This is one of the Holm’s Brothers, a decades old collaboration that produced some really good music. We heard them the first time at the National Folk Music Festival in Richmond and again when it became the Richmond Folk Music Festival. Excellent entertainers. One of the brothers died in the last few years so I am not sure if they group is still touring but I would imagine they are still about. Lots of their music on iTunes.
Beacon Week One / 5 /
For our last LH - at the moment, we travel to Lake Superior and the Picture Rocks National Area. We were on a boat tour of ship wrecks when we passed this abandoned LH on an island off shore.
Beacon Week One / 4 /
Still on PEI this time on the Western edge of the island. This one was open for tours. Because the island is relatively flat the LH seemed to be a bit shorter than some of those I have seen in NC and other areas.
Beacon Week One / 3 /
Again, these were taken shortly after my first camera acquisition - still on AUTO, but I have reprocessed them in Luminar recently. But I did not keep very good records and don’t recall the name of this LH or its exact location. I do remember driving done a red dirt road so it too is likely on Prince Edward Island.
Beacon Week One / 2 /
Prince Edward Island is awash with lighthouses. What a beautiful place - really feels like another world with another culture that you just get to glimpse. I loved our time here. I “think” this LH was on the north end of the island not too far from the Anne of Green Gables home.
Beacon Week One /
We’ve done birds and beasts and house, now the sentinels of the coast, Lighthouses.
We will start with this one shrouded in fog on Campobello Island. We saw this one on a whale watching trip we took from St. Andrew by the Sea in New Brunswick, Canada.
Desolate /
This is in the north portion of Yellowstone National Park in the Mammoth Springs area. The land here is in contrast to much of the rest of the park and certainly not the primary images you would see if you simply looked for Yellowstone photos. I found this area very neat. They are specifically called Traventine Terraces and this one is near the Angel Terrace.
It reminds me of the land described in Jeremiah
“They have made it an empty wasteland; I hear its mournful cry. The whole land is desolate, and no one even cares. On all the bare hilltops, destroying armies can be seen. The sword of the Lord devours people from one end of the nation to the other. No one will escape!” Jeremiah 12:11, 12 NLT
And it is not in a Museum! /
Near a campground in Central Pennsylvania
Walk (2 Photos) /
This is another shot of the neat walk deep in the glen of Watkins Glen State Park. The rushing water and cascading falls keep everything a bit wet, particularly after a large rain storm like the one here right before we arrived. A very cool place.
Watkins Glen State Park, NY
Noise! /
These cotton looms are in Lowell, MA. There are more than 100 per floor and four floors. When we were there the ranger set a few, I think 7 or 8 to run and you could not hear anything else. No wonder so many of the operators became deaf during their working years. The dust, the noise, the danger of all that machinery, and many of the people who worked 6 long days still thought it was a better choice than farming.
Lowell National Historic Park
Forty-Eight /
We celebrate our 48th year of marriage today. The years include two fine sons, two wonderful daughters-in-law, spectacular & amazing grandchildren and a lot of vital friends who all have contributed so much to our lives. We have lived in 8 homes in four states, driven 28 cars (not counting the 18 various cars I owned while dating her!), visited 48 states multiple times and plan for more. We found comfort and strength in faith for each day and for financial and health challenges, served together in three different churches and worked together often in the same room we would call the office. She is strong in every facet of the word, compassionate, diligent, beautiful and a wonderful companion every day. We embark this month on a trek for nearly five months living in 90 square feet and looking forward to each of those days. How blessed am I.
Tower (2 Photos) /
The log structure reconstruction is a rifle tower that the Patriot troops built to fire into the Star Fort held by the Loyalists in Ninety Six, SC. I had never heard about these being used before the visit to this park. It makes sense but is was a difficult thing to build with-in easy firing distance of the fort. The second photo is one of those neat things you find occasionally like the road Washington marched to Yorktown - a least a portion of it, is found is some woods behind a shopping center in Williamsburg. This road was the one the Patriot Army marched on to arrive at the battlefield.
Ninety Six National Historic Site
Buzzzz (2 Photos) /
You are looking at the Bee Hive as it rises along side Ocean Drive in Acadia National Park. The shot is taken from Great Head and across Sand Beach. The second shot is my friend Laura on one of the ladders you climb to get to the top of the Bee Hive. A lot of fun.
Acadia National Park
Refresh /
This small waterfall is found in Tennessee along the Natchez Trace Parkway. This was in the same small valley that Fall Hollow Waterfall is found. I expect it was flowing more the spring day we were there than it would by summer. Very pretty short walk in the area.
Natchez Trace National Parkway
“The earth trembled, and the heavens poured down rain before you, the God of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.
You sent abundant rain, O God, to refresh the weary land.” Psalm 68: 8,9 NLT
Closer /
Here is a closer view of the Pawtucket Gatehouse in Lowell. (see post from April 29th) Opposite the structure is a lake acts as a reservoir for the canal. Imagine the work and planning that went into this in the late 1700’s.
Lowell National Historic Park
Another Nellieville (3 Photos) /
This is from the Western area with an active saloon.
Where Do You Buy Jelly? (2 Photos) /
This is a most unusual place to buy anything, jelly included. Located far down the Blue Hill peninsula in Maine, in the woods and off the road is Nervous Nellie Jellies. It is pretty good but a bit expensive. It is a local product and hand made but that is not the most unusual thing about the place. One of the owners is an artist with a very different type of art scattered throughout the woods surrounding NNJ’s tiny facility. Here is a church he built for “Nellieville” that I doubt is used as a church. It is one of multiple structures and “people” you will meet walking around. One very interesting fact on the church is that the wood - cut with a circular saw and air dried, was cut in 2013 from a mill that begin operating in 1794 when the ships were made of wood and belonged all this time to the same family. I will show a few more photos from the intriguing place.
Foggy Bottom /
Walking along the boardwalk that leads from the Wild Gardens you find yourself in an interesting landscape where the birch trees that grew after the fire are now dying as the more mature hardwoods dominate the forest. The neat grasses that fill the ground are thick and grow rather large.
Acadia National Park
Break of Dawn /
We hiked in the dark to Witch Hole Pond in Acadia and had a nearly perfect morning with lots of great shots. This one is a few moments before dawn.
Acadia National Park
Industry /
This canal was built in the late 1700’s and helped fuel the industrial revolution in the US. Lowell, Massachusetts, is a bustling city not too far from Boston. Across parts of the city is Lowell National Historic Park where you can tour old factories and lodgings and much more as the factory began to replace the farm as the center of working life. The mills were dirty and dangerous and the hours long. But pay was consistent and good - and you could advance with hard work and ingenuity. This section of town, like most of Lowell is a mixture of old, older and new- or at least repurposed buildings. There are restaurants and shops and, yes, still some factories and lots of high tech companies. The structure, Pawtucket Gatehouse, at the top of the photo was the water management control building for the great Northern Canal and provided power for scores of water driven mills and hundreds of machines. It, too, is over 200 years old.
