weekend away II

On Sunday we stopped at the Maryland location of the Chesapeake & Ohio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_and_Ohio_Canal_National_Historical_Park%20Canal historic site. The canal was begun in 1828 and ran, when it was completed in 1850, 184.5 miles from Washington DC to Cumberland.

weekend away

This weekend, on a getaway close to Springs, Pa., near the western Maryland border, I ventured back a country road and saw this farm and its fence. The weathered wood of the fence posts exudes character. The junk is another thing.

day away at North East, Maryland

That's the name of the town; it's 42 miles away from Monterey, on the Chesapeake Bay. Go another 9 miles and enter Elk Neck State Park and walk a mile to the preserved lighthouse, which was last used in 1948, when the woman (see life-sized photo cut-out at door) retired. Step inside and look up at all 31 steps. Then climb an 8-step ladder and squeeze through the hatch to the look-out. We both made it to the top and down again. Cecil County bird club had a watch point along the trail where we sighted several eagles and ospreys. That was our Sunday sabbath.

more buggy wreck

In these four photos, the last taken at 8:24, we see the horse back on the road and the buggy uprighted. After this, three men pushed the buggy across my newly plowed field to the school house lane. In less than ten minutes Eby Road was open for traffic. This is how Americans get things done.