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And for anyone wondering why I am 'ageing' all my bench posts; no clue, I will plead temporary insanity, but its more likely the lasting impact of Postgate Films on my psyche, and the most important, the most beautiful, the most magical, saggy old cloth cat in the whole wide world.

Opening still from the Postgate Films and BBC children's TV show ... Bagpuss

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So back from wanderings, and many random snaps to digest. Today's destination was ... well for now solely a #BenchOfTheDay (with thanks to @chriswielga.bsky.social) ... but Witch, what no water? Relax, Muddy Creek is right behind the bushes beyond the bench! #Photography #ECK #ClassicMono

Bench in a woodland clearing along the northern branch of Muddy Creek in southern York County, PA; as seen from a motorized maintenance railcar on the Ma & Pa Railroad ... Maryland and Pennsylvania ... which runs along the valley from its historic store and mill at Muddy Creek Forks.

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Its Sunday, and I'm about to head out and snap given the wonderful weather, but time for a little #Stunday first. If you follow, you'll know I have been hitting Pinchot Lake this week now that leg and bridges are in a better state) so this image as Fall hits, will be no shock. #Photography #ECK

Looking out across the western Beaver Creek section of Pinchot Lake in northern York County, PA. Gently graduated blue sky above tree line on the far side of the lake, starting to take on fall colors, reflected in the lake still spotted with lily patches with few bullrush/cattail heads in the immediate foreground.

Used to be a favorite lunchtime haunt, but the last year a bridge to get there has been out of action, turning a 15 minute into a 40 minute one, and out of scope for lunch excursions; in the last few weeks that has changed with the bridge's reopening

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Today's #BenchOfTheDay is within the park I source many bird shots in the spring and early summer. Kiwanis Lake is a small suburban man-made beast, a step up from a concrete lined duck pond; but those conifers behind the bench, are beloved by roosting great egrets. #Photography #ECK #ClassicMono

A bench on the edge of Kiwanis Lake, behind which is a dense copse of conifers; while they may look straggly and nothing special at lower levels, in the spring they are the home to many roosting egrets ad herons. In the foreground, rippling lake waters reflect the narrow bright tree trunks. Rendered in black and sepiatoned with vintage white vignette

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Not sure how I feel about the increasingly inflatable Halloween ... appears any and everything is blow up now. Although I guess one form of plastic pumpkin is no different than another. Does appear like retailers are doing a wonderful job of filling local lawns #Photography #31DaysOfHalloween #ECK

Inflatable ghost and a stack of inflatable pumpkins, three high atop a old wooden bench with wooden boxes and multicolored heritage corn cobs

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🏫Busy Saturday of adulting ... completely knocked my typical life as Peter Pan on its head; salutations to marchers for 'mundus sine caesaribus'🧚 Flying helicopters can be fun? When you can see out! Local military auction house gate guardian #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOForOpaque #ECK

Bell OH-58 Kiowa, military Jetranger, on a stand outside the Top Gun auction house on Rt 74 with blacked out opaque (and I think just black plastic) windscreen and side windows

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York, Pennsylvania is not a big city in the grand scheme of things, population of under 50,000, which makes the amount of murals and street art here a little surprising ... and wonderful ✨ A few of my favorite York #Walls; see alt info for artist details. #Photography #BlueSkyArtShow #ECK

Mural called "Hope" in the Royal Square mural park by Annelise Vuono; depicting a figure submerged in dark water holding a faint white sphere, symbolizing a small light or sense of rebirth after struggling through a difficult experience; black on deep turquoise green

Mural entitled "Perennial Bloom" by Robert Homan in the Royal Square mural park. Flower inspired by traditional Polish folk art forms like Wycinanki (paper cutting) and Pysanky (egg decoration), based on the artist's Polish heritage

Untitled, mural by SR81 aka Ralphie Sequinot of a couple on a train platform kissing, blacks and yellow tones on a red base. Found in the Royal Square mural district in York, PA

Painted by the artist duo TRATOS, "Sweet Encounter" is a large-scale, colorful mural behind the fire station on the corner of Duke and King St in York, PA. Two playful American black bears emerging from lush, saturated flora while reaching for honey made by local bees—though a closer look reveals that one bear has spotted the other, hinting at a connection that goes beyond just the sweet treat.

