Working Fire Dispatch

These pictures are from a recent house fire. You may have seen them on the Vigilant's website or even on WGAL channel 8. I was going to working up other pictures from this fire for today's post but realized these were some of the best of them and why wouldn't I post the best here?

Beach Sunrise

You could be here.

Gravel Springs Lutheran Church

I have attempted this effect on several different occasions and I think that this has got to be my best effort to date. This is the Gravel Springs Lutheran Church in Star Tannery, Virginia. Someday I'll post one I took further back the road with the fall colors are all around it. Today though all this is a result of a comment on my Barn Charm post last week, When I checked out the comment by Carole and found her site WhatDoYouMeanByArt, where I picked up this frame (in white) and the rusty pipe I used for texture, I thought I'd give it a whirl. I could almost pass this one off as old, don't you think?

Pizza and Snow Stuff

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E4Lt asked for snow and he gets it. I took approximately 15 snow pictures on Saturday. Sorry. But when I passed by Pizza and Stuff and saw the Pizza delivery Snowman I circled the block and took these from the gas station across the street. Some day I'll get around to taking more pictures of Fernando's place. He has the only decent neon in town since John and Mary's Pizza House shut down. And now the snow is nearly gone and we seem to be returning to autumn, with the exception of all the tree branches that fell down. I might just get some more fall color pictures next weekend, if there is any left.

It's the Great Pumpkin!

Well, OK, it's not really the Great Pumpkin, but you have to admit that it is a Pretty Good Pumpkin. Maybe even a Really Awesome Pumpkin. I just don't think it's all that Great. I was driving around looking for something else a couple of weekends ago and I stumbled onto this pumpkin patch. I hear that I should have been there yesterday after the snow storm. I'll just do that the next time we get 8 inches of snow before Halloween. Will there still be blogging then?

Header Review 9

Time for my semi annual header review. Just a reminder and to help explain when I change headers at the beginning of each month the old one goes away. This post  helps save them for historical purposes and evidence.

• May 2011 - This is the New York City skyline shot from the Brooklyn Bridge Park in August of 2009. The title is a play on the Saturday Night Live beginning.
• June 2011 - Blue skies behind raindrops. The raindrops are on the cars windshield.
• July 2011 - This is an old Mack MC fire engine that once belonged to the Diligence Fire Company in Summit Hill, Pa. It is now privately owned and sitting beside the Coaldale Fire station. Taken on Fathers' Day 2011.
• August 2011 - The Angela Theater in Coaldale, Pa. playing my favorite show. Also taken on Fathers' Day 2011.
• September 2011 - A sunflower I found growing at the State Game lands in western Cumberland County, Pa. I tried to make it look like I wrote on it with a sharpie. Taken in August 2011.
• October 2011 - What is left of the aspen color in Colorado. Taken out of the truck window along Interstate 70 somewhere between Idaho Springs and Vail, Colorado in October 2010.

I am finally up grading the look of the site after four and a half years and one thousand six hundred posts. I hope you like it. For years now I have wished I could post buigger pictures and I think that day is here. Thanks for stopping by.

Star Tannery Volunteer Fire Department

To finish up ThemeWeek: Shenandoah Valley, and since it is Fireday Friday, I am featuring Frederick County Virginia's Company 17, Star Tannery Volunteer Fire Department  Inc. The fire station sits at 950 Brill Road in downtown Star Tannery. The department was founded in 1971 and the firehouse was once a poultry processing business. Company 17 run with 2 engines, a tanker, an ambulance, a brush truck and a utility. Interestingly they are the only department in Frederick County without career personnel. While they have no website of their own I did find this page with information.

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