New England Ice Storm

Happy Holidays to you all!  After a few days without power, I went searching for scenes that showed the beautiful side of the ice storm.  I want to post a couple here, and a few more on my flicker site http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrgrosky.  This one was captured with my Panasonic Lumix TZ5 at an ISO of 100, an [...]

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Union Soldiers–A Re-enactment

  These men gathered, in authentic Civil War Union attire, at the new Gettysburg Memorial Visitor’s Center in Pennsylvania.  They demonstrated military formations and mock-firing of weapons.  Gettysburg was amazing—the brand-new museum (visitor’s center) as well as the battlefield tour, which I did with the aid of an audio CD and a map.  I posted this in honor [...]

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Gettysburg Cemetery–In Honor of Our Veterans

  I like the juxtaposition here of the cannon and the cemetery—cause and effect.  This is the cemetery in which Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address:  “…that these dead shall not have died in vain, and that Government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth.” (Panasonic [...]

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