Monthly Archives: March 2009 An Amish family returns from Sunday church services in their horse drawn buggy and tries to outrace a violent storm that descends upon the small farming community of Strasburg, Pennsylvania on 3-29-2009. I really felt bad for the horse because seconds after I took this, half inch sized hail began to pound down all around...  Reading Railroad Diesel Locomotive # 903 was one of the first six FP7s ordered by the railroad in March 1950 to replace passenger steam locomotives. It and sister Reading 902 were completed on June the 1st of that year and delivered to the Reading via the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The pair pulled their first...  So I spent the day at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in the small Amish farming community of Strasburg on Sunday 3-29-2009. The museum normally closes at 5:00 PM on a Sunday but they announced around 4:30 that they were “closing immediately !”, the rest of the announcement was a little muffled so I couldn’t...  Mallard Hen “Freeda” drags her tail along the surface of the water while landing on the Fleetwood Park Pond.  he giant Coplay Cement Company Kilns, located in the Saylor’s Park on North Second St., in Coplay, Pennsylvania which is not too far from Allentown. These giant ninety foot tall vertical Kilns were in use From 1893 to 1904 when they were superseded by more advanced cement kiln technology. In the 1920s all the surrounding...  Great Blue Heron swallows a small fish at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge outside in Oceanville, New Jersey which is just north of Atlantic City. This particular refuge features both fresh water and brackish (salt water) marshes and several nice forested trails. I spent the better part of the day on Sunday 3-22-2009...  I’m not even going to pretend to know what all these plants and flowers are but I really liked the arrangement and the fact that there was some water droplet action going on here in some of the leafy green areas. I shot this in the indoor conservatory at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA... |
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