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Another piece of history about Stillwater:  the region was logged heavily before the dams were built.
During the drawdown in the fall, the stumps emerge.

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Very old mountains, the Adirondacks were shaped most recently by glaciers.
When they draw the water down in Stillwater Reservoir in the fall, long narrow bands of boulders emerge.  I think that they are eskers, glacial remnants formed as meandering streambeds at the bottom of melting glaciers.
Many of these piles aren't far beneath the surface.  This lake is not popular with speed boats.  Nice for us.
I took this photo two years ago Columbus Day weekend.  The lake was lower that year, and the colors more advanced that weekend.

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Stillwater has a large population of loons, possibly the largest in the Adirondacks.  This loon swam by me very close and unconcerned.  Seeing a loon is always a gift.

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When it's too windy to go in the canoe, then it's time to fly a kite!  Another sunny day, temperatures in high 50s, and very windy.

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A front went through overnight and the temperature dropped 15 degrees leaving the air clear and the lake calm.

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The boathouse, the shop and my boat.  When we were here in June the water was lapping at the base of the boathouse.

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I arrived this afternoon. The water is down in the reservoir and there is a lot of color on the trees now.  As I gained elevation driving out of the Black River valley, the colors increased by the mile.  There has already been a killing frost.  Loons and ducks are still here.

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Rainy day yesterday; Common Loon on the misty Flow; Common Merganser with 13 ducklings; sunny day today

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Looking up the Flow

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Beaver River Flow calm, sublime early in the morning.

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Rap-Shaw by canoe in a cloud of blackflies ...remember it is still June.  The rule was always: open up the camp and turn on the water over Memorial Day.  Skip June.  Summer starts on the Fourth of July weekend.

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Bog near Stillwater

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Rap-Shaw 

too windy to go on the lake

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Rap-Shaw

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happy dog