Highspire Fire Department

Citizen's Fire Company of Highspire. 272 Second Street, Highspire, Pa. Dauphin County Company 55. Sorry but the website really tells you nothing about the company, except that the are either the Highspire Fire Department, Highspire Fire Company No. 1 or the Citizens Fire Company No. 1 of Highspire. I did find something about a 100th anniversary in 2009. They run two engines out of this station. Oh yeah, I think I may have seen an old fire station a few block west of here. This Hurricane Agnes plaque is mounted between the apparatus doors, the Susquehanna River sits about 1200 feet from their front door.

I had posted this before. This was taken by me at the 1981 Dauphin County Convention Parade.

Sunset from the Beach

Yes, this proves that it is possible to sit on the Atlantic Beach and watch a beautiful sunset at the same time. We were on the southern end of the public beach on Assateague Island, Virginia, watching the sun fall over Tom's Cove and the southern end of Chincoteague Island.

Feathers in the Grass

Looks more like a crime scene. I'm not sure if this is the abrupt landing zone from a hunters shotgun blast or a coyote's dinner table. I just know the colors of these ring-necked pheasant's sure caught my eye.

Home on High

This is our tent. Sitting at 10,700 feet above sea level. Home sweet home for a week.  Second picture (first panorama) is standing at the front flap. Wood stove to the left, gun rack and three bunks. On the right was the cooking prep table, the cooking facilities, food storage and the other three bunks.As you can see the table sat right inside the front flap. Two Coleman lanterns hung from the main beam. This is the first year we had a floor attached to the tent. made for a lot less dust.

Header Review 11

I kind of forgot to do a Header Review last month, so here it is now. These are the headers from the past six months.

• May 2012 - this is the front of our new fire station. The lettering was not done yet. And on June 16, 2012 the Vigilant Hose Company No. 1 and Shippensburg Area EMS dedicated their new home on the intersection of Walnut Bottom Road and East Orange Street in Shippensburg, Pa.
• June 2012 - Mimmo's Pizza played host to the Outskirts this month. Mimmo's sits on the intersection of Hunting Park Avenue and Henry Avenue in the City of Philadelphia. Brought to you by Blah Blah Soda.
• July 2012 - scenes from the March to Destiny street skirmish. Shippensburg was occupied by Confederate troops in late June and early July of 1863 while the troops made their way to Gettysburg. Shippensburg commemorate this every year on the last weekend of June.
• August 2012 - details of the Market Street National Bank , now the Residence Inn, in center city Philadelphia.
• September 2012 - scenes from Charm City. The Orioles outfield celebrates another win, too bad it wasn't against to evil empire in October before the Yankees rolled over and played dead for the Tigers.
• October 2012 - Home Away From Home; downtown Eagle Colorado. The brick building on the left? The Brush Creek Saloon... Pork & green chiles and a draft Fat Tire. Well worth the 29 hour drive.

Solitary Lake

Camp sat about 100 yards from the shore of Solitary Lake. Unfortunately for the fishermen in camp it offered no relief from the mid-day boredom. But it did supply us with all the water we needed. We looked across it the first night in camp and watched a couple of mule deer doe feeding on the hillside below where I am standing. 

Afternoon Skies

While elk hunting the one thing you want is a change in the weather for the worst. Something to get the elk moving from the higher dark timber and on the move to the lower meadow and eventually down to lower elevations. That would have been ideal conditions. But by 10:30 every morning the temperatures were in the mid to high 40's, blue skies and sunshine. This kind of weather makes the elk find cooler shelter in the dark timber to rest during the day. It does the same for flat land hunters who wander around the high country every other year.