Monday, August 30, 2010

Perfectly Pretty Painted Lady...

...in downtown Orbisonia, PA; and just a few doors away is the Harvest Moon Farms Gift Shop and Produce Store. What a find! Some of the best produce I've ever had, including a golden watermelon, perfect and honey sweet. All grown on the owner's small farmette nearby, or by local growers or makers.

August 27, 1910....

...why not? Looks the same if only I'd edit out the street-light.

Your Classic Shot...Steam Engine Crossing Old Bridge...

...Hubsy got a series of these. He's very good and I keep encouraging him to start a photo / garden blog of his own!

Another of Hubsy's Rail yard photos...

...at East Broad Top.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

In the Rail Yard at East Broad Top....

...the old turn-table in the yard. What rail buffs love about this venue, aside from the narrow gauge, is the fact that when this rail line was abandoned as a business, it was not dismantled. Antique buildings and equipment are pretty much as they looked during the Civil War. Have no films been shot here? With high PA hills around, it is so atmospheric.

To Remember Dad's 103rd Birth Anniversary, Something Different

 My Grandparents on my Dad's side were both "bonus babies", kids who were born to much older parents, long after they expected...