Photography in the Time of Covid 2021

Rich Stolarski

Here we go into 2021. I have decided to end the 2020 blog and begin a new one for the new year. So here it is.







On Saturday January 2 we made our first trip of the new year. We drove to Bombay Hook Wildlife Refuge in Delaware. The refuge is a large saltwater marsh with a number of freshwater ponds and is home to a wide variety of birds. The Leipsic river runs into the marsh on its way to the Atlantic Ocean. We were there in the late afternoon and saw lots of birds at a distance. The drive around the ponds is scenic and fun. I took a number of pictures of the general scenery as shown below. The last picture is the spectacular sunset that occurred as we were leaving Bombay Hook.





Most weeks during the winter we have been playing golf early in the morning on Mondays and Thursdays. The course is relatively empty especially when it is freezing or below at 8:00am. The picture below was taken during a frost delay.





On Sunday January 10 we took a drive to Sugarloaf Mountain a little bit south of Frederick. Sugarloaf mountain is 1283 feet high over the plains of Maryland. It is a privately owned park with winding roads and lots of hiking paths. We stayed mostly in the car as the popular view sites were quite crowded. We got out briefly to take pictures of the 3 major views; to the east, to the west, and overlooking the Potomac River. The view to the west and overlooking the Potomac were quite hazy and looking into the sun so the pictures aren't the greatest but they do indicate the views available.





On Sunday January 17 we drove to Dam #5 on the Potomac River. There were originally 7 dams on the Potomac river that were constructed 1835 to supply water for the C&O canal. Dam #5 is located about 6 miles upriver from Williamsport, Maryland. Dams 4 and 5 are still functional and have been converted into power plants. The pictures below show the flow over the dam and an old building nearby.





On Sunday January 24 we decided to go to the northern end of Baltimore to visit the Cylburn Arboretum. The Arboretum is part of the Baltimore City Parks department and has a wide variety of trees and plants on a 200-acre site just off of Greenspring Avenue. We had a pleasant walk around the grounds and definitely plan to go back in the spring when things are in bloom. The pictures below show a couple of trees, the Cylburn Mansion and a statue.

On the way home from the Cylburn Arboretum we decided to make a few stops in Baltimore to take some pictures of places that I have noted on my drives to and from Johns Hopkins. We drove through Druid park and stopped to take a picture of the Rawlings Conservatory. Across the street we stopped to take a picture of a synagogue. We drove through the Johns Hopkins campus and turned off of 33rd street to go down Guilford Avenue, famous for its colorful rowhouses. Further south on Guilford I took a picture of the mural on a building across from the Baltimore City Public School Administration building. We then drove to Eutaw street where I took pictures of the Francis Scott Key monument and a nearby synagogue. I had driven by these for the best part of the last 10 years.





On January 30 we decided to make our weekly trip on Saturday as the weather forecast for Sunday was significant snow. We decided to go check out the Loch Raven reservoir north of Baltimore. Uncertain of what we might be able to see we were fully prepared to spend most of the trip in the car and possibly not get many pictures. As we approached the Loch Raven Dam there was a small turnoff for a service road that was closed. I got out of the car and walked the quarter mile to the dam and took several pictures including one of a small collection of icicles along the bank of the path. We continued across the reservoir on a bridge and came upon small area with parking. There were quite a few people there so we just walked a bit. I took one picture of the forest and we got back into the car.

It was still early as we left the Loch Raven Reservoir so we decided to take the half hour drive up I-83 and over to the Pretty Boy Reservoir, which is upstream of the Gunpowder Falls that runs through each of them. It turns out that the Pretty Boy Dam is quite spectacular in a fairly deep ravine as indicated in the pictures below.





It did snow for most of the day on Sunday January 31. We had 2-3 inches so I took my camera for a short walk down the street. I took a couple of pictures in the church yard across the street, one of a snow covered bush and one of our house.





We again had some added snow on the ground in Crofton on Wednesday February 3. We took a short walk down to the entrance to the country club. I took a few pictures; one of the club entrance, one of a tree with a snow-covered limb, one of a cluster of crape myrtles near the entrance, and one of a multi-limbed tree on the Crofton Parkway.





On Sunday February 7 we didn't feel like driving very far so we went down to Cape St. Claire on the Magothy River where it runs into the Chesapeake Bay. We found a small park that was for residents and stopped for a few minutes to take a couple of pictures of their piers going out into the Magothy and one of some kayaks stored near the parking lot.





