So today I thought we would take a quick look at the new welcome center in Ohiopyle, Pa. I really liked the shadow that was cast from the fence.
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If your ever in the Ohiopyle area I recommend you stop by Falls Market general store and restaurant. Every time I’m in the area I stop by for a drink and a great chocolate chip cookie.
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Today in the blistery wind and snow, I decided to visit the Petersburg Toll House located in Addison, Pa. The toll house was built in 1835 from the native stone in the area. It was referred to as gate number one as it was the first toll house after crossing the line between Maryland and Pennsylvania. The tolls collected were used for maintenance of the road and to pay the toll collector who lived in the toll house. Toll houses were typically built about 15 miles apart on the National Road. #2eightphotography
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Today I just have a simple question.
Anybody for a picnic?
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So today I thought we might visit another iron furnace. This one is located in Wharton Township in Fayette County, Pa. Built in 1837 and first fired in 1839 this stone structure remained in operation until 1873. The structure measures 31 feet deep, 31 feet high, and 33 feet high. #2eightphotography
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I don’t know how many of you are train photographers, but several of my friends are quite good at it and I thought I would try it myself. So yesterday during my travels I decided that I would wait near a set of tracks and get a quick shot of the next train. Well let me say that waiting is just what I did. About an hour before the train showed up and by then I was about done waiting. Just as I was getting ready to hit the starter, I heard the distinctive noise of the gates dropping to warn oncoming traffic. So I grabbed my camera jumped out of my vehicle, ran to the spot that I had picked, and turned to see the train was right in front of me. An important side note to think about is that I didn’t hear the train until the air horn went off and if you were on those tracks you wouldn’t be alive right now. So if you going to try your hand at taking train photos STAY OFF THE TRACKS. So the result is not what I intended, but it’s a train and now I have a goal of getting better train photos.
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Finish the day with a sunset in the mountains. Now that’s the way to spend your day off from work.
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Start the morning off with a sunrise in the mountains.
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Something that I miss is advertising on the side of buildings. There’s just something about a sign on the side of a building.
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Ok I don’t rant about things very often but tonight I just have to COMPLAIN about an issue. But, before I do that I want to ask how many of you remember a movie called “Falling Down” staring Michael Douglas?
A middle-aged man dealing with both unemployment and divorce, William Foster (Michael Douglas) is having a bad day. When his car breaks down on a Los Angeles highway, he leaves his vehicle and begins a trek across the city to attend his daughter’s birthday party. As he makes his way through the urban landscape, William’s frustration and bitterness become more evident, resulting in violent encounters with various people, including a vengeful gang and a dutiful veteran cop (Robert Duvall).
So if you remember the movie, you might remember the scene when he goes into a restaurant and orders a sandwich and it doesn’t look anything like the picture on the menu. Well that’s exactly what my RANT is about tonight. I stopped by a fast food place tonight and grabbed a quick sandwich. I ordered a grilled chicken sandwich that looked really good on the menu and what I got when I opened it at home was NOT what the photo looked like. So my question is, at what point did we as a society decide that it was ok for these places to serve this?
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