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Smile On Saturday-Trees In Silhouette
I snapped this at one of Stu's gigs in Watkins Glen, NY. It was such a lovely evening.
Capture taken there at Seneca Rocks in West Virginia ... here taking the color orange and leaving it on, and reducing the saturation of all the other colors. Processing all done within Lightroom.
Happy Slider Sunday
At least I think so.
I realized that I do not have enough waterfalls in my stream. Ricketts Glen State Park in the Appalachian mountains in Pennsylvania has plenty of beautiful waterfalls to choose from: 22 (by other accounts, 24) named falls along the two branches of the Kitchen Creek. The 7-mile loop trail, steep in places but not too difficult overall, it a great day trip.
A few years back I caught the Baldwinsville local returning to Dewitt Yard after switching Budweiser. I didn't notice it at the time, but there's a trespasser on the massive through-truss structure.
NS H06 is just to about to tie up at Kashong Point where they'll wait a recrew in the evening. This is the job that is now back to nights at least for a bit, running out of Gang Mills up the Corning Secondary to the FGLK interchange in Geneva.
Neat old farm house at this park area next to the Seneca Rocks formation in West Virginia.
Happy Fence Friday
auscultando el tramo entre Granada y Antequera, el A330 comienza a ganar velocidad despues de haber dejado el tramo de tercer hilo
Seneca Rocks is a unique 2240 ft multiple crag formation in West Virginia. The rocks were uplifted and folded millions of years ago, and erosion has exposed the distinctive Tuscarora sandstone, a hard stone formed from ancient ocean sediments. Two Native American villages of the Archaic period have been unearthed near the Rocks, and evidence suggests that the crags may have been a spiritual climb for Native Americans who came here for trading purposes. In 1939, Paul Brandt, Don Hubbard, and Sam Moore made the first documented historic traditional rope climb only to find an inscription of "D.B. Sept. 16, 1908" at the top. It is assumed that the initials belong to surveyor Donald Bittenger who was working in the area at that time.
For those of you who don't rope climb (like me), there is a 1.3 mile trail up to a viewing platform where there is actually a view. Since the US National Forest Service stopped clearing in the 1990s, many viewpoints in the US East such as Spruce Knob in West Virginia and the Kancamagus Highway in New Hampshire are now treed in.
Tree-mendous Tuesday
Last summer we travelled to Watkins Glen for one of Stu's gigs. I snapped this as the sun was setting. The scenery in that area is so breathtaking.
On this trip to West Virginia was also spent some time underground at the pretty Seneca Caverns, located south of Seneca Rocks area.
Captured here hand held at ISO 4000 ... gotta love these camera sensors and noise control.
Seneca Rocks is a West Virginia Landmark with a rich climbing history. It is the big attraction in the Spruce Knob - Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area that lies within the Monongahela National Forest. It is a very popular rock climbing destinations and also played a key role in training American troops during World War II
CSX J744 crosses the Illinois River with three cars for H.B. Fuller on the last remaining segment of the Kankakee and Seneca Railway. Owned 50/50 by the Rock Island and Big Four (CCC&StL) Railroads, the K&S was intended to be a Chicago bypass between the two roads. Nonetheless, the railroad folded in 1933 during the Great Depression, but the Rock Island kept a small section of track south of Seneca, including this lift bridge, to serve industries south of the river including a DuPont explosives plant.
"So the life of the philosopher extends widely: he is not confined by the same boundaries as are others. He alone is free from the laws that limit the human race, and all ages serve him as though he were a god.
Some time has passed: he grasps it in his recollection. Time is present: he uses it. Time is to come: he anticipates it. This combination of all times into one gives him a long life."