What a Week!

The week started on Wednesday morning with the water line break in Northern Cambria and ended with a long Thunder in the Valley weekend in Johnstown.

Early in the morning, Wednesday, 22Jun05, a water main break, at Crawford
and Elder Streets in Northern Cambria. Borough crew on the job.

The next two pictures are of bands that participated in a fundraiser on
Sunday, June 26, for families of the fire victims from the recent
fire in Hastings.

John Deere tractor enthusiasts show off their restored tractors at the Cookport, PA
Antique Machine Show.

Ruby Throated Hummingbird

Our deck

Butterfly on a marigold

Day of the Triffids...or flowering spider hens and chicks

Blooming Coleus

Freshly painted red chairs

Front yard garden in Northern Cambria.

The next four pictures were taken in Johnstown at Thunder in the Valley.

In the Good Old Summer Time

A Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly on a marigold.

Shoppers stroll down Beaver Street during the Annual Hastings Craft and
Town wide yard sale.

Magoo standing proudly next to his new tap system. Magoo's is a biker bar in
Cresson, PA. Good food, good people, cold beer.

These two pictures, the sea gull and the sail boat, were shot
from the back yard of a Marine brother, in Brick, NJ.

Sunset looking west toward's Virginville, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

This building, which dates back to the Civil War, was involved in a killing
between Union troops, from New Hampshire and draft dodgers and war resistors.
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Swampy area along Route 53 near Madera, PA

McNulty Hardware, Coalport, PA

Killbuck Run as it flows into Glendale Lake, Prince Gallitzin State Park.

A power plant, unidentified, for national security reasons.

A bike, unidentified, for local security reasons.

Peony

Things That Fly

Although it is a stretch of the topic, "Things That Fly", these first two pictures, do have something to do with flight, that being the flight of a baseball.

On Friday of this week, not only did I get to photograph a bomber named for one of my childhood heroes, that being Brig. General Billy Mitchell, I also had the privilege to fly in the plane. This is probably the most exhilarating twenty minutes of my life, since Vietnam.

The runner for Spangler scores

Nanty Glo batter tries to lay down a bunt.

B-25D Mitchell Bomber "Yankee Warrior" taxis into the
Jimmy Stewart Airport, in Indiana, PA
http://www.yankeeairmuseum.com

The B-25D comes to a stop on the tarmac at the airport. The bomber, part of the Yankee Air Force, was on display during the weekend. This is the last flying B-25D in the country

Eleanore Stager, pilot of the B-25D

The Life Flight chopper at the Jimmy Stewart Airport in Indiana, PA

This old tail dragger is undergoing restoration in a hanger at the Jimmy Stewart Airport.

A female hummingbird at a feeder.

A root maggot fly on a dianthus.

A Silver-spotted Skipper Butterfly on a marigold

Swallowtail Butterfly on a marigold in a planter on our deck

Fun in the summer time

Our twins in front of the snowball bush in our front yard,
before leaving for the High School Graduation Festivities on June 2, 2005

Winners of the Carrolltown Fire Company Pan Fishing Contest held at Glendale Lake in Prince Gallitzin State Park, near Patton, PA. 17 pounds of pan fish wins $1,000. What a day!

Early shoppers at the Patton Annual Yard Sale, Saturday, 4 June 2005.

Fishermen on Glendale Lake, in Prince Gallitzin State Park, Near Patton, PA

A small group of bikers on a poker run in Coalport, PA.

Hairy fly (Actual species to be identified). If you can name it, please email us.

The most photographed bird house in Cambria County, PA.

Mourning Dove visits our front yard bird bath.

Reflections in a pond on a back road near Cherry Tree, PA.

Memorial Day and Tourist Sites

Veterans participating in the Memorial Day Parade in Patton, PA.

The Hastings Memorial Day Parade enters St. Bernard's Cemetery

Hastings Chief of Police Ronald Sharkey was honored during the Hastings Memorial Day Parade by the Hastings VFW for his heroic actions during the tragic fire earlier in May 2005.

Norfolk Southern train service facility at Cresson, PA.

This is a General Electric yard switcher at the East Broad Top Railroad.

Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel in Loretto, PA. The statue is of Prince Gallitzin, a Russian prince who became a Catholic priest and ministered to the early settlers of the area.

Cows at the Westrick Farm along Tower Road

Bee at a Rhododendron

Bee at a Rhododendron

Dianthus - This was taken in natural lighting using a 300 mm lens set on macro. The blackness in the background is actually a pine tree 20 feet behind the flower.

Dianthus