Tag: Photgraphy

Infinity Path

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It feels like for sure. You can’t see the end of it and it probably takes 10-15 minutes to walk the entire length of this pier. At the other end there were only two people, a couple. They were fishing. I asked if they got anything, not yet he replied – only a crab. They were from Atlanta, currently coming back from Miami and stopping half way for some break. He said that they do this trip to Miami and back every year. Every year they try to stop somewhere midway and his goal is to catch one fish. We stayed there for another 5 or so minutes, enjoying the view. When we left he still didn’t have a catch. I hope he did. It is nice to have little traditions.

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Virginia Creeper Trail

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This Fall I wanted to take a picture of every bridge on the Virginia Creeper Trail. It didn’t happen. One reason is that I didn’t bike through the entire trail in the Fall, well that is pretty much is the reason. We went there right in the middle of the Fall color season but could not make all 17 miles from White top to Damascus. I think there are around 30 of them on the trail, all look and made slightly different. All of them were made to hold a train, but I think many of them were rebuild since the train tracks were taken down. You can see that construction materials are the same as used on the railroad tracks, big and strong.

For this bridge I was trying to find something interesting in the foreground and decided to use this plant, I called it Rabbit Ears plant. It is very low to the ground and it took me a few takes to get it all in at the right angle. BTW, I think it is much better if you look at this image in large format – just click on it and it will be open in higher quality and larger format. Thanks for stopping by!

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Dysfunctional

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They do work in a beautiful and impressive building. They sure do fail at their job.

Today I didn’t look at any news till this evening and all you can hear now on the news is that US Congress failed at getting some type of compromise. Markets are in red, triple digits. What little money average folks had, got much smaller. This is a depressing way to start Thanksgiving week.

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Lavender Row

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About 30 minutes north from the Mt Hood there are a few lavender farms. They are pretty darn awesome. I believe this farm is called “Lavender Valley”, probably because Mt Hood is in its backyard, day and night. No Mt Hood in it today, but it is coming sometime soon. This is a bee paradise, they are swirling all over these flowers collecting some sweet honey. You can see a few of them in this photo as well. We got some lavender oil and some bags with smelly flowers for presents back home. This area is probably very popular with Portlanders, nice place to have second vacation home or a small cabin for weekend getaways.

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Moss Stalactite

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What is cool in Savannah?

I’m planning on a short trip to Savannah Georgia. Any recommendations on what to see and photograph there?

Living Moss Stalactite

While hiking around Grandfather Mountain I stepped off the trail to take care of some needs and saw an opening to a short drop of the rock and from there a lot of spongy looking moss. It looked interesting so I decided to check it out and discovered a huge moss hanging off the little rock cliff. It is a living moss, growing down and some day will probably reach the ground beneath it. Nature wonders, pretty cool.

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