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Welcome to the weekend, and Ian's @atlanticbirding.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Dawn While I have a bunch that are taken early ... few 'look like' they were, so, digging deep and back to last summer for this glance at Susquehanna fisher folk, boats and ducks at sunrise. #Birds #Photography

View out across the Susquehanna River at Long Level one sunrise in June last year; with the sun glinting on the water and baking the world in an orange glow. In the distance, Shad and Rookery Islands, with a fisherman in their boat, and in the foreground a number of ducks swim left to right

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Forget the Kool Aid man, at this time of year around here, 'ware Pumpkin Head ... no not that one, this one! More abuse of my local farm shop #Photography #31DaysOfHalloween #ECK

Large wooden painted pumpkin head, with little stubby arms, standing behind a number of semi-squashed (sp?) pumpkins at Whitcombs farm shop in York, PA beneath a graduated blue sky

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What's the right word? Fallscape? Lakescape? Panoscape? Anyways, a little pano of the eastern shore of Lake Pinchot, late in the day, emphasizing the changing colors as Fall starts to take hold around here. First frost due this weekend, so likely to accelerate ❄️ #Scape #Photography #ECK #Panorama

Panoramic look along the eastern shore of Lake Pinchot as seen from the Quaker Race day use area. Wide variety of green hued trees on the far shore, as well as ambers and the occasional red as fall takes hold. Rippled lake waters in the foreground in blue, with a single marker buoy mid image, beneath a slightly blue hinted white sky

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Lake Pinchot has definitely been a focus this week, 6 miles up the road, great for a lunchtime. So not surprising, subject of yet another of my vintage #BenchOfTheDay shots, this time on the east shore looking south west towards the approaching front #Photography #ECK #StateParks #ClassicMono

Bench on the east shore of Lake Pinchot in the Conewago day use area looking south west toward the camping areas, beneath a drama forming sky; rendered in sepiatone black and white

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@robcrank68.bsky.social has chosen #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Paridae during challenging times; our thoughts are with you Rob 🫶 Here's a little chickadee in the short grass alongside Lake Redmond in York County, PA back in the spring 🦉🐦📷 #Birds #ECK #Nature #Photography

Chickadee in the short grass near the Lake Redmond boardwalk ; carolina maybe, or a black cap ... so hard to tell

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Felicitations to those fired up with Friday feelings 👋 ✨Posted a shot from Dreamwrights the other day; here's a more expansive look at one of the once warehouse walls, now a continuing art project ✨ #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOForOpaque #ColorADay #BWFri #ClassicMono #ECK

One of the walls at the back of the Dreamwrights theater in York, PA; once a warehouse, these days the windows are bricked up and the walls a canvas for local artist and murals; rendered in black and white

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This void, this absence of light, an abyss ... mayhaps a past home of Friedrich Nietzsche? No, a local antique store that knows how to stand out from every other building in the town ... not sure I would want their cooling bills in the summer! #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOForOpaque #ECK

Two story building serving as an antique store in New Salem, York County, PA with all its exterior walls painted matte black, standing out from its surroundings in a most striking fashion

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I haven't been doing much on the bloom front of late, alas I missed the summer months. But time to correct that, at least a little, in the laziest way possible. One of those times when you just relax and lay back in a sea of 'mums! #Photography #ColorADay #YellowThu #BloomScrolling

Image full of yellow chrysanthemum blooms, close but not really macro; but very very yellow

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Want a jack-o-lantern that you don't need to carve every #Halloween ? Kind of liked this toothy storm lantern; the crackle paint is a nice touch! #Photography #31DaysOfHalloween #ECK

Toothy metal jack-o-lantern storm lantern with beige on wood style crackle paint found at Whitcombs, my local farm store

