World's End Winter Camping Trip Postponed

We were going to go to World's End this week for our winter camping experiment. I couldn't wait to get out into the woods. It's so dark and serene at night, a roaring fire good book, and me with my long exposure photo plans.We bought snow shoes and tried them out when we had the big snow in Philly
Turns out that all the rain coupled with freezing conditions caused the Loyalsock Creek to flood wiping out the bridge to the cabin area at Worlds End. I didn't realize just how devastating this was until I came upon a photo album of the flooding.




We've always gone in the fall, the creek is pretty low,lots of rocks along the edge. This year we tent camped, getting back to our camping roots. Our favorite site is walkin in site 61.
We're heading back up at the end of March. Might be cold, spring will be in the air.

365 1/25/2010 the moon at sunset on cedar

365 1/25/2010 the moon at sunset on cedar, originally uploaded by karenchristine552.

it rained all day really crazy intense warm rain then, as I arrived home the sky cleared. The sun came out.

365 1/24/2010 Dense staple patterns on a telephone pole on 47th

365 1/24/2010 Dense staple patterns on a telephone pole on 47th, originally uploaded by karenchristine552.

Sunday is tough for the 365.Out to work early, in late. Elliot has the computer with CS4 all day.Took this while walking Georgia this morning. I'm interested in filling the frame with a dense object then looking at the activity in the background the shapes that occur.

The Winter Garden

While darkness keeps me from a daily visit, I do get to the garden a few times a week. I check things out what is growing- I gathered chickweed for a salad on Thursday. I look at the progress of withered things.The effect of freezing and thawing on the few peppers I left standing.
The've developed a transucency that, when photographed at sunset is lovely. There are herbs to gather and store for the week. Sage, Thyme and Rosemary are still quite viable, I've even gathered some mint although it is mostly withered.

It is time to get those seed orders in. I'm late this year, I'll take the cataogs to world's End next week to plan my strategy. I favor Abundant Life, Natural Seed Company, Seeds of Change and Johnny's. No catalogs so far from the latter two, maybe they've gone paperless!

New Years Photography and Plants

Time to put those New Years Resolutions in print.
1. 365 Photos one a each day, no cheats.
Hop on the exercise machine every evening. A good idea let's see if I do it more than a week.
Continue the garden photos every week.
I missed this week because of the holidays and it's so darn cold. I was the first to open the gate after the 21 inch snow on the 19th.
Start project - "Pottery as image and places seen."
Evaluate the seed situation and make great choices based on what worked last year and what I saw and wanted and regretted not planting. Continue documenting the garden even when the light is faint.

A book a week. Teen counts.
Continue the flickr project. Addiction to creative projects is good.