Archive for January 4th, 2024
Walking the line
Thursday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Cumberland, Maryland. I’ve been here before, as detailed in these posts. I was kind of going for a post card look in the shot above. Didn’t have to use filters or anything to make the water look reflective and mirror like, as the entire region had been down in single digit temperatures the night before, and there was lots and lots of ice on the water.
This is the mouth of the C&O towpath canal, which is discussed in one of the prior posts in the link above.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The emergent problem encountered, for a humble narrator, is that when you drive to place a hundred miles away you’ve also got to drive back home. The four hours of travel time seriously truncates photographic possibility, shortens the tenure of how long you’re willing to spend exploring, and causes you to question why you committed the time and gasoline to the endeavor.
This visit is part of my continuing attempts to visit and familiarize myself with the satellites of the Pittsburgh centered Megalopolis. Oil City and Titusville to the north, Wheeling in West Virginia, Cumberland in Maryland – all have been witnessed.
I’ve got a portfolio of future destinations – Morgantown in West Virginia, Cleveland in Ohio, Erie in Pennsylvania, all over this joint.
Cleveland and Erie, in particular, will require overnight stays due to distance and the length of the drive there. Definitely don’t want to execute a roughly 5 hour drive, and then have to just turn around and head back to HQ.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
That’s the North Branch of the Potomac River pictured above, with the left side of the shot in Maryland, while the right side is West Virginia.
Also, I should mention that as I’m old, I absolutely loathe driving at night – when adolescents prowl the interstates in Pickups, with no regard for law or custom. Additionally, you’ve got the ‘deer situation’ and ‘no street light dealie’ to handle out here. Brr.
As far as the aforementioned ‘deer situation,’ it is amazing how many ruminant corpses you’ll notice while driving along hereabouts, laying in shattered form alongside the roads.
Back tomorrow with more adventure for a strange man, in this strange land.
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