

I went back to Melondy Hill Thursday as a follow-up to my visit a week ago (Melondy Hill State Forest (SE Chenango County, NY), Part 1 Manitou Stones) to try and find a large triangular stone mound 15 long and 8 feet high that Don Windsor Chenango county historian talked about in his manual on stone mounds in Chenango County in NY.

I walked all around the general area that he referred to and did not see a large stone mound. I did find huge flat top boulders, which I assumed was the bedrock he referred to in his write-up.

Several of these stone slabs had Manitou Stones on them, or near them as in the photo below.

I had just photographed a Manitou Stone on top of one of these large boulders and went to investigate below the stone slab and found lots of loose stone stones surrounding the slab wondering if they were stones from a stone structure that may have fallen npart?    

The picture below shows lots of stacked stone, or a fractured section of the slab, below a hemlock tree.

It also shows a yellow orb on the upper left side of the picture.

The next shot I took at a different angle with my camera turned shows the yellow orb in almost the same exact location. Demonstrating it was not something on my camera lens that created the yellow orb.

Below is a photo of the yellow orb from last year.  Rare Photo of a Yellow Orb

In my post about the yellow orb last year I noted that many view yellow orbs as a sign, or omen, of caution or to be cautious. I now wonder if the appearance of the yellow orb was because of something else--perhaps another connection to me, or to the fact that both areas have columned stone structures.

Here are the two posts about stone columns.

Stone Structures--Hudson Valley/ Catskills Part 4 Stone Piles/Columns

Melondy Hill State Forest (SE Chenango County, NY), Part 3 Stone Columns

Or?

German philosopher Max Weber said that we have become "disenchanted" with Nature and no longer see its Magic because of the "dis-godding" of Nature (all is God).

Seeing a yellow orb says that enchantment is still there if we believe and look hard enough.

Manitou's at Skytop (in the city of Syracuse) Posting #5 Mountainside Manitous

Here are some trail maps from TrailForks-- Skytop Main Loop     and  Skytop lot South Entrance. 

I have found an incredibly rich area for stone structures within Skytop Powerful energy and lots and lots of Manitou Stones.

Today's posts are about some of the Manitous on a steep hillside. Seriously steep, yet there are bunches of Manitou Stones. I have certainly seen Manitous on hillsides and mountainsides, but nothing of this steepness combined with the size of the manitous. No doubt all the stones, rocks and fissures most certainly provide lots of rocks to work with.

As soon as you enter you come across several Manitous. Although there is not much of a gradient in the pictures below.

In the center of the picture above there is a large Manitou that has fallen over' Above it is Manitou stones. Not pictured is one on the left.

Jaeda Bear gives perspective to the size of the Manitous.

Looking down on a Manitou.

Looking up.

The side view above gives perspective as to how steep the hillside was.

My hat is off to this that place these humungous Manitou stones on a hillside.