A Well Timed Photographic Trip To Clayton By Boat

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                          
                                              Calumet Island Across From Clayton

                                                      Red  Buoy Off Bartlett Pt.

My photography is available for sale through Captain Spicer's Gallery, Clayton, NY.  If you have an interest in one of my images shown on this blog that is not currently at the gallery, have the gallery owners contact me.  Various sizes are available framed or unframed.

Thanks,
Art Pundt

Early Summer Garden

Foggy Morning

Zoning Enforcement???? Nahhh... That Is Just For Suckers!

Why is this wind turbine fiasco still allowed to remain standing?  For 5 years it has not been operational. 

 Can you say zoning enforcement???  Apparently the CV town govt can't!!!!

It has been up since 2009 and the only time it has operated  is when it  was wildly out of control in a high wind storm. It was put up under an illegal permit fiasco and declared illegal by the CV ZBA, and when the owner sued the town the court even upheld the ZBA decision, and still sits there like a giant finger flipping off town zoning and the court! 

 I believe it was just about a year ago that the Cape Vincent zoning officer told the owner that he either had to finish the project and make it operational or remove it.

So what happened and why is it still standing? 

It is  obviously not operational now and will most likely rack up another summer as an expensive eyesore and osprey nest stand.  In fact today I actually did see an osprey sitting on it eyeballing it for another nest site!  Wonder if the osprey has a zoning permit???

Of course this sits on the same site as last summer's solar zoning fiasco that was created by our "zoning experts" who couldn't read their own zoning law, and our very own town supervisor who had his own illegal solar project he had to take down because again our "zoning experts" couldn't read the law they wrote.  After nearly a year that solar project on the original wind turbine fiasco site  hasn't materialized either even though our town "zoning experts" and most of the town govt jumped thought all kinds of hoops trying to make their f!#%up look legal!!!

So much for zoning!!! 

 Maybe we should call it a zoning "suggestion" not a zoning "LAW".  And it appears  the more money you have to sue the town the more of  a "suggestion" our zoning" law" is.

Now we have the water dist 2 fiasco and the town once again appears to be in  an appeasement game with the people involved.  Of course it doesn't hurt when one of the person's involved is a state official to get the schmooze treatment from the current town govt.

Hmmm...is there a trend here how the CV  town govt enforces it's rules and regulations????  Money and power talks and sh@#! walks???

Or should I say doesn't enforce them.  Of course with the current trend we could save a bunch of money and just get rid of the zoning enforcement officer and our other "zoning experts"!

Early Summer June Green!!!

Each summer when we first arrive in NNY from Arizona it is like green shock coming from the desert S.W.

Some images capturing the lush green of early summer.

As I mentioned in a previous post, numerous pieces of my photography can be see on exhibit and for sale at Captain Spicer's Gift Shop and Gallery of Clayton, N. Y.

Photos On Exhibit - Captain Spicer's Gallery - Clayton, NY

If you are a regular visitor to this blog you are probably aware that I post some of my photographs from time to time, particularly to showcase the beauty and uniqueness of the 1000 Island region. 

So I am pleased to announce that Captain Spicer's Gift Shop and Gallery of Clayton, NY now has a number of my photographic pieces on exhibit and for sale.

Captain Spicer's has been exhibiting fine high quality  gifts and art work for many years in this area, and is located at 40467 NYS Rt. 12, Clayton, NY  not far out of Clayton on the road to Alex Bay.

I hope you will take the  time to visit the gift shop and gallery. 

Thank you,
Art Pundt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome To (Official) Summer!

 

 

Today is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year.  From here each day gets slightly shorter and the sun will set slight more to the south along the western horizon till December 21st on the winter solstice.  But as I sat near the river on this beautiful first summer day, that winter solstice seems like  a long long way away.

 

 

                         Some images from the "official" start of summer on the River!

 

 

 

Solstice sunset ship.

 

                                                      A beautiful day to start summer.            

                                                              Gone fishing.