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Alan's #BirdOfTheDay theme today, via Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social, is #JKLM; bird species starting with these letters. Here are a pair of mallards, having a sunset swim on Pinchot Lake day before yesterday; enjoying, as was I, the last light of the day 🦉🐦📷 #Birds #ECK #Photography

Pair of mallards, female leading, male following, swimming from right to left across the surface of Pinchot Lake in York County, PA two days back in the warm low light at the end of the day

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Thursday is upon us, trash day, and for once, I remembered to put the bins out the night before! A peek back at yesterday with this vintage #BenchOfTheDay. Gifford Pinchot State Park always popular with kayakers and other watercraft looking west. #HumansOfBlueSky #ECK #Photography #ClassicMono

Bench looking west along Pinchot Lake from the park's boating ramp #2, two kayakers are paused in the mid-ground, paddles idle across their craft chilling and enjoying the day. Trees around the 340 acre lake of varying hues as fall begins to bite. Rendered in black and white, sepia toned and with white vignetting added to enhance the 'aged' look

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#Halloween, that time when the barrier between worlds thins, and scary things abound ... and clowns. Lets not talk clowns. Anyways, scary ... not sure this counts, its almost ... cute. Cabbage patch dolls, now they're scary #Photography #31DaysOfHalloween #ECK

Plush orange hanging pumpkin/ jack-o'-lantern doll, in shimmering green dress and shoes, with lace trim, holding a bat and dangling from the ceiling at Whitcombs farm store.

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Once warehouse windows now bricked up and serving an altogether better purpose; on the outside, mural space for local kids and artists, inside part of Dreamwrights, a local arts education and community theater here in York, PA #WindowsOnWednesday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOForOpaque #ECK #Photography

Windows and wall section of the former warehouse repurposed to be Dreamwrights, a local community arts education center and theater. The top and bottom floor windows bricked up with local youth art slowly covering the wall and filling the once windows; old drainpipes on the right, painted white and covered in paint hand prints

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Time for another #BenchOfTheDay, a vintage image dating all the way back to ... oh yes, yesterday. Wonderful late afternoon to watch the sunset around Gifford Pinchot State Park here in York County, PA. #Photography #ECK #StateParks #ClassicMono

Bench on the little isolated fishing peninsula alongside boat launch 2 in Gifford Pinchot State Park, looking out across the lake to Boulder Point. Framed on the left by a conifer. Rendered in sepia toned black and white

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Further fall foliage, that's also neither transparent or translucent, its impossible for light to pass through it, that would make it ... opaque ... right? #Photography #ColorADay #RedWed #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOForOpaque #ECK

Tree trunk occupies the right two thirds of the frame, rich with lichen, and some climbing flora whose leaves and narrower stems are red with the change to autumn. Blurred other woodland elements on left in reds and yellows, lacking definition

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Today @atlanticbirding.bsky.social is covering for @helenbennett.bsky.social and chasing #ShoreBirds for today's #BirdOfTheDay This gull caught log hopping on the Susquehanna's southern section as sunset neared should work 🦉🐦📷 Jealous of the surety of its stance 🤩 #Birds #Nature #Photography #ECK

Gull perching on a log on the Susquehanna, gazing down into the water. Low light in the sky catching the gull's underside.

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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Mouth pain is one of those things so hard to sleep through, so while I wait for the sandman to grab me again, welcome to Wednesday! Did my Fall visit to Whitcombs, my local farm shop, to see what they were offering for #Halloween... #Photography #31DaysOfHalloween #ECK

Collection of skulls and pumpkins for decorating yards at Halloween; each no more than a couple of inches in size, on long thin metal spikes.

