I just couldn't resist this one. It is a "building," i.e., a house, sort of, and a real fixer-upper. Looks like it needs a new roof and that someone has tried to force entry at the front door. At least the foundation appears strong. Should have repairs soon or it might be on the ground in a few more years!

Seen on the road while "bridging" (def: traveling to photograph covered bridges). In the Hundred, WV, area circa 2007 and taken with a Kodak P&S. Upon revisiting this same area a few years later, this barn with the Mail Pouch advertisement was no longer standing, having succumbed to old age. RIP old fella.

Covered bridge in NEW Baltimore, Somerset County Pennsylvania. Built in 1879. Bridge is 86 feet long and of multiple king post construction. One of 10 Somerset County bridges, it was destroyed by floods in the winter of 1996 and restored in 1998.

This is also a NEW photo of this bridge, taken in the summer of 2023 via DSLR; original photo of this bridge was probably taken circa early 2000s and on film!

Portal into the fog, or perhaps another dimension!

Covered bridges are my favorite targets...250+ and counting. Hunting down covered bridges takes one to all kinds of interesting places, mostly in scenic rural locations.

This is Deer's Mill CB in Montgomery County, IN, which is in the vicinity of the "Covered Bridge Capital of the World" Parke County, IN. Taken in the summer of 2022.

I call this one "Fall Splendor."

Wonder what's around around the next corner?

Location: Western MD, fall 2011, basic Canon point and shoot.

The Blackwater River upstream a short distance from the falls of the same name. Location: Blackwater Falls State Park, Davis, WV, the beginning of October fall 2021.

Somewhere in New Hampshire, mid October 2019.

I'm sure it looks like this now up there, and while it's still mostly green here, the trees are getting ready to strut their "stuff" for the leaf peepers!

Just a small hidden gem in the forest. There is another waterfall just downstream from this one where a photographer can capture the pair in one shot, but the footing is made treacherous to gain that perspective by all the loose rocks and the steep sides of the stream bed. I wonder how long it will take the water to erode the stone away back to a nearly level surface somewhere upstream from the falls? Cole Run Falls, in Forbes State Forest, Pennsylvania.

One last waterfall for the day, this one in my "backyard." I remember this picture very well, as I had just gotten my camera as a Christmas present to myself and had always wanted to take "silky" water images. Well, I accomplished that task with this picture, but it should have been titled "frozen" water images; not that the water was frozen, but with the temp in the single digits this day just about everything on me was frozen, especially my fingers from trying to set the camera! I thought the B&W image was appropriate for this shot, as the falls did not have as much impact in the color one. This is Muddy Creek Falls, Maryland's highest waterfall, in Swallow Falls State Park, Garrett County, MD.

Here's a waterfall a bit closer to home, Blackwater Falls, in the WV state park of the same name, at Davis, WV. This is one of many (38 and counting) waterfalls in West Virginia's "Waterfall Wanderer" waterfall trail. I've bagged 6 of them (and got a nice car window sticker for my efforts), mainly because many are in the New and Gauley rivers area, a bit of a drive from home, or require a hike to reach. The color of the water is created from the peat leeching in upstream Canaan Valley. LOTS of water flowing over the falls in this picture.

Here's a waterfall picture with a 2-for-1, a waterfall AND one of Ohio's many covered bridges. Taken many years ago with my point-and-shoot. Fairfield County, the location of this picture, is to the east/southeast of Columbus.

Sunrise on a boathouse on Big Rideau Lake, near Rideau Ferry, Ontario, Canada.

Sunset on the Big Rideau Lake, near Rideau Ferry, Ontario, Canada.

I call this one "Angels Field."

Flight 93 memorial site October 2005, when it was only a grassy field and a gravel parking lot.

Thanks! Planned to take the shot in the a.m., but the light was coming from the wrong angle. Good thing I passed it again on my way home from the environmental center. Since I couldn't pinpoint or remember exactly where it was located on the route I was to travel, I couldn't use any of the shot planning software to give me the best time to be there.