Appalachian Trail
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Clara and I drove 50 miles through a twisting gorge in the dark and through a very dense fog to reach this spot. The lake was flooding and this was taken just before sunrise. I know the water looks like snow, but it isn't. She liked this so much we will put a large print on our living room wall.
Another example of how Clara graces my life.
My 109th image published in PhotoVogue Italia
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Ceasars Head, South Carolina, USA, after sunrise in autumn. This viewpoint (which is basically a roadside parking lot with a lame visitor center) is officially only open at 9AM, after waking up at 4AM in Asheville, North Carolina, I found the gates to the parking area closed, so I parked along the roadside and shot some photos, as I was leaving I got yelled at by very belligerent park rangers as if I committed a treasonous crime, in the end they let me go without paying a fine, or even the regular entrance fee, but please, WHY is a roadside viewpoint even CLOSED at any hour in the first place? Ridiculous......
Happy Sunday to all.
Much of the Appalachian Trail that winds through Pennsylvania is moderately dangerous littered with rocks of all sizes. It may take over an hour to go one mile.
There are few places as magical as Springtime in the mountains of Appalachia, such was the case this past Friday when Norfolk Southern saw fit to operate train 188 over "the Pokey" with a strange visitor on the point. UP 1995 is one of six Heritage paint SD70ACes, paying homage to the late, great Chicago & Northwestern Railway. I've caught all twenty of Norfolk Southern's heritage units in the wild, but heretofore I'd only caught one of UP's; the Southern Pacific. Thanks to the birdies for digging up the necessary Intel to go after the CNW heritage unit, as cell service is minimal at best once you get west of Bluefield on the former N&W Pocahontas Division mainline. This would be my second photo location, as I started in Iaeger where they acquired a rear-end pusher, of train 188 and at this point the massive twenty-thousand ton train has dropped speed substantially as it does battle with the famed Elkhorn Grade. The twin bores at Huger are personal favorites of mine and the colors of Spring did not disappoint in the evening after the area was pounded with rain for much of the afternoon.
One location I've always wanted to get for years is the overpass west of Winchester, Ohio off Route 32. Getting anything running this far east is quite an ordeal, but getting a westbound in good light is next to impossible. Hopefully with the new gravel business on the east end, shots like this can be easier to get.
An early morning scene from the Rock Castle Gorge trail off the Blue Ridge Parkway in Floyd County VA
Tucked deep in the hills of eastern Kentucky, the C&O era cantilever at Dawkins lights a clear for C501, one of countless loads of coal the Big Sandy has been host to.
The Mountain Laurel were in full bloom and we were enticed to walk a short distance down the Appalachian Trail. This trail runs from the state of Georgia to the state of main and is 2,200 miles long. We probably covered.... oh I would say an eight of a mile of it! LOL It runs through the Shenandoah National Park.