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Happy Tuesday folks; @atlanticbirding.bsky.social would love to see birds #LookingDown for today’s #BirdOfTheDay. Just so happens I have a snap of this tiny tufted titmouse looking for pickings in the grass before the big bullying cardinal swoops in and grabs everything. #Birds #Photography #ECK

Tufted titmouse in short grass in William Kain park in York County, PA back in the Spring. Narrow depth of field picking out the titmouse vs an encroaching larger male cardinal to the right and slightly out of focus. Background of blurred grass

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Standing on the summit at Samuel Lewis State Park to welcome the sublime sunrise; streaking across the landscape in an instant, unlike the dawn in Discworld, syrup like, flowing across the landscape #BlueSkyMonday #MinimalMonday #Photography #ECK

The sun peeks across the Lancaster County landscape, its glint barely visible on the river as I watched from the top of Mount Pisgah in the heart of Samuel Lewis State Park. Bottom third of the image in darkness bar the merest sliver just below the sun as the light hits the river. Band of bright amber and orange and scattered high cloud, rising up into blue, etched with the vapor trails of early morning transits and arrivals into the east coast

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Late start on here, work things needed me, but welcome to Monday! Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social is chasing #Brown and #Blue things for today's #BirdOfTheDay. I suspect this sparrow just doing sparrow things fits the former. #Birds #ECK #Photography #Nature

Sparrow atop a concrete wall at Kiwanis Park in York, PA

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A few more steam traction engine snaps from Rough and Tumble in the hope that the sandman catches up with me and drags me off to the land of nod. #Photography #ECK #Steam

Steam traction engine with in black with a full length canopy, red water tank, wheels and tender, and green accents.

Steam traction engine in black with a boiler set higher than normal, and red spoked wheels, piston gear and flywheel below, a short stubby smokestack and a cab canopy in green.

Front on view of a steam traction engine with prominent headlamp above the boiler

Steam traction engine with half canopy, in black with red spoked wheels using its belt to turn a threshing dummy

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There are many sheds full of stationary engines, from small utility ones to massive maritime and pumping engines, gas and steam. Unlike some museum collections where they sit, brass shining and in glass cabinets; these are all kept operating, resulting in a wonderful form of ASMR #Photography #ECK

Number of stationary engines operating, flywheels spinning, belts attached, steam and sounds a plenty

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A few of the traction engines active during the weekend's "Time of Harvest" event #Photography #ECK #Steam

Steam road roller, repurposed to Rough and Tumble, with a sign mentioning "Road under construction, travel at your own risk" in front of it

Steam traction engine, disengaging its belt from a sawmill, dark brown/grey body with water and oil marks, with red spoked wheels and pipework

Line of steam traction engines of varying types and makes in a line, all steamed up, closest on the right, furthest on the left

Steam traction engine black with vivid red spokes and flywheel and piston, and green accents

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So I've been mentioning Rough and Tumble. What is it? Its both a who and a where. The Rough and Tumble Engineers Historical Association, and their home deep in Amish country. Amazing place, full of historic engines, traction and stationary. #Photography #Steam #Pennsylvania roughandtumble.org

One of many belt driven lathes and tools in the workshop

Traction engines under steam lined up in the background while a train formed of oil drums with holes cut out, and seats and wheels added, for children, snakes through the foreground

The steam driven Shay railroad that runs around the Rough and Tumble site; black steam locomotive with a large light on its smokestack and a large 4 on the boiler

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Rob's forwarded the #BirdOfTheDay theme selected by Alan @alan678.bsky.social of #Ducks&GeeseInFlight which is apt as yesterday morning there were ducks a plenty escaping as the sunrise was punctuated by the sound of shotguns on the first day of duck season 📷🐦🦉 #Birds #ECK #Photography #Nature

Couple of ducks taking flight in the early morning light on the Susquehanna amidst the boats all setting sale on the opening day of duck season; surreal juxtaposition for the next week or so

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Watching F1 and processing images from yesterday's Rough and Tumble on what is a soggy day thanks to the remnants of Isaias which will be drifting through for the next 24 hours. In the meantime, here's a vintage #Stunday #BenchOfTheDay dating back to ... yesterday morning 🤪😜 #Photography #ECK

Lonely bench looking out on the Lake Charles section of the Susquehanna River at Long Level and across to Turkey Hill and its wind turbines on the Lancaster County side, sun rising on the right

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Misty mornings in Pennsylvania's woodlands are wonderful. