Finally getting to it!

I finally have found some time to “Get-r-Done” as a friend once said. It’s been a very busy month in the last three and a half weeks. Chris and I left the end of April, to drive down to Maryland and visit our daughter and the grand kids. When we left home the trees hadn’t started to bud yet, no wildflowers, spring had not yet started. I knew it would be well into spring in Maryland and it was. We planned to shoot during the week as the kids would be in school and Laura would be at her new job as digital editor/reporter at the Easton Star Democrat. We planned for five days of places to go and things to photograph and Mother Nature planned on the first two days of rain! She didn’t tell us this though. Sunday was actually very nice and I should have worked then, but instead spent the day with family. We woke up Monday to drizzle which continued through Tuesday. Wednesday we went to St. Michaels and on to Tilghman Island and got a lot of interesting shots including a Scherzer Rolling-lift Bridge, or actually two of them. The first one I ever saw was in Smith Falls, Ontario (see attached photo) and is also on display in an up position much like the one at the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay Marine Museum. The third one, of course, is operating at the Narrows, the crossing to Tilghman Island.
Thursday we took our one grandson, Xander, with us and went to the Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge where we got to watch an Osprey do, not one, but three power dives for fish. Eastern Neck was so interesting Chris and I returned on Friday to do more trails and photograph the wildflowers. We left on Saturday and made our normal stop in Lancaster PA for the night. We stopped in Binghamton NY to see our son and arrived home very late Sunday night or maybe it was early on Monday morning?
Away one week and the world changed. Trees were not only budding but a lot were in early leaf. This meant I shot every day as the weather was great. I needed to catch up to nature. So, even though Laura planned on me getting this first blog out when I arrived home, it had to wait! An explanation here. Laura, my dear step-daughter, set this blog site up for me when we were in Maryland. She spend half a night getting it up the way she wanted and her last words were “do two or three blogs and get it going and I’ll edit it for you”. Thanks Laura for all your work. I have finally got-r-done.