Teddy Bear and His Co-Regent regard K’an, Ch’ien; Await Li, Tui
Teddy by the tracks
I saw this in the former Miller Yard in Virginia. I don’t know what it means. It’s a little teddy bear tied to hollow tube that holds a tool the train guys use for something (I really know a lot about whatever it is I’m writing about….really). It’s all covered in coal dust.
Mask
You just never know what you’ll see if you look up while walking in downtown Greeneville:
On the Porch
I was sitting in a friend’s Florida room, formerly a porch, when this combination of color caught my eye. It yielded an interesting picture, after I slapped it around with Photoshop.
Red Spotted Newt
Yep, saw this little skitterer while walking the rails in Southwest Virginia.
Bird, maybe
It does look a little like a long-necked bird with a curved and pointed beak, doesn’t it. It’s what’s left of a small tree. Ain’t nature fahcinating!
Coke ovens
Coke ovens, in this configuration and in the beehive configuration, used to be thick on the ground around this area of Wise County. We’re near Pine Branch and these are a few of the 60 remaining derelict coke ovens…there used to be over 300 here, with railroad access, from around 1920 to about 1980. They were used to burn coal in the absence of oxygen to produce coke, which burns cleanly at high temperature. Catnip, as they say, for steel makers.
Honk
I saw this in the street outside an abandoned grocery store in Cumberland, Kentucky. It was early on a Sunday morning. Must have been some Saturday night…
Mom’s button box
This thing has to be a half-century old now. Mom always had to have a good supply of buttons, since she sewed a lot.
Looking out of the tunnel
There’s a nameless tunnel in Whitesburg KY. It was once used by the L&N before the line went out of use in the late 80s or so. The tunnel’s not very long, maybe 100′ or so, and features a creek running through it. This is looking out the eastern face of the tunnel.
Barns in the morning sun
This is actually just off a busy highway in Weber City VA. The morning sun made the shot.
FinePix F200EXR, 1/125 at f11. ISO 200
Snow Trees
I took this on Bays Mountain just after a wet snow had blown into the area.
Florist Shop – Christmas
This greenhouse is no longer in existence. Many years ago, I was out walking on a snowy evening and saw these Poinsettias through a fogged window.
About
I’ve taken a lot of pictures. Both of my brothers were, at one time, newspaper photographers. I had a camera that I was actively using (when I could afford film and processing) when I was 12 years old. I was a newspaper photographer for a brief time, too and was a camera repairman for about a decade, before the cameras became the digital delights that there are now. I love ’em, but I’m strictly a compact camera guy. I have four or so, and I possess an Olympus with a 2.0 lens and it would have scared the holy crap out of me ten years ago. I know somewhere in the manual it tells me how I can use it to communicate with aliens…
These are some of my pix. I claim copyright on all of these. I can’t imagine why, but it you should happen to copy them to another site, gimme credit, por favor.
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