It has been a unique and frustrating time for the last month or so. I found out that I had several artery blockages including one at 100%. I had open heart surgery and now (March 30) has been 5 weeks from my surgery. I finally picked up my camera today when Shirley noted the robins frolicking in our birdbath. I went outside and sat in one of our patio chairs with my 200 mm lens. I got the photos below of the robins on the edge of the birdbath.





On Friday April 9 we decided to drive to the National Arboretum just off New York Avenue. We drove around for a while and found the National Capitol Columns in the Arboretum. The columns were part of the capitol building in Washington DC but had to be removed when they were not substantial enough to support the dome that was added to the capitol. I took the picture below of the columns and their reflection in the small pool next to them. Afterwards we drove around the roads to see what we could find and came across a couple of trees that were very interesting. I'm not sure what kind of tree the first one is but my imagination sees part of it as Marge Simpson with the tall hair and large eye. The second is a tulip tree that is very colorful and has interesting limb structure.





On Sunday April 11 we took a drive on the Eastern Shore to Tuckahoe State Park. This park is in the farmlands of the Eastern Shore. We stopped by the lake where the main activity was fishing. These pictures show the spillway from the lake into Highfield Creek on the other side of the bridge.





Last year we had been to Brighton Dam and found it to be very pleasant and pretty. We also noted that they had a 5-acre azalea garden and marked it down as a place that we had to visit in the spring when the azaleas would be in bloom. We tried a week ago but there were almost no blooms. Today, Friday April 23, we went again and found many glorious blooms. There will probably be even more next week. The pictures below give a sample of the beauty of the azalea garden, in some cases with the Triadelphia Reservoir in the background.





The Arundel Camera Club met for a Saturday afternoon on April 24 at Ft. Smallwood Park. We had about 20 people and enjoyable discussions about photography among many other things. I took a few photos along a pond across the road and a few fisherman along the rocks of the Chesapeake Bay. While we were there we noticed a halo around the sun. These can occur at 22.3 degrees when there are sufficient ice particles at high altitudes to cause scattering. The last picture was taken with my phone of the halo.





Spring flowers are blooming throughout our yard. I went out this afternoon, Monday April 26, and took these photos of some tulips planted in a pot in the front yard. I also include the picture of some African Daisies (multicolor) taken the day before with my cell phone. Finally there are two more pictures; one of orange African Daisies and the other of yellow African Daisies. Finally a last picture with various color African Daisies.





On Tuesday April 27 we took a drive down to the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. We were only able to hike a small fraction of the distance required to see all of the ponds and marshes. Overall it was a little disappointing as most of the lilies and lilypads were not in bloom. The two pictures below show one of the ponds and one of the many turtles that we saw.





On Sunday May 2 we went back to Brighton Dam to catch the azaleas in full bloom. It was extremely crowded and we were lucky to snag a parking place. I took lots of pictures as shown below.





On Monday May 3 I went out into the backyard to take photos of our azaleas that were in full bloom and looking good. Also the rhododendrons are just beginning to bud so I took a picture of one of the buds.





On Thursday May 6 I went out into front yard to get a picture of our large rhododendron bush that was blossoming in our front yard.





On Friday May 7 we decided to go down to Annapolis to go to Mason's on Main Street to have their lobster rolls for lunch. We sat at one of the tables on their sidewalk outside. This was our first meal in over a year eaten at a restaurant, albeit outdoors. After eating we walked up Main Street to Church Circle and then down to State Circle and finally down Francis Street back to Main Street. I took a picture looking up Main Street, another of the Statehouse from Church Circle with the Maryland Inn in the foreground. I took a picture of an interesting photo of the women of the "Just Government League" taken in 1914. Finally I took a picture of the Capitol building looking up from Francis Street.





On Thursday May 13 I took a drive down towards Galesville, Maryland looking for random photographs. I turned off Birdsville Road onto Route 2 and noticed some horse farms that define much of southern Maryland. I found a place to turn off and took these pictures of horses and fenced fields with a lot of yellow buttercups growing. I continued on to Galesville and found the Hartge Yacht Harbor. I drove in and took a couple of pictures of boats. One I have labeled "houseboat" in anticipation of our camera club contest on "interesting perspectives". On Friday May 14 Shirley and I went back to the horse farm to retake some of the pictures using the tripod to prevent some of the camera shake in the previous days pictures. When we got home I went across the street to take a couple of photos of the rhododendrons in front of our house with a long lens at about 70 mm.





