I Don't Recommend Getting in the Water...

But I do highly recommend taking a trip to Great Falls national park. Part of the C&O Canal, the falls are formed because the Potomac River reaches the fall line at this point. The river drops in elevation from 140ft to 10ft over only a 15mile stretch of river (also known at the Potomac Gorge).

At Great Falls specifically, the river drops 60ft is just over half a mile.

The result of this dramatic change in elevation can be seen in the pictures below:
(note: not all were snapped by me).

Lets Move to the Country

These were taken while wandering around during the famous CONS Ciderfest. An annual event, which I had the pleasure of attending. 

Did anyone else have such thoughts as a child?

I came across a passage in On the Road that stuck a strong a chord with a memory from my childhood.

"I told Dean that when I was a kid and rode in cars I used to imagine I held a big scythe in my hand and cut down all the trees and posts and even sliced every hill that zoomed past the window. "Yes! Yes!" yelled Dean. "I used to do it too only different scythe--tell you why. Driving across the West with the long stretches my scythe had to be immeasurably longer and it had to curve over distant mountains, slicing off their tops, and reach another level to get at further mountains and at the same time clip off every post along the road, regular throbbing poles. ..."

Now...you might ask, "Why did that dredge up a childhood memory?"

10-2-10 Mix

If you like the mix, you can download it using the following link:
10-2-10 Mix.mp3
(right click and "save as")

Namesake Pictures

The name of the blog comes from an old folk song I first became aware of via Bill Callahan. However, as is evidenced by the number photos I have taken in such places, I realized that I myself quite enjoy being amongst the pines. There is something about wading around in the sea of peaceful trunks that is awe inspiring.

On the Road

I should like to think the sentiments expressed below are indeed true, but I lack the ability to draw the comparison to the great american West as was so eloquently done by Jack. Either way, I really like this quote:

"I thought the wilderness of America was in the West till the Ghost of the Susquehanna showed me different. No, there is a wilderness in the East; it's the same wilderness Ben Franklin plodded in the oxcart days when he was postmaster, the same as it was when George Washington was a wildbuck Indian-fighter, when Daniel Boone told stories by Pennsylvania lamps and promised to find the Gap, when Bradford build his road and men whooped her up in log cabins. There were no great Arizona spaces for the little man, just the bushy wilderness of eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, the backroads, the black-tar roads that curve among the mournful rivers like Susquehanna, Monongahela, old Potomac and Monocacy."

Swimming in the Sky

This playlist has a bit of a different flavor from the one I previously posted. If you have not  heard any of these tracks, I suggest looking around for them as they are well worth a listen.

Title	Artist	Album
Swimming Field	Memory Tapes	Seek Magic
Plastic People	Four Tet	There Is Love In You
Foreground	Grizzly Bear	Veckatimest
3rd Element	Clutchy Hopkins	Walking Backwards
Wet Cement	Morning Benders	Big Echo
Latch	Scuba	Triangulation
Skinny Love	Bon Iver	For Emma, Forever Ago
Basic Space	The xx	xx
Dragonfly Across An Ancient Sky	Helios	Eingya
All We Ask	Grizzly Bear	Veckatimest
Nightwalker	Trentemøller	The Last Resort
Marble house	The Knife	Silent shout
Vcr	The xx	xx
Angel Echoes	Four Tet	There Is Love In You
Breathe	Telepopmusik	Genetic World