Autumn Light
Thanksgiving Day, on the way home from my aunt's farm, I stopped by the Conewago Creek wandering through East Berlin PA. Lowering sun, mirror still water, light and dark bark, and the last leaves clinging to boughs...
We will not mention the vertical slope I navigated with the wrong shoes, bad knees and hiking sticks...
Also some shots of farm things with cats...
We will not mention the vertical slope I navigated with the wrong shoes, bad knees and hiking sticks...
Also some shots of farm things with cats...
This Siamese/piebald cross is one of the more unique cats I've ever seen.
Lenapes, Mohawks and creeks...
"Conewago" is said to be from the Lenape (First Nations/Native American/Algonquian) for "at the rapids". It sounds very much like the pronunciation for "Kanewake", a First Nations reserve of the traditionally Iroquoian-speaking Mohawk nation on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec. At least that's what it sounded like when I heard a young Onondaga man say it. The name is derived from the Mohawk word kahnawà:ke, meaning "place of the rapids", referring to their major village Caughnawaga near the rapids of the Mohawk River in New York... https://findwords.info/term/kahnawake. In colonial times, the Lenape (Delaware) and Iroquois were rivals. Their languages are from different families, and they had rather different details of culture, technology and political structure. Still, this one word comes out much the same!