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Hershey: Butterfly House, Hotel Hershey Gardens

July 2019 On my last home leave from Iraq, I was staying with family at my address of record enjoying a little bit of calm and normalcy. ...

Dauphin County: Boyd Big Tree Preserve

September 2017 On a visit home to my "address of record", my sister/cousin EHJ indulged me to go for a walk nearby, "someplace new". I...

York: Barnett Bobb House

November 2020 I remember visiting this house (along with the nearby Gates House and Plough Tavern) in elementary school. That experience...

Milford: Superstorm Sandy

This is right down the street from the Condo we used to own in Hoboken. I used to regret letting it go, now... I guess it really was a...

Hershey Medical Center: a battle waged and won

Jim Mack's Ice Cream, Hallam Township. June 2018 [from FB post: August 23, ,2012] My very good news for the day. Back in May, my Mom...

Philadelphia: 30th Street Station

Pennsylvania Railroad World War II Memorial. November 2021 How odd to say that I have passed through the station over a hundred times...

Philadelphia: Bloody Marys on Rittenhouse Square

Parc, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia. July 2010 Kelle H. BEGGED me to go to Philly for Valentine's weekend one February during the...

Milford: a local mafia

Hotel Fauchere, Milford October 2010 [from FB post: August 16, 2012] Social media, mass media, and a small town all collide. I find I...

Milford: incarceration

Old Pike County Jail, Milford. October 2010 [from FB post: August 15, 2011] Just back from visiting a friend in the Pike County...

Dauphin County: Hollywood Casino

Hollywood Casino, Grantville. February 2022 (not my photo... seriously not) [from FB post: June 24, 2010] I went to Hollywood Casino...

Lackawaxen: The Inn at Lackawaxen

Inn at Lackawaxen. June 2010 [from FB post: June 25, 2010] Just back from the Inn at Lackawaxen. I took my parents there for lunch. The...

Milford: Harry Potter Room

Harry Potter Room, Warner Bros. Studio (not my photo) [from FB post: July 6, 2010] The bedroom was 95F last night and cooled down to 85F...

Lancaster County: "munafik"

Amish draft horses, Lancaster Junction Trail. June 2021 [from FB post: June 19, 2012] Place: Hershey Medical Center, Starbucks Time:...

Milford: addicted to tourism

Craft Show, Milford. October 2010 [from FB post: June 13, 2010] I had a late afternoon walk around town. It was so dead for a lovely...

Milford: old trees

Not my photo, but such a great shot of Milford trees in Fall. November 2014 [from FB post: June 7, 2011] Ohhhh just had a visit from...

Milford: living large in little Milford

Broad Street, Milford. October 2009 [from FB post: May 29, 2010] Just back from a lovely dinner with friends at Hotel Fauchere. It's...

East Prospect: Canadochly Elementary School

April 1973 That same tree. April 2022 (photo credit BFC) Echoes K Miss Witmer was my kindergarten teacher. She had long blond hair...

Eastern York County: flights of fancy

Over York County. May 2022 (photo credit SW) Hats off to old high school pals SW and BC for posting to FB a glorious set of photos of...

Milford: mowing the lawn

Back garden, our house, Milford 2003 [from FB post: May 5, 2010] I mow my lawn with a push mower. You would think I was burning a flag...

Wrightsville: Battlefield

York Daily Record, September 15, 2012 (photo from 1930s) Wrightsville. December 2020 (The first photo) shows Wrightsville only 65 years...

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Observations of Life

"A stone with no moss" has been my motto.  My experiences and commentary from travels both near and far.  No hate, unfiltered.

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