"Well maybe not a nut...but how 'bout a pumpkin? Maybe I can use it to decorate the nest for Thanksgiving...but how am I gonna get this thing up the tree? Guess I'll just eat it!"
This chubby little guy and his buddies have "carved" most of our pumpkins used for Fall decorations on our front porch this season....in addition to raiding the cat's food bowl and chewing through the plastic trash can top and bottom in search of food due to an acorn shortage. Imagine that....a nut shortage!!! One needs look no further than our highways for plenty of non-driving, left lane poking, no turn signal giving NUTS!!! But that's another blog or two or three....
Guess my little furry buddy was preparing for the cold weather brought in by winter storm Boreas overnight. Temperatures hovered around 33 degrees most of the early morning allowing ice to form on some surfaces like the bird feeder.
Later guys.....
Rick
Friend and fellow photographer Skip Hansberry called yesterday and the conversation went something like this......"Are you in Appomattox?" "Yes...." "Well get trackside....23G is on its way to you with the Interstate Heritage unit as the DPU !"
I was actually working.....cleaning out a garage with a truck bed full of junk.....and needing to drop this stuff off at the landfill before it closed. I didn't plan to drive around the remainder of the weekend with this all this crap decorating the truck!
Anyway....got to the landfill......filled up the dumpsters and headed home to get my camera gear. In the mean time, I called my son, Rick-2, who also planned to head out to get a shot.
I made it home, grabbed the gear and headed trackside to the only spot that I knew would catch the last rays of light, if there would be any at all, with wind clouds forming. It was getting considerably colder and the wind was picking up as I pulled in at "Lee" the control point and west end of double track at Appomattox, Virginia.
Rick-2 called and said the train was by him in Lynchburg so no time to waste for me to hike in a take a few test shots with the glint light. Walking into the location, I was trying to determine how I wanted to shoot the "coming to me" shot.....this was going to be the toughest since the "going away" shot with the Interstate DPU unit would be bathed in whatever light was available.
After a couple of test shots 23G was rounding the curve in front of me and the sun ducks behind a cloud! Well.....press the shutter and hope for the best!
The sun came back out for the Interstate DPU!!! What a way to end the day!!!
Later.....
Rick
