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On the Road: Week of October 26  (5 am)
Albatrossity
Steve from Mendocino
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
Captain C
Jim Appleton

We are going to do something special with On The Road After Dark for a couple of weeks in the run-up to the election and in the days that follow after November 3.

Election Respite Edition

I invited about 15 people to submit photos that wouldn’t necessarily be from a single place or time, but would simply be collections of photos that are especially beautiful, happy,  soothing, or calming.

The folks who were interested rose to the occasion and submitted some amazing collections, which I will be posting each night without introduction.  I am wound up, too, and I want to get to experience them each night, as everyone else does!

On the Road After Dark: Week of October 26 (10pm)
Albatrossity – Election Respite, Staying Chill Edition
lashonharangue – Election Respite, Sights Near and Far Edition
Dagaetch – Election Respite, World Edition
SkyBluePink – Election Respite, The Magic of Trees Edition
cope – Election Respite, Beautiful, Soothing or Calm Edition

If you are reading along and think you might want to be part of this by submitting your own collections, contact me by email or let me know in the comments.

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And now, back to 🐾BillinGlendaleCA.

Holy crap, I am so not brave enough to climb that rock.  Bill, is that really you in the 4th photo?

Maybe we should have a series where everyone (who wants to) sends a photo of themselves when they were young and we put up 5 at a time, along with a list of 5 nyms,  and we try to guess who is who.  ~WaterGirl

🐾BillinGlendaleCA

When I graduated from High School, my father gave me a choice; I could either go to Grad Night at Disneyland or I could go on a backpacking trip to Yosemite with our church youth group. I chose the later. We started out hiking from Glacier Point to our base camp in Little Yosemite Valley on the Merced River above Nevada Falls. The hike to Half Dome was pretty much an all day affair, beginning with a hike on a portion of the John Muir trail.

The first part of the trail is heavily forested until you get close to Sub Dome, a small rock structure northeast of Half Dome. One on Sub Dome you encounter the Half Dome Cables which assist in the final climb to the top of Half Dome. The view at the top of Half Dome is really incredible and there is little to obstruct the view. You get a fine view of Yosemite Valley to the west and the high Sierra to the north, east and south. These shots were originally shot on Kodachrome with an Olympus OM-1, I’ve modified the shots quite a bit to bring out some more color and correct some issues with the original shots(also the slides are 42 years old).

Yosemite National Park, CAJune 19, 1978

Half Dome from Glacier Point. I’ve modified this photo quite a bit, I replaced the sky and warmed it up quite a bit(it was originally overcast).

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The last time I left Maine, I actually cried when I said goodbye to the ocean.  Who would have guessed that someone named WaterGirl would’ve the ocean that much?

JanieM

Portland and Pemaquid this time, for the sake of the lights.

Cape Elizabeth, Maine

Portland Head Light at Fort Williams Park in Cape Elizabeth, just outside Portland. It’s a city-owned park, free to the public, with lots of things to do besides gaze at the lighthouse. It’s beautiful, like everywhere on the coast of Maine, but I only go there when family and friends come to visit and want to see the famous lighthouse. I prefer the wilder, less crowded coastal places further downeast.

Steve Romanoff of the Maine folk group Schooner Fare wrote a song called Portland Town that memorializes the lighthouse. “I see the light across the bay….”

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I have only been to Maine once, but I fell in love.  ~WaterGirl

JanieM

Maine, my adopted home, is devoted to its public lands, including state and local parks; land set aside by land trusts (I volunteer for one that has more than 6000 acres and fifty miles of well-maintained trails in its care) Baxter State Park; Acadia National Park; and – not technically in Maine, but you could throw a stone there from Lubec – Roosevelt Campobello International Park. Several kinds of parks are represented in these pictures and in Part II, which will come later. I’ve traveled in the area a lot, but these particular shots were taken in April of 2014.

West Quoddy Head Light, Lubec, Maine

In Quoddy Head State Park, where there’s a beautiful cliff trail (I walked it before I had a digital camera to carry with me all the time, so no pics). This is the easternmost point of land in the continental US, and as I just discovered when I looked up the park in Wikipedia, “the closest geographic point in the United States to the African continent.”

Lubec, Eastport, and Bar Harbor had a bit of a squabble preceding the millennium over who would get the first gleam of sunlight on 1/1/2000. For some chuckles, here’s an article about it.

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