West Virginia is for vacation!

It was nice to see some color, it was still pretty green up in Rhode Island at this time. A nice hike with lots of great views. 

The half way point of our hike, the water was so very nice.  Took off the boots and socks and soaked the feet. It was heavenly! 

A little up close of some nature.

Found some great abandoned buildings while in West Virginia as well. Like this old school, with still great windows. The sun was at a perfect location for this photo.

Great light coming through these blinds.

I love finding this survey markers, this was in kind of a weird location, we were heading up a mountain and we pulled of in an overlook, which is where this guy was. However he was at the start of the pull off, someone would of had to walk back to the road to see this. 

Such great color!

The closest I have ever got to a beaver dam. 

As you can tell we were in the mist/clouds. No awesome views from the observation tower. Looked very much like this. 

Another wet day, but that didn't stop us! Blackwater Falls. 

Even the poodle toughed out the rain!

Found a creepy abandoned hotel.

phone.

clicker.

Took this on the way home. 

Thanks to all. Had a great trip. I am making a weird face but whatever! West Virginia trip October 2017!

OHIO is very flat!

May 2017

So for my job, I travel to all over the country and sling camera equipment, it has it perks, like going all over the country, however I do miss my lady and my bed so it's hard to deal with sometimes.

This  last trip was the longest one yet. 12 days! It was the Biggest Week in American Birding, some sort of migration pattern in a marshy area in North West Ohio. 

I really didn't care much about the birds, I took the opportunity when I had it to wander and explore the area. Gathering plenty of branch images to use later!

Was able to find many old abandoned buildings, several had large animals living inside of them. The opossums (I would assume) sounded like they were like 50 pounds. Thankfully this garage was free of all wildlife, and it had great light coming in the windows!

Beautiful light!

Thankfully the show hours were not too bad, ended at 5:00pm each day so was wrapped up any where from 5:30 to 6:00... and it was light out till about 9:00 so plenty of time to explore!

Another building with more large sounding animals... or this is the one that might of had bats in it? Whatever it was I got out pretty quickly. 

Tiny little town, with some great painted brick advertisements...and a Taco Bell.

It was nice having a drive from our hotel to the event each day, gave me the opportunity to look for little things hidden in the landscape.  

Hazy hazy morning commute, the one day it was really windy and rainy I felt like I was in the movie Twister, which was kind of cool. 

It was an enjoyable trip and I was happy with a lot of the images I got while there. Trip was from May 4th till May 14th, and that Monday commute home was rough, left Ohio 3:00 am got home at 6:30pm.... till the next time!

Gary and me after we had to take everything out of the tent due to a tear from the rain and wind. Photo by Ray Nason