June 1st

May

Another trip to see Dad today. We visited Geri too. An opportunity to see some cousins, Carolyn & Tom, and Gary's daughter, Stacy. A difficult time but we enjoyed some laughs & reminisced about growing up on a farm. Carolyn thought we had the best mulberries. I've always appreciated that our families can laugh & remember the good while enduring the bad. We get through it together. And I paused a moment to notice that the trees are budding. So glad spring is here.

April

I drove out on Friday & visited Dad. We then visited his sister, Geri. She was glad to see us. I was worried about wearing her out & didn't want to stay long but when we got ready to leave she wished we could've stayed longer. We were both glad to see her. The past month has been very difficult for her & her family; we are hopeful that she is healing this time. We've had rain & snow this past week. The grass in town is greening up. The fields & ditches along highway 6 are showing signs of spring also. Finally!

Vermont

Don made a trip to Vermont last week. He was walking along these tracks & says he thought about me. Knew what I would do if I were there . . . take a photo! My hubby thinks of me now when he sees railroad tracks. How sweet is that!

March

road 24

I know I can be predictable. Boring. You've seen these tracks before. But my goal is to stop by monthly to take a few shots. And it is February already. Another visit to see Dad. We enjoyed a good lunch at the Kensington & got caught up.

On further review I realize I am about seven miles off from the previous photos.

new view

When driving back from Hastings on Saturday I decided to find a new spot to photograph the railroad tracks that run parallel to highway 6. I chose this location because of the foliage flanking the tracks as I looked west. But I made sure to turn around and photograph the eastern view also.

fall on the tracks

I couldn't resist stopping by the tracks on my way to Hastings yesterday. I just grabbed my point & shoot camera for the trip and if I make sure the horizon looks straight the photos come out pretty good.

evening on the tracks

I hadn't stopped by the tracks for awhile.  But last night when I was returning home, I took a moment to take in the view. The sun was almost setting. I'd spent most of the day inside a car or building so I enjoyed the evening air. We finally had a break from the heat with high temps in the low 80's.  Just miles down the highway I met a train headed west so my timing was perfect for a few shots. And I've finally added August to my collection!

February 23, 2012

Because this blog is somewhat of a journal for myself, I am including these photos that are over a month old. I am adding them to my "tracks" collection in the sidebar since the month of February hadn't been added yet. I enjoy looking at the change of seasons in these landscape photos.





(I looked back a few years & found previous photos of the tracks.)

tracks

When I was out to visit Dad earlier this month to photograph his tools (more on that later), I stopped, again, at the tracks. This time I looked the other direction & photographed that view. It was worthy of a photo too.

fall

I was headed west on Highway 6 Saturday morning on a trip to see Dad & take some pictures. I needed to pull over to address some text messages & my timing was such that I revisited the trees along the railroad tracks again. The fall landscape is spectacular right now.





Since traffic was light I also stopped on this viaduct over the tracks on Highway 14 to get a higher vantage point.

October

a July morning

April

February '08

January '09

I took these photos in January '09. Two different weekends. Two different cameras. The Saturday following the final photographs I was again on highway 6. This time on the road, somewhere between Friend & Exeter, I got the call from Jim that Mom had passed. She had been in so much pain that I wasn't disappointed that she didn't wait for me to arrive.