“Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.” — Ambrose Bierce

Thank you for all the new views and likes from last week, it helps keep me inspired.

Enjoy this week’s rambling mind of a mechanical engineer and photographer.

Sunday, 06/20/2021: Posted photo — Mass of Thanksgiving.

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Today was the Mass of Thanksgiving for Fr. Matt Duclos. What a great turn out for the mass. The reception following was full of family and friends. You could see how proud my wife’s cousin and her husband were of their newly ordained son.

Now off to Watkins Glen State Park.

Monday, 06/21/2021: Posted photo — Watkins Glen.

Settings: Canon EOS 60D, ISO 400, f/9, 1/3 s, 18 mm

“Watkins Glen State Park is the most famous of the Finger Lakes State Parks, with a reputation for leaving visitors spellbound. Within two miles, the glen’s stream descends 400 feet past 200-foot cliffs, generating 19 waterfalls along its course. The gorge path winds over and under waterfalls and through the spray of Cavern Cascade. Rim trails overlook the gorge. Campers and daytime visitors can enjoy the Olympic-size pool, modern playground, scheduled summer tours through the gorge, tent and trailer campsites, picnic facilities, and excellent fishing in nearby Seneca Lake or in Catherine Creek, which is renowned for its annual spring run of rainbow trout.” From the park website.

Here are the photos from day one.

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Tuesday, 06/22/2021: Posted photo — Watkins Glen Day Two.

Settings: Canon EOS 60D, ISO 400, f/6.3, 1/2 s, 47 mm.

More photos from Watkins Glen before traveling to Cumberland Falls, Kentucky.

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Wednesday, 06/23/2021: Posted photo — Moonbow.

Settings: Canon EOS 60D, ISO 800, f/5, 44 s, 18 mm.

Cumberland Falls is one of the few places in the world that regularly produces a moonbow. The “moonbow,” also called a white rainbow or lunar rainbow, is formed just like a rainbow—light is refracted in tiny water droplets—and appears for the two or so days, as long as the sky is clear, on either end of the full moon.  The other place in the world that a moonbow occurs regularly is Victoria Falls.

This photo was taken at 11:30 p.m. on a great moonlit night.

Thursday, 06/24/2021: Posted photo — Cumberland Falls.

Settings: Canon EOS 60D, ISO 100, f/4.6, 1/83 s, 18 mm.

Enjoy more photos from the park.

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Friday, 06/25/2021: Post photo — Yahoo Falls.

Settings: Canon EOS 60D, ISO 200, f/7.1, 1/6 s, 55 mm.

Today we left the park to hike to Yahoo Falls and Yahoo Arch. Enjoy the photos.

Here are more photos on our hike out to Yahoo Arch.

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When we came back to the park, we watch nature at work. Here is what happens when a grasshopper gets caught in a spider web. The grasshopper did put up a good fight.

Saturday, 06/26/2021: Post photo — Hanger.

Settings: Samsung SM-G930V (Galaxy S7), ISO 50, f/1.7, 1/238 s, 4 mm

There is a black bear that frequented the campground at Cumberland Falls. The sites have hooks on there posts to have garbage so the bear could not get at it.

Today we travel back home.

Next week’s blog will be the same as this week. They it will be back to normal.

That is all for now. Until next week, be safe.

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