Keeping with ThemeWeek: PA Coal Country and getting a new Painted Gentleman out there I found this King Midas Flour ad on the side of the Coaldale Borough garage at Fifth and West Water Street. King Midas flour has been around since the early 1900's and still hold on today. It is now owned by ConAgra, This ad has graced the garage for as long as I can remember. Obviously someone is taking care of it. These ads were most likely from the 1930's or 1940's.
Rimsko Katolicky Slovensky Kostel, Ss Cyrila a Metoda.
ThemeWeek: Pennsylvania Coal Country. For the third year now, on Father's Day, I go for a ride somewhere, spend the day taking pictures and soaking in the area. By myself. This year I chose to return to the Coal Region of Schuylkill and Carbon Counties in northeastern Pennsylvania. An area I sort of grew up in. An area I haven't seen in nearly 13 years. Today it is Coaldale, my mother's hometown. This place was depressed when I was a kid and it seems to have lost some of the life it had back then. The streets all still looked the same. The same potholes still need filled, the streets that needed paved 15 years ago still need paved. Very little was new, for the most part what once was is now gone. All the Catholic churches in Coaldale had be shuttered, all but one in Lansford have closed up. Along with several Protestant churches. I can remember all the ethnic churches. Now it's all one. And that one is in the next town down the road. I found these to be the real focus of my day.
Not just somewhere, this is the intersection of East King Street and Prince Street. I swung into the firehouse last night but ended up waiting out a short downpour. From my position on the front bumper of the pumper I couldn't see too far east. When I went to leave, though, this is the view I was treated with. Coming up from Washington Street and arching up over the Presbyterian Church. And if you look to the upper left of the picture you will see parts of the twin inverted rainbow above it.
Cadillac Mountain at Acadia National Park on Mount Dessert Island in Maine was a hit or miss visit when the family vacationed there two years ago. Being the beginning of July one would expect warmer temperatures. One would be wrong. Most days on the island we were sweatshirted up until lunch time. 60 degrees was what it warmed up to by 10 or 11 AM. And forget about views, a constant fog kept the sightseeing close. I still found things to do while the rest of the truck was busy trying to find and take advantage of every square inch of cell service the could twist themselves into. Finally on the next to last day the skies opened enough to show off what so many people had told us about. What a view. The third pictures shows the town of Bar Harbor and to the left is Bar Island. The last picture was the view from Cadillac Mountain on our second day of sightseeing.
Lots of participation this week, thanks. First station is Hampden Township Fire Company, Station 1. Cumberland County Company 30. Situated at 1200 Good Hope Road, Mechanicsburg this station was just built in 2008 (I think). The old station sat in front of this one. Apparatus at the Northside Station includes Engine 1-30, Engine 4-30 and Truck 30. Station 2, the Southside Station, was featured on Name that Station 21. The second is a station I'm surer that less than maybe two regulars here have seen. This is East Pennsboro Ambulance Service, Inc., located in the township building off of 750 Humer Street in Enola. In 1987 the West Enola Fire Company and Summerdale Fire Company merged their ambulance services to form the EPAS. By 2002 EPAS was a stand alone organization. 
Moonshine and overexposure. Taking picture of the moon can be very deceiving. It's dark so you think, "slow shutter". But the moon is actually very very bright. But if you speed up the shutter you lose all the landscape around it. So I set the camera on a tripod and used the self timer so I wouldn't move or shake the set up. Set the camera settings to f5.6 and ISO 100. Top picture is at 4/10 of a second, the next is at 1/100 second and the third at 4 seconds. The last two are at 2 seconds and 1/125 second.
