Cloud Reflections

I took quite a few photos at French Creek State Park in Pennsylvania.  Here is another one of them with nice foliage colors and some pretty cool cloud reflections.

Dam

Not the bad word.  It's a beaver dam on the edge of the pond at French Creek SP.  It's starting to flood some of the wooded areas.  A group of three women were trying to navigate their way around the dam when one of them slipped on a log and took a nasty fall.  I think she will be okay, but I'm sure she was hurting the next morning.  I think she said "damn" as she was going down!

Ooops

This is a photo of a Fruit Weevil.  There are many types of weevils and one of the things they all have in common is the long snout.

While looking for something to photograph, I thought I had spotted a weevil of some sort.  When I got home to look at my weevil photo, I discovered it was a piece of loose bark.  Time to make an appointment with my eye doctor.

Autumn Reflections

A couple weeks ago, Tater and I visited French Creek State Park in Pennsylvania.  The leaves were almost at their best and here is one of the photos we took.  I say "we" because Tater has shown some interest in taking pics also.

Look! Up In The Sky!

Look!  Up in the sky!  At least it's not another storm.  It's Superman...or Superboy...or super cute...or super something.  Anyway, everything is Inkscape vectors, including the sky and clouds.

Devastation

We got so lucky.  So lucky.  Hurricane Sandy made a direct hit in our area, but it had to go through the coastline first, particularly the Jersey Shore.  Places like Atlantic City and Ocean City got pounded.  Over 3 million homes lost power in the Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania area.  Here are some photos of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, most of them along the Jersey Shore.

The pin on this map shows where me and my family lives in Delaware.  We never even lost power while many people along the coastline lost everything. 

Trying to escape the waves and rising waters.

Impassable roads.

Devastation from the air.

The amusement park by Seaside Heights is destroyed.

Boardwalks are gone.

A huge tanker ship run aground.

The Hudson River empties into Ground Zero in New York City.

These are photos of how we were affected on the east coast of the United States by Hurricane Sandy.  As bad as all this is, the Caribbean country of Haiti was affected so much worse!  Many there had little or nothing to begin with and now what little they had was washed away.

Morning After

It appears that we survived Hurricane Sandy.  I awoke at 1:30 am to hear our windows getting pelted by wind, rain and debris.  I couldn't sleep and the biography of Son of Sam was interesting, so I stayed up till a little after 3:00 am.  It's still very windy (and cold) as you can see by this photo of tree limbs getting blown around, but things should improve throughout the day.