On Saturday May 15 the Arundel Camera Club had a field trip to Brookside Gardens. We only saw a small part of the garden as Shirley and I are both limited in the amount of walking that we can do. The pictures below represent some of the sights in the garden. I have been slow to post them as that night Shirley fell and broke her ankle. We will almost certainly not be making any photography trips for a month or so.





It is now June 23 and I have not had my camera out for 5 weeks. Shirley is on the mend having had her ankle operated on nearly 4 weeks ago. She still cannot put any weight on it. My poker group resumed in-person games a week ago and this Monday at Alan's we were treated to a storm that was eminently photographable looking out from his house over the Magothy River. I used my cell phone to get a couple of photos of the spectacular storm.





While downloading the storm pictures from my phone I found a couple of pictures taken over the last two months that I had not posted. Included is the panorama of Ego Alley and the Annapolis Dock area below as well as a photo of the Capitol from Main Street and the Sajak Pavilion at the Anne Arundel Medical Center taken from the window of my cardiac rehab and a sidewalk view in our neighborhood in Crofton. Also included is a view of Baltimore from the Viragh Building at Johns Hopkins Hospital; a view I had photographed many times when I was going in for chemotherapy. Finally there was a photo of the rhododendron in our front yard in full bloom.





It is now Friday July 16, 2021 and Shirley continues to recover. She is now putting some weight on her broken ankle but is not yet walking on her own. About 45 minutes before sunset I decided to get out my camera and drive down Route 450 to where it crosses the South River. I had gone by this place hundreds of times without stopping. So this time I stopped and found another photographer there taking pictures looking up the river (which is not flowing at this point). The idea was to get a sunset above the ample forested foliage with a reflection in the water. Those pictures didn't turn out to be very interesting but I moved over 20 yards or so and got some reeds in the foreground with the sunset and a little bit of a reflection in one of the pictures. The two that I liked the best are shown below.





On Friday July 23 I decided to get some exercise by going out for a walk. I drove down to Annapolis and parked in the garage near St. John's College. I then walked down to Maryland Avenue and up to the Maryland Statehouse where I took bunch of pictures in the setting sun. The picture looking up Maryland Avenue was crisscrossed with many wires that I removed in photoshop. Makes it less authentic but I like the picture better.





On Tuesday July 27 I again went down to Annapolis for a walk with my camera. This time I took my 70-200 mm lens and my 10-18 mm wide angle as well as my tripod. I walked from the Calvert garage to State Circle and then to Church Circle. I took another picture of the statehouse and then of St. Anne's church. I also took one over the fence of the garden in the Governor's House. I went on to Main Street where I spent some time with my tripod and the 70-200 mm lens trying to get a long shot down the street towards the water and sailboats. I had been looking to get this shot for a while using the long lens to get the foreshortened view. I think that it worked pretty well although I would like to have had a few less cars. I took a picture of the Thurgood Marshall Statue in Lawyers Mall with the Maryland Department of Legislative Services Building in the background and afterward drove down to Jonas Green Park to take pictures of the sun setting through heavy haze.





On Wednesday July 28 Shirley went to her first PT for the broken ankle. While she was there I drove over to Woodwardville and took a couple of photos of Patuxent Pond and the Little Patuxent River.





On Saturday July 31 I went back to Annapolis for my exercise walk. I parked again at the Calvert garage and walked to Church circle and then down South Street to take a picture of a mural of Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I then proceeded down Duke of Gloucester street and took a picture of the back of the Maryland Inn and a couple of porches of houses along the street. I took a picture of the Annapolis City Hall and then walked down to the City Dock where I took a picture of Ego Alley, which was crowded with boats on a Saturday night. I walked up to state circle and on the way took a picture of diners at McGarveys and the Middleton Tavern on Dock Street and a photo of a smoke shop on Fleet Street. On State Circle I took a picture of Harry Browne's restaurant.





On Thursday August 5 I drove up to Baltimore to the Fells Point area. I parked at the Fleet and Eden garage and walked to the Katyn Monument. The monument was put up in 2000 by the Baltimore Polish community as a memorial to the more than 20,000 Polish officers and intelligentsia murdered by the Soviet NKVD in 1940. The photos below are some of those I took that evening.





