#WaterYear View of the Tanaro River from the window of a medieval tower in Barbaresco, Italy

#WaterYear “Water for the mill, wine for the stomach” Spotted in a cafe in Milan. A more whimsical and constructive Italian version of the old adage “whiskeys for drinking and waters for fighting”.

#WaterYear One of the most dramatic locations for a cafe I’ve ever seen (look at bottom of photo), just a few tables perched over the cliff above the Tanaro River (trib to Po) in Barbaresco, Piedmont, Italy. Photo from medieval tower that stands over the town).

I’ve been using images of the “vertical forest” towers in Milan in my power points for a long time. Nice to finally see them.

#WaterYear floodplain forest at sunset along the Ticino River, a major tributary to the Po

#WaterYear Monviso, the “Stone King” rises in the distance, vineyards of Barbaresco in foreground. The Po, Italy’s longest river, starts at the base of Monviso. We’ll go visit some spots along the Po tomorrow.

First #WaterYear photo dedicated to water in the form of fog. Italian word for fog is nebbia and here is a foggy vineyard of Nebbiolo grape near Barolo in the Langhe in Piedmont, Italy, so named because it’s harvested as fog becomes common in the region. Dramatically dreary and beautiful

NEW | The world has achieved nearly a tenfold increase in solar power in the ten years since the #ParisAgreement ☀️ Solar rose from providing 1% of global electricity in 2015 to 8.8% in the first half of 2025. Emerging economies now lead this growth 📈 https://loom.ly/tlCvBso

#WaterYear Rowers on the Po River in Turin

My new post in Forbes about how, as revealed in the new film Deliver Me From Nowhere, @brucespringsteen.net provides two lessons for those who work in nature conservation, one for the head and one for the heart www.forbes.com/sites/jeffop...

#WaterYear The Pesa River in Tuscany from the vineyards of Molino di Grace near Panzano in Chianti.

#WaterYear In Rome, Paola in front of her eponymous fountain

🎶The lake it is said, never gives up its dead, when the gales of November come early🎶 The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago, w/ 29 men on board. Photo is the Arthur Anderson, the boat traveling w/ the EF thru the storm, the last to communicate w/ her & search for survivors #WaterYear

#WaterYear Just landed in Rome and walking around the city at sunset, crossing the Tiber/Tevere

Slowed down my typing…

#WaterYear Happy Birthday to Joni Mitchell, whose song "River" is just so beautiful.. On first listen, you may be lulled into thinking this beautiful ballad is a Christmas song. But listen closer and you’ll hear a woman lamenting that she’s torched the relationship... youtu.be/OLHxxBTl71I?...

#GarWeek Comedians in Gars Getting Coffee @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social #WaterYear

In Michelin star restaurants, the chef inspects every plate before it goes out to the floor. And, when he thinks it needs just a tad something more, he adds a little garnish #GarWeek #WaterYear @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social

#WaterYear for #GarWeek, an homage to the president who was born a few miles from where I live.. @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social

No room on my lap for my laptop.

#WaterYear celebrates #GarWeek and also celebrates @solomonrdavid.bsky.social for being such an effective communicator about, yes, gars, but really fish and freshwater ecosystems more broadly. @garlab.bsky.social

#WaterYear After a super dry fall we finally got some soaking rain last week. Fall and flows along Chagrin River.

#WaterYear Today is birthday of @lylelovett.bsky.social who sings about rivers frequently, particularly the Brazos. Here’s his Texas River song about the Pecos, Nueces, Guadalupe, Brazos, Red, Wichita, etc. “There’s many a river that waters the land” indeed open.spotify.com/track/6GO0XT...

