A Little Excitement

Two weeks ago the tree at the back of our property was hit by lightning and took out the power line. They say lightning never strikes twice but for me, 10 feet is close enough to be the same place. This afternoon we had a nasty but very brief thunderstorm whip through again. Lightning hit our neighbor's tree. I heard the telltale chuffing sound of a deisel firetruck coming from the back of the house. Jake and I went to investigate and here are some of the resulting pics.

Thank you to the Harrisburg Fire Department once again; not just for doing what they do best, but for being good sports for the crazy barefoot chick taking so many pics.

Gettysburg Battlefield in Autumn: Part 2-Nature

Part one of my Autumnal Gettysburg photo shoot was devoted to the fog. Today is part two, nature. The land around the battlefield (where not already developed when the battlefield became a National Park) remains in a completely wild and natural state. On the morning of this shoot I startled two whitetail deer at the edge of the woods near the one end of Cemetery Ridge. Unfortunately, Mother Nature has done a phenomenal job with camouflage and I was unable to get a decent shot of them (a doe and fawn for the record).

The beauty here is not just in the somber monuments but often in the often overlooked displays large and small of time, and nature, moving on.