On Sunday August 22 I decided to go down to Annapolis for another walk but later in the evening to try to take some twilight and nighttime photos. My original goal was to photograph St. Anne's in Church Circle when it is lit up at night. I took several versions of this photo, one from closeup with a wide angle lens and another from the gate near West Street with the trees framing the church. I got a final picture of the spire from across the street on a porch platform that gave a view clear of the trees. Before the total darkness I had taken a picture of St. Anne's in the twilight and then ventured around Church Circle to Main Street. I took a photo of the Maryland Inn framed by Duke of Gloucester Street and Main Street. I then took a picture looking down Main Street at twilight. I the went down to the corner of Main Street and Francis Street and found a position on the west side of Main Street where I could take a photograph looking up Francis Street to the Capitol building and simultaneously up Main Street to St. Anne's church. Finally on the way back to the Calvert Street parking garage I stopped at the Fireman's Memorial that I had noticed on my way down. It was lit up at night making a dramatic picture.





Saturday August 28 we decided to take a driving trip towards Frederick, Maryland. This was Shirley's first outing that didn't involve PT or a trip to the store. We first went to Sykesville, a small town to the west of Baltimore. It proved to be a very rich location for photographing old and interesting buildings. The train station had been turned into a restaurant. There was an arts center, an ice creamery, a crepe shop and a gift shop that was decorated with murals on all of the walls and surrounded by rocks, some of which had been painted as small pictures.

From Sykesville we drove the back roads towards Frederick. We stopped outside of Libertytown and photographed a barn and a grain silo. From there we drove into Frederick but decided to not stop. We continued on to Gambrill State Park and up to the North Frederick overlook where I took a picture looking down on the north part of the city that was fairly hazy.





Friday September 3rd we decided to go down to Annapolis for an early lunch of lobster rolls at Masons on Main Street. I did not take my main camera but took a bunch of photos using my phone. This was a sort of scouting trip for going downtown earlier for a sunrise photoshoot. The photos below are not ideal because of the very high sun, but I still like many of them. They include scenes on Main Street as well as views of the Capitoll Dome from Main Street and the yard of the Governor's House. These add to my collection of Annapolis photos.





On Saturday morning, September 4th we went back to Annapolis for the sunrise. We first went down to the city dock where we were greeted with a very colorful sunrise. I took many pictures that were quite similar. Four of them are shown below. We then walked along Ego Alley and I took several pictures of the boats and walkway along the waterway and one looking across to Pussers Restaurant with St. Mary's steeple in the background. We then went up Main Street to have breakfast at Chick & Ruths. While up there I took a number of photos including a couple looking up Francis Street to the Capitol and simultaneously up Main Street to St. Annes.





After visiting Steve and Vanessa, Zach and Max in Virginia on September 11, we stopped on the way back at Point of Rocks to get some new photos of the train station at a different time of day with a different sky. I was setting up to take a picture down the tracks toward the station when someone came over and warned me that an Amtrak train was coming in a couple of minutes. I went off to the side and got one quick picture even though I didn't yet have the settings correct on my camera. I then took pictures of the station from a number of angles before I ran into a group of young teenagers who were train enthusiasts. They told me that a freight train was coming through in about 10 minutes on the tracks on the other side of the station. The one who first told me about this was 12 years old and had his own youtube channel dedicated to trains. So I set up the camera and waited for the train and took a series of pictures as it passed. One of them is displayed below.





On September 7 I went to my office at Johns Hopkins. I am not trying to go there once a week to do a little bit of research that may eventually lead to a published paper. I park at the San Martin garage and then walk back to Olin Hall. On this day I noticed the line of JHU "Hop Vans" lined up at the electric charger stations and took this picture.





On September 13 I played golf at Bay Hills at 7am. The rising sun was obscured by haze as indicated in the photo below looking straight into the rising sun.





On September 14 we went to dinner on Kent Island at the Bridges Restaurant with the McPeters. Dinner was on the large, well-spaced patio with a view of the sunset over the Kent Narrows. The following pictures were taken with my phone as the sun set.





On September 17 I again went to my office at Johns Hopkins. On the way home I drove through Fells Point and up O'Donnell Street to Brewer's Hill. I stopped and took the following pictures of the Natty Boh Tower with my phone. Note the difference in the appearance of color in the building between the sunny side and the shady side of the building.