Happy Halloween from #WaterYear. here's Wren from about 2008 wearing various items from her Halloween costume collection to create this hybrid: Dorothy the Damselfly, emerging from Chagrin River

#WaterYear Photo from almost exactly 16 years ago of my 5-year old daughter in a "Born in USA" cover pose for a Springsteen & rivers essay I'd written. Today she's home for a few days from her college *senior year* and she's kindly agreed to join me for Springsteen movie "Deliver Me from Nowhere"

#WaterYear drops of Fall

#WaterYear Fall along the Chagrin River in the South Chagrin Reservation of the Cleveland Metroparks

With new Springsteen movie, "Deliver Me From Nowhere" out, here's a #WaterYear trip down memory lane. Prob 15 yrs ago I wrote a Springsteen-and-water themed essay & got my kids to pose in front of a river so I could use headline "this river was born to run" (as they imitate imagery of Born in USA)

How vulnerable are riparian trees to drought? Using groundwater and satellite data from a California waterhsed, our new paper found that trees by drying rivers lost up to 5 weeks of growing season, suggesting they’re nearing critical groundwater limits. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#WaterYear celebrates 200th anniv of completion of Erie Canal. When Ohio & Erie Canal was completed 7yrs later, connecting CLE to OH River, Lake Erie became hub of waterway connecting NYC & New Orleans, linking east coast to middle of country at time before railroads & when roads were terrible

Art for #WaterYear Pablo Picasso was born on this day in 1881. Here are three of his river-themed paintings: 1. Crossing the Seine on the Upper Deck 2. The River at Notre Dame 3. The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro

Vibrant fall colors around a small pond in Geauga County, OH... #WaterYear

Another #WaterYear photo celebrating "Take Me Outside" week. When Luca would catch-and-release fish, Wren worried about the time the fish spent out of water. So, as something of a stopwatch-& gesture of interspecies solidarity-she would put her head in the water for the time a fish was out of water

This week is "Take me Outside" week, so #WaterYear is looking back to when the kids were little, searching for crayfish in the Chagrin River.

#WaterYear Hungarian composer Franz Lizst was born on this day in 1811. He had a few compositions about water, including "Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este" or "the Fountains of the Villa d'Este." Photo is "fountains of the Spanish Steps" (Paola & Wren, 2010) open.spotify.com/track/25pCHf...

#WaterYear Jay "Ding" Darling was born on this day in 1876. He won 2 Pulitzers for his political cartoons, including some influential about conservation (see next). He was a leader in the early conservation movement, including a founder of the @nationalwildlife.bsky.social. Darling Refuge in FL

Halloween approaches. Here’s a jump scare for your enjoyment.

🎶🌷 You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea Sail away, kill off the hours You belong somewhere you feel free 🎶🌷 Tom Petty would have turned 75 today... Floxglove blooming along the Chagrin River #WaterYear

Alexander Hamilton, and a wedding party, observes the No Kings march in Cleveland.

Duet

#WaterYear celebrates frogs (and toads)

Superman in Cleveland

This is where we want Kings. In the Elwha. After dam removal. King (chinook) salmon, that is. And in the Klamath. #WaterYear on a tour last year of the largest dam removal in history (Elwha R. Olympic Peninsula WA) up until Klamath. For both, tribes led the way @americanrivers.bsky.social

#WaterYear; fall by the falls (Chagrin Falls on Chagrin River)

#WaterYear celebrates #WorldFoodDay & the key role that rivers play to help feed the world. Photo: boat delivering produce to floating village in Tonle Sap Lake (Cambodia), part of Mekong system, one of most important rivers for food. See microsite Rivers of Food rivers-of-food.panda.org @fao.org

#WaterYear A nice confluence of happy hour and golden hour along the Chagrin River.

Yolo Bypass tour during #ISRS2025 Carson Jeffres of @ucdavis.bsky.social & Jacob Katz of @caltrout.bsky.social explain how field behind them is great habitat for juvenile chinook…just add water & turbocharged food web produces “floodplain fatties” as in poster @riversociety.bsky.social #WaterYear

My partner for a Teams call this am

#WaterYear during #ISRS2025 took a field trip to brand new “big notch” at the Yolo Bypass which will improve fish passage & allow managed flooding of this crucial floodplain habitat to benefit native fish and birds. Impressive infrastructure to bolster green infrastructure @riversociety.bsky.social

#WaterYear and fall is just underway along the Chagrin River