Valfal's photos

The 50 Images-Project : A slightly abstract view of an antique glass bottle half filled with water.

Husband plus propane blowtorch = one hot screw!

The Promenade at Havre de Grace, Maryland. Have a Happy Fence Friday and a great weekend, my ipernity friends! :-))

Bicyclists, walkers and a jogger, oh my! Another image from my Brooklyn Bridge series.

A view of the Chesapeake Bay at dusk. I spotted a man relaxing with his fishing pole. What a beautiful evening it was; the kind you wish would last forever. *Best viewed large on black

Just playing around with mirror processing effect on this shot I took of the Brooklyn Bridge. Happy Fence Friday, everyone! :-)

I haven't made it to Longwood Gardens yet this season and was yearning to see some of their flowers. So I looked at last year's photos and pulled out an unpublished one to post. Hopefully I will have a chance to go before the end of spring. In the meantime, here is a beautiful blue anemone for you to enjoy! :-) Thank you so very much for your kind words and faves, friends and visitors :-))

Another shot from my trip to the Brooklyn Bridge. I was so impressed with the masonry on the towers. This is a magnificent structure! ~Thank you so very much for your comments and faves, dear friends and visitors, they are most appreciated!

Some of my beautiful garden iris. I'm not sure whether this is a Siberian or Japanese variety, but the bloom is smaller in size than a typical bearded iris. The month of May in my region has been rainy almost every day, so these blooms live their short lives dressed in watery beauty.

Flowers produce the seeds of future generations.

Another shot from my Brooklyn Bridge series. One of my favorite day trips ever! HFF, everyone :-)

Today I visited Havre de Grace, Maryland, a beautiful town located on the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. One of the landmarks I saw was Concord Point Lighthouse. The lighthouse was built in 1827 where the Susquehanna River meets the tidal flow of the Chesapeake Bay. It is one of the oldest lighthouses in continuous operation on the East Coast. Fully restored, the Lighthouse and Keeper’s House are open to the public on weekends from April to October. I had a chance to take a peek inside. Its solid granite stairs are narrow, and where they end there is an even narrower iron ladder that you must use to get up into the room where the light itself resides. The photos I posted below give you an idea of how small and narrow the stairwell is inside. It is not a climb for the faint of heart! Here's a link to the official website: concordpointlighthouse.org

HFF from the Concord Point Lighthouse in Havre de Grace, Maryland!

This was the sight that greeted us at a delightful little park in Manhattan after we crossed the Brooklyn Bridge.

My son Tim and I took a trip to New York City to do something we both wanted to do for a long time: take a walk on the Brooklyn Bridge. We began our odyssey in Brooklyn Heights around the parks along the shore of the East River between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. The image above shows a unique view of the Manhattan Bridge. The trip was a photographer's dream! More pictures to follow over the next few weeks...

Today I had the pleasure of taking a day trip to New York City with my son, Tim. Our goal was to take a walk on the Brooklyn Bridge. Before we did that, we decided to explore the beautiful park that was located in Brooklyn Heights along the shore of the East River near the bridge. There were photo opportunities everywhere, the results of which I will be uploading to my stream over the next several weeks. One of the interesting things we found were locks of all shapes and sizes hooked on fences and wires scattered through the park as well as on the bridge itself. I knew nothing about the significance of them, so when I got home I googled "locks on a fence" (not knowing what else to call them). The search came up with the term, "love locks". This is what Wikipedia had to say about them: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_lock I also discovered that this is apparently a world wide phenomenon in all the major cities of the world. So, it seems things that were once used as a means to keep something protected from theft are now used as symbols of love. However, many officials of cities and municipalities are less sentimental, regarding them as another form of graffiti to be removed.