On Saturday September 18 we ran a few errands and then went to Centennial Lake in Columbia to take a short walk and get a few photographs. At a boat dock there were benches where we could sit and observe the geese and people enjoying the lake on inflatable boats. I walked down to a boat launching ramp where I observed a couple of boys standing out on a rock jetty fishing.





On Sunday September 19 we drove across the Bay Bridge to Matapeake State Park. We went out to the fishing pier for a view of the Bay Bridge. The view was not particularly spectacular but I took a picture of one of the fishing boats heading out with the bridge in the background. The sunset was a bit disappointing with mostly clear skies. As the sun set some clouds appeared in the west and I took one photo of the sun setting across the bay through those clouds. We then went back to the parking lot of the Bridges Restaurant where we had dinner earlier in the week to take the nighttime photo of the Jetty Bar and Restaurant with its bright lights reflecting in the water.





On Saturday October 2 we took a short trip down to Allen Pond Park in Bowie as sunset neared. I took a few pictures of the pond and reflections of the fountain in its middle as well as a couple of pictures of the sunset coloration of the sky over the pond.





On Sunday October 3 we drove to Patuxent River Park on the Prince Georges side of Jug Bay. We had lunch at a picnic table overlooking the bay. I took a couple of pictures looking across the bay and then went down the steps on a path leading to the boat landing where canoes, paddle boats and paddle boards were being lauched into the bay. There was a group with a pair of kids and their dog preparing to go out. They got the dog to reluctantly jump into shallow water after which he shook the water off thoroughly as I took his photo. There was also a pier with several people fishing. As I started to walk out on the pier I noticed a blue heron perched on a log no more than a dozen feet from me. I took many pictures and found that it was non-trivial to get a good one in focus with a reasonably good background. Two examples are shown below.





On Wednesday October 6 Shirley took her car in for service on Route 198. Instead of waiting for it I picked her up and we went to the Patuxent Wildlife Research Refuge and wandered about taking a few pictures of the lakes, swamp, trails and geese. Afterwards we drove to the Montpelier Mansion and wandered about the grounds there where I took a few more pictures.

Patuxent Wildlife Research Refuge

Montpelier Mansion





On Tuesday October 12 I took a drive to the North Track of the Patuxent Wildlife Research Refuge. Near the parking lot was a very short trail to the Little Patuxent River. The trail was only about 50 yards long and led to an opening overlooking the river where I took a picture looking down the river and took another of a fallen tree covered in moss and fungi.





On Sunday October 16 we took a drive to Cunningham Falls going north of I70 through Thurmont. We first went down to Hunting Creek Lake and took a few pictures of the lake and the surrounding forest. We then went up to the falls and took a couple of pictures of the falls that had very little water flowing as we have had a pretty dry summer.





On Friday October 22 we took a drive south on Rout2 to Solomons Island. We first stopped at the fishing pier and boat launch ramp to photograph the bridge over the Patuxent River near its mouth. I took a picture of the bait shop at the boat launch ramp and then took a couple of the bridge from the fishing pier. We then drove onto the island and stopped at the Tiki Bar for an outdoor dinner of shrimp tacos and crab dip. On the way out of town we stopped along the way to take another couple of pictures from the boardwalk and a picture of Our Lady Star of the Sea catholic church. The seagull in the bridge picture was a happy accident as I never saw the bird when I was taking the picture.





Saturday October 30 was the day for an Arundel Camera Club field trip to the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. I went in the afternoon arriving a little before 3 pm. I set out on the path to Goose Pond and then the Cash Lake trail around Cash Lake. It was a good photographic day with an interesting sky and the beginning of some fall color.





On Tuesday November 2 I had to go up to Johns Hopkins to get my blood drawn. It was a rainy day, especially for the drive back. I went down towards the waterfront as we often do. On the way past Patterson Park I noticed the St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church on Eastern Avenue as I was turning right onto S. Montford Avenue. Near the end of the block I found a parking place and walked back to the church with my phone camera. I took a series of pictures of the photogenic church and went up the steps into Patterson Park to take some more. I went home via a very roundabout route and ended up taking the picture below of St. Casimir Polish Catholic Church on O'Donnell Street.





