Bizzard Birds

Some more of the birds I had come to visit and feed off the birdseed sandwich. Top to bottom... White Throated Sparrow, I like how you can see the snow on the tips of his feathers... another sparrow and a junco and proof we had, at this time 19 inches of snow... Dark Eyed Junco, They're everywhere... White Crowned Sparrow... an American Goldfinch, eating the last of the thistle seed... and a Tufted Titmouse sharing the suet cake with a Downy Woodpecker.

Requiescant in Pace

I'm sure you all know how I love fire monuments, especially these old ones. This one stands at the York Fire Museum outside the old Royal Fire Station No. 6 in York city, PA. I posted pictures two weeks ago of the old fire station and you can see this monument sitting along the building. Sorry these pictures got a little blown out, it was mid-day and very bright. Also see... Cleveland... National Fire Academy... Carlisle, PA... National Fallen Firefighters Memorial... NFFM again... Old Yankee Stadium... Storm King Mountain... FDNY 9-11... FDNY Ten House... Harrisburg, PA... IAFF Memorial, Colorado Springs... and FDNY Squad 252.

SkyWatch and Snow on the Horizon

How can you look at his picture and wish for summer? This was taken last Sunday morning barely a week after Blizzard 1 and four days after Blizzard 2. The area where this was taken got more than three feet of snow in less than a week. But just look at that scene and tell me how mid-August, 95 degrees and 95 percent humidity can be better. Answer... It can't.

SkyWatch time again. Time to click on the icon in the right sidebar over there. Come on I know you want to try it.

Farmers Market (PG 137)

This is the last of the Chambersburg Gentlemen I found last month. All I can make out of this one is the "Farmer's Market" at the top. There is a yellow row of bricks that you'll sometimes find with Coca Cola but the squiggles under the MAR don't really look like Coke. I have driven past this one for years and never saw it until last summer when I was on King Street and there it was. Sitting on East Main Street it is hidden by the fact that East Main is a one way street the other way.

Neither Snow nor rain...

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"

Although the US Postal Service claims no official motto these words are engraved in the building of the New York General Post Office and people associate this to the USPS. Well last week's blizzard called for a postal snow day. It does get really rainy sometimes, too, and I hate it when the nights get really really gloomy. Just gives me the creep, you know.

The Field House at SU

Some more of my clandestine night manuvers at Shippensburg University over the winter break. This time it's Heiges Field House. This is basicly the gymnasium.

Cardinals in the Snow

Cardinals are red, Jays are blue... OK, bad Valentine's reference. It took a while. The didn't get too close on the day of the first blizzard, but they made an appearance the next day. And they showed up during the second blizzard. Heck, I had to stop posting right now because there is another one out there. It is really exciting to be able to watch these beautiful birds just 4 feet from my window. They seem to enjoy the birdseed sandwich.