Monthly Archives: August 2011

No more pencils, no more books, no more teacher’s dirty looks…

This one-room schoolhouse is located on Allemaengel Road in New Tripoli, PA. It sits in a farm field and was converted, at some point, from a school into a storage building for the farmer who’s land the building sits on. The sliding door that the farmer installed on the front is now missing but the...

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From the age of iron and wood…

I went down to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania on Sunday to try some new things. I knew they were undergoing construction on a new geothermal heating and cooling system and that there would be a few things that would be cordoned off but when I got there I found that most of the locomotives...

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“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.” –Winston Churchill

I found several Ponies grazing in a field next to the Red Caboose Motel and Restaurant in Strasburg, PA on Sunday. I had to wait about an hour to get one of them lined up with the American flag on the fence and the Amish farm in the background. While I was waiting, a baby...

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“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” –Henry Ford

A line of the many antique Model “A” Fords on display at the 48th annual Das Awkscht Fescht classic car show in Macungie Park, Macungie, PA. The show runs August 5,6,7th and includes just about every conceivable type of classic car you can imagine. For more information on visiting the show, check out their web...

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The road to agriculture

I was rummaging through a box of my old camera stuff on Thursday night and I came across an old Tamron 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 LD lens that I had in its original box from when I bought it back in 1999. The last time I remember using it was at least ten years ago. So I...

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“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” –Rabindranath Tagore

This is a West Coast Lady Butterfly from the Hershey Gardens Butterfly House. I blended several textures from the commercially available texture packs from Paint The Moon Textures and Flypaper Textures to give it the artistic look I wanted.

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Stillwater Schoolhouse (Columbia County, PA)

This is the renovated one room school house in the tiny village of Stillwater Pennsylvania which resides along route 487 in Columbia County Pennsylvania. The school house was renovated and re-sided within the last few years. It is located right next to the Stillwater Covered Bridge. According to the year 2000 census, the population of...

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