guard tower road

zanesville train bridge series

I took these over a year ago on a day so cold that I couldn't feel my hands. I've wanted to take pictures of this bridge forever.

farm road

I just returned from Zanesville, the land where complete strangers wave at you when you drive by and where someone said to me "Them's pertineer wore off" and I understood them. As usual, I'm short on time, and even didn't have time to do even the modest improvements I sometimes try to do with Picasa before putting up a photo, but I just couldn't wait. I got permission from the new owners of the nearby Roseville Prison to go in and shoot photos, so I'm really itching to post those, too.

zanesville waterfall

I've been looking back through the pictures I took when I visited my parents back in my home down a year ago or so. I remember liking a lot of the shots, but I haven't put that many up. The day I took this one, and the others from the river that I'll put up in the next week or so, were taken on a very cold, damp, snowy day. By the time I packed it in my fingers almost wouldn't work.

start of maple

There are brick houses like this all over Zanesville and nothing would be more fun than to come back and restore one of them. This is across from Tom's Ice Cream Bowl, right at the start of Maple Avenue. When I was a kid I thought it was the biggest street in the world.

tom's ice cream bowl

This is a shot of a famous landmark in Zanesville, OH, where I grew up. The longer I'm away from home the more I miss things about it (I've always missed family and friends). I'm sure I would feel that way about NYC, too, if we moved away, though Sandy told me tonight a poll mentioned it was one of the four most miserable places to live, and our taxes are among the highest of any US city.

Anyway, I've not been home recently, but have been spending a couple of minutes a night looking through old photos. I'm going to start shooting again soon.