Taken last week at Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College.
Archive for the 'Pennsylvania' Category
I never got around to posting the photos from the April 24 5K walk/run event at the Philadelphia Museum of Art that benefited United Cerebral Palsy. Here are a select bunch from the night. If you would like to give a donation to United Cerebral Palsy of Philadelphia or if you would like to participate in one of the upcoming benefit events, please check out the UCP Philadelphia website.
Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve - New Hope, Pennsylvania
Zizia aurea (Golden Alexander)
Aristolochia macrophylla (Dutchman’s Pipe)
Galium sp.
Calycanthus floridus (Carolina allspice)
Rhododendron calendulaceum (Flame Azalea)
Rhododendron calendulaceum (Flame Azalea)
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper) - (through Zizia aurea)
Zizia aurea (Golden Alexander)
Zizia aurea (Golden Alexander)
Species unknown
Possible Lupine species?
Arisaema tripyllum (Jack-in-the-pulpit)
Daucus carota L. (Queen Ann’s Lace)
22
May
Deer at the Hair Salon
So apparently a white tailed deer went charging through the window of a local hair salon somewhere here in the eastern Pennsylvania area. A friend shared the story with me, which is worth the read, but the supporting photo is mine. And it just made me have a good laugh. Have a look at the article. LINK
This past Saturday, I met up with some of the other members of the Phildelphia Grid Project to head out to Germantown where we were interviewed for FOX 29 news. The segment aired that evening on the news. In case you missed it, you can check it out on the FOX news website. I’m glad that they blurred me out because I really didn’t want to be on the news.
Below are some of the photos that I took in the area that day, but I’ll probably be heading back out to the area again to capture more for this month’s grid.
It’s been a while since I’ve made any composite photos. I will often go for months without doing any of them and then go on a rampage of making a few of them. I often use 2-4 images. This one was made with two: the photo of the house and a texture image of some plywood.
I had gone to Gettysburg National Military Park with my parents about a month ago when I went to our cabin to relax during my recovery. Gettysburg isn’t too far from our cabin so we often go there when we feel like taking a drive. The sky was really overcast and generally crappy. And it was hot and humid. I didn’t feel like taking photos.
I normally don’t work this dark. But I went for dark. I will probably hate it tomorrow.
09
May
Kempton, Pennsylvania
I wrote about the adventure to Centralia last weekend. After Centralia, we briefly explored the town of Shamokin (which was NOT shamokin like Centralia was), another coal mining town in central PA. As we drove back to Philly, we took a slight detour to check out the very rural area of Kempton, near Hawk Mountain. Steve was sharing a spooky ghost story on the way there. Apparently, serial killer Matthias Schambacher and his wife had rented rooms in their house as a wayside inn to travelers. Rumors began to circulate that guests who had entered their house were never seen again.
Although his gravestone is now gone, Matthias Schambacher is buried in the supposedly haunted New Bethel Cemetery. We saw the general location of where he is buried, along with many other gravestones dating as far back as the mid-1700s on one side of the cemetery. The other side of the cemetery has recent gravestones and burials as recent as a few days prior to our visit.
The location of the cemetery was an absolutely stunning view from a hillside that overlooked the church and the valley. We were there at sunset and the weather seemed to make it a bit eerie, in my opinion…even though Steve kept trying to convince us that it was a peaceful place. Even a killdeer seemed be trying to give us a warning to leave the place. ghosts!!
04
May
Morris Arboretum
Last Sunday, Albert and I went to Morris Arboretum because they were having a 75th Anniversary Celebration, complete with free admission (which is normally $10), tours to areas of the arboretum that are generally not open to the public, free food, free entertainment, and many photo opportunities! Neither of us had ever been there, but had wanted to check it out. I had made it a goal to visit every arboretum and public garden in the general vicinity of Philadelphia this year….we’ll see if it actually happens because there are a lot in the area!!
It’s really difficult to believe that this incredibly beautiful place is located in the city of Philadelphia! And I also think that it’s my new favorite place in Philadelphia. Just gorgeous. I really can’t say anymore than that except that I can’t wait to go back.
And the ferns…..oh, the ferns. And there are redwoods, too!
I never got around to posting my March photos for the Philadelphia Grid Project. I got some useful images, but nothing that I was really happy with this time. However, we did check out a really awesome abandoned house that was in the process of being torn down and had some really cool remnants inside of it. March’s grid fell within west Philly, encompassing the area of Mantua where most of my photos were taken.
We had our meeting last night to review and discuss the photos. My photo to be entered into the archives for the month of March is the first one below: a photo of a Polaroid found in the abandoned house.
