In checking my Flickr email this morning, I was surprised to see the following:
Photo and Photostream for the month of November.
Andrew, I am happy to inform you that your Photostream and photo of Glen Hope Covered Bridge will be featured in our Group for the month of November. The photo is really beautiful and we do appreciate you posting it with us.
Who would have thought, that back on July 4th, 2010, when I finally signed up for a Flickr Pro account, that three months later, I would be passing 10,000 views on my Photostream!
At that time, I had maybe 200 views, if I were lucky!
After joining and participating in numerous Flickr groups, I have been rewarded with the First of hopefully many Milestones in terms of viewers!
10,000 Views on Flickr Stats page!
Needless to say, I am HONORED I definitely would like to say thanks all my visitors!
And please remember to check back to see what new images I have posted!
Today was the Brownie Hay Ride at Yeager’s Farm Market on Route 113 North, just south of Phoenixville.
As soon as Madison got off the bus at 3:30pm, she was asking if it was time to go yet.
I tried my best to make her understand, that she still needed to wait for another two hours!
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She wasn’t buying it.
We did leave a little early, and were one of the first to arrive.
By 6pm, it seemed that everyone had arrived.
About 45 five to seven year old girls, 20 women parents, and myself. Talk about feeling like the odd “man” out…
Eventually, the group was herded on to a large Hay carrier, and toured the farm in country luxury.
All the girls were having a blast, which was easy enough to tell with all the screaming! (At one point, I did hear one of the mother’s say she wished she had brought aspirin because of the noise level!)
During the tour, I did manage to take a bunch of pictures, and those images will be posted on another site for all the Brownies and Parents to see.
Included here, are a few of the other images that I captured…
I was very lucky to get this capture. It was taken while standing up, as the tractor pulled the trailer over the dirt roads, as the sun faded.
Thankfully, I did capture it in raw/cr2, and was able to use Photoshop to bring out some of the lost details.
I had a very pleasant drive back to Downingtown via some very beautiful back roads. (Note to Self – Need to re-drive Route 163 South of Downingtown)
When I finally got to the intersection of Sugar Bridge Road and Rt. 322, where normally, I would have taken a Left on to Rt. 322, I could not.
Just in front of me, was the burned out shell of a SUV, that still was smoking and water was still being used to control the situation.
I made the required Right on Rt. 322, cut up Valley Creek Road, and on to Harmony Hill, down across Gibson, and finally a Right on to Rt. 322 toward downtown.
As the bridge came into view, I looked at the clock, and saw that I had about 30 mins till Madison got off the bus, so I made the Left on to Bradford Ave. and managed to find a small spot park just under some of the support legs.
I pulled out my gear, check the traffic, and crossed the road to the base of the extremely tall supports.
The leaves on the trees were still on the greenish side, but there where some yellows, and the wind was blowing white clouds quickly in and out of shoots.
I captured several HDR series of my location, including this one.
Another reason that I started down Bradford Ave., was to hopefully find and easy access point up to the bridge, but today was not going to be the day.
By the time I finished my captures, and packed up my gear, I had less than 15 mins to get home!
“I would be scared to death to go up there and take pics. I have been on the tracks near Commerce drive in Exton though. Good article.” – Lisa (2/29/2012)
“I live right by the bridge and trust me you do not want to go up there. Not too many years ago someone fell off of it onto 322. It is rusted in many spots.” – Elaine (2/29/2012)
Update(s)-
June 7, 2015 – I have been getting a number of hits on this page lately, so I decided to take a look and update things…
– The Link below is not longer active on downingtown.does.co
– I found this Request 1 and Request 2 request on Facebook to “The Daily Local News”
– I have tried to find more details, even doing a general search on the PA State Police site, but found nothing…
– I have found records using a different search criteria, that do suggest a person, but I’m not going to publish that…
– I have also found videos on YouTube of folks walking around the bridge train tracks >> it is illegal to do!