Sunday November 7 we decided to drive to Blackwater Wildlife Refuge. I didn't really expect much in the way of pictures but found a blue heron in the shallow water near the road. I took a large number of photos using my 200mm lens. The heron and his reflection in the water pretty much filled the frame. I have shown 4 of the pictures that I liked the best. As we went farther along wildlife drive we came across a number of cars pulled off the road with several sets of binoculars, a telescope, and a couple of very large lenses taking pictures towards a group of trees. I asked what they were watching and they told me that it was a tropical kingbird that was several thousand miles from its normal habitat in the southwest and throughout Central and South America. I used my meager 200mm lens and took a picture of the trees. I cropped and blew up a small portion of the picture and the kingbird can be seen although it is not very clear. I also took a picture of some white birds that may be cattle egrets.

After Blackwater we drove into Cambridge and got some chicken for dinner and I took a few pictures in the downtown area before heading home.

Blackwater Wildlife Refuge

Cambridge





On Wednesday November 10 I went back for a brief walk in the Patuxent Wildlife Research Reserve but only took a short walk and didn't get many new pictures. Below is one of Goose Pond and one of the exit road, both taken with my phone.





On Friday November 12 I took a short walk from the house through the parking lot of the Prince of Peace Church and over to the Crofton Country Club. It was just before sunset with the sun illuminating many of the trees and making the leave and grasses glow.





On Saturday November 13 the Arundel Cameral Club had a field trip to the Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary on the Patuxent River. I showed up shortly after 9 am and walked the marsh boardwalk. I then walked another mile or so along the various trails and and took a number of pictures of the trails and some of the trees with nice fall color.





On Tuesday November 16 we took a long drive to Lewes, Delaware. We looked in on the Terminal for the ferry to Cape May, New Jersey but we were in between ferry times. The restaurant at the terminal looked very inviting but was closed on Tuesdays. We walked around the terminal and its outside patio taking a few pictures. We then drove back to the corner of route 9 and got hamburgers at the Dairy Queen that we took to a parking lot overlooking the water to eat. We then drove into the old town and took a number of pictures of the small town shops including the ice creamery where we had cones. It was warm enough in the sun to sit and eat them outside. We then drove to Rehobeth Beach, which was pretty dead with almost no one on the street. I took a couple of pictures and we headed home starting on Delaware Route 1, a wide highway crowded with bumper to bumper cars. I guess that everyone was visiting the outlets there and nobody was near the beach.

Lewes

Rehobeth Beach





On Sunday November 28, Shirley and I drove to St. Michaels on the Eastern Shore where we walked around the main street of the city and stopped at Ava's Wine Bar & Pizzaria. We got a pizza that we could sit in the comfortable Adirondac chairs by a portable fire to eat on a cool but nice afternoon. I took a number of pictures of the shops and churches along the road. We then drove to Oxford and looked around briefly. I took a picture of the Robert Morris Inn and some canoes near the harbor.

St. Michaels

Oxford





My brother Bob came to visit from Arizona for the week of December 4 to 11. On Tuesday, December 8 Shirley had dinner with her girl friends so Bob and I went on a little road trip. First we went to Annapolis where we visited the Chesapeake Light Craft factory where they built very nice wooden boats of all sizes. Bob had bought one of their kits with a small boat that he turned into a bassinette for his new great grandson Ozzy. We then went on to the Maritime Museum in the Eastport section of Annapolis.

From there we went on the road across the Bay bridge to St. Michaels. We took a quick drive through the town and decided to turn around to go back towards an apparent woodworking store (Bob's hobby and passion). We went around the block and saw the back of a brewery with a loading dock that looked generally interesting. We went closer and one of the doors said woodworking so Bob opened the door to find a dusty, cluttered shop with two guys who were having their afternoon beer before heading home. We admired a dusty picture of a baseball team and found out the one of the guys father and uncle were on the team in Massachussetts. We noticed the 1903 calendar on the door celebrating the World Series victory of the Red Sox. He said that his dad died before ever seeing the Red Sox win the World Series again.

After St. Michaels we headed out to the end of the peninsula to Tilghman Island where we stopped to take a couple of pictures near the bridge onto the island. We then continued down to the southern end of the island and took a few pictures of the sunset from that location.

We continued home to Crofton from there and stopped to take some nighttime pictures of the Baptist Church with its lights, red and green on the large trees, purple on the building and white on the bushes.

Annapolis

St. Michaels

Tilghman Island

Crofton





On Sunday evening December 19 I went down to the Crofton First Baptist Church a little before the sunset to retake the picture of the lit up church and trees before all of the light had gone from the sky.







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