A Very Busy Week

An early morning fire on Monday, the 20th, burned down a garage on the Galovich farm in Susquehanna Township.

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This praying mantis sculpture was once part of a extermination company along Route 30 in Somerset County.

This old barn sits along Route 711 north, just outside of Ligonier, PA.

Johnstown, PA as seen from the top of the Incline Plane.

Old steel mill, Johnstown, PA

Twice a year, this area is either filled with bikers or musical enthusiasts, or both, as the case may be. Seen here is the Johnstown train station. In June Thunder in the Valley takes over the area and in September it hosts Johnstown FolkFest.

Tioga Street Market, a mom and pop operation in the boro of Westmont, PA.

Johnstown, PA from ground level.

Monument to Michael Strank, one of the Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima, 61 years ago today (23Feb06).

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Even as the Olympics go on in Torino, Italy, The Pennsylvania Special Olympics Winter hockey games are held on the campus of Saint Francis University.

Blair County Vs. Berks County

Clinton County Vs. Blair County

This is the true spirit of the Special Olympics.

The Catalyst

This is the catalyst without all the movement. It is part of our gravity fed oil-burner system.

February 16, 2006

These ladies were honored by the Carrolltown Volunteer Fire Company for all their years of service.

The Carrolltown Volunteer Fire Company also honored several men for their years of service.

After nearly three years of being held captive and made to wander throughout Penn's Woods, this metal T-Rex, belonging to local metal artist Roland Paronish, was returned home Friday afternoon, after being released from police custody in Northern Cambria, PA.

The artist at work in his shop.

A photographer's rendition of a iron worker's art.

Staff and faculty overlook student pottery pieces for the silent auction held by the Northern Cambria High School National Honor Society.

A pile of dirt from a new underground mine sits behind an abandoned barn near Stifflertown.

An old house along Route 286 in Indiana County, PA on the Burnside-Montgomery Township line.

Normally a ground feeding bird, this Chipping Sparrow eats at a suet feeder.

A Downy Woodpecker works at eating while ignoring the snow on the top of the suet feeder.

Working for it's lunch, this Nuthatch stretches to reach the suet feeder.

Goldfinches

A gas war, which started in the Berlin, PA area, of Somerset County, expanded to Somerset city.