Monthly Archives: April 2010 This is the Cogan House (sometimes known as Buckhorn) Covered Bridge which runs 190 feet across Larry’s Creek near the town of Trout Run. It was built in 1877 and utilizes a Burr Arch design. The bridge is open to vehicular traffic although the road at the far end of the bridge dead end’s at...  Pennsylvania Railroad passenger coach cars line up for “departure” in front of the rail station facade within the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. The coach in the foreground is # 3556, a PF class, built in Altoona Pennsylvania in 1886. It is made of wood construction. You can see the summary engineering drawings for its construction...  I made my fifth visit to the Kreidersville Covered Bridge on Sunday 4-18-2010. The previous four photo shoots resulted in either less than inspiring compositions on my part or completely wrong conditions on Mother Nature’s part. My last visit was the day after a heavy snow fall only to find that there was less than...  The Humpback Covered Bridge was built in 1857 and is one of the few remaining covered bridges in the country that was built significantly higher in the center section to allow safe passage of both boats and winter ice below it. It’s the oldest remaining covered bridge in the state of Virginia. It crosses the...  “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We...  I wish I remembered where this barn actually was but the on-camera GPS geotagged this as being in a location in the middle of the woods where it couldn’t possibly have been. I know it was near the end of a very long downhill road before it joined up with another road. Sometimes you just...  Great Blue Heron stops for a rest during a preening session on the end of Bear Swamp. From my Saturday morning 4-10-2010 trip to the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge outside of Smyrna, Delaware. For more information on the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, visit their web site athttp://www.fws.gov/northeast/bombayhook/. For more information on Great Blue... |
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