Water, water, water at Glacier NPS

Glacier National park has water, water and more water. Especially when they have a large amount of snow which turns to water in..... August. It does melt sooner but there was plenty of snow in August.  This first one is snow melt which creates many waterfalls but only when there is melting snow. Other times there is just no waterfalls.

Here is a nice silky stream shot which mini-waterfalls coming down individual rocks in the stream.

And where does all the water go when the snow melts, goes down that waterfalls, down the crreks, streams and rivers - into one of several but here is Lake McDonald located on western side of the park.  This was a lovely sunset which provided nice colors for the clouds.

Glacier NPS - Two Medicine and St Mary Lakes

Starting off we have sunrise a Two Medicine Lake in the South East Corner of Glacier. This is a view of Sinopah Mountain. Clouds? Must have been at the other end of the park...

Clouds - here they are!  Goose Island in St Mary Lake provides an iconic site for the sunset with heavy cloud cover but we did have some nice streaming of final sunlight.

Sunset on St Mary Lake - Glacier National Park

I had a great trip to Glacier National Park. It was one of the more rugged trips which required a long drive to the park, a long drive from the accommodations to any of the sites and a long time to drive from one side of the park to the other side. It was worth it. Sure hope you enjoy the sunset - it was more beautiful in person.

Amusement Rides at Knoebels

We love, just love, going to Knoebels Amusement Park in Pennsylvania. It is a great family retreat with old fashion everything and nothing like the cement covered parks found at other locations. The night is especially neat with the rides being lit up. here is a shot of the ferris wheel.








And not to be outdone, the chair swing ride, sometimes called a swing carousel, is also a great photo op.

Cherry Blossoms

The cherry blossoms on the Tidal Basin in Washington D.C. came very early this year due to the warm early spring that we had. I unfortunately was not able to get down and get any shoots this spring due to competing efforts. Here are two shoots from prior years.

This is a closeup of the flowers - nery nice colorlful centers and soft white petals.

Easton and Nazareth Pa

The Easton, Pa., Peace Candle has been a mainstay for many years going back to 1951. It is assembled over the Soldiers' & Sailors' Monument, a Civil War memorial located in the city's Centre Square. Easton was one of the three cities that the Declaration of Independence was read. And you thought Philadelphia had those rights all sown up.....













The Moravian settlement in Bethlehem, Pa., also had a smaller settlement in Nazareth Pa., being stone, this is one of the last remaining remnants from that time period. This is the Whitefield house built around 1740 - not bad for going on 300 years.

Technology of not so long ago......

This is a post of technology of days gone by.

First here is a fire suppression system. No, you do not pull the alarm and wait for the firemen to arrive.

You grab this red thing, called a bucket, and douse the fire with the sand or water in the bucket and then you go get some more. For this factory sand would not be very good for the gears so we presume these held water.









And what do we have here??

It's not a Kindle or the other brand's versions.

This is a paperback book.

It does have an interesting title, doesn't it??

Her Third Man.....










And lastly....

A forerunner of a keyboard....

Sort of, but it did not have a screen to go with it..

I will let you think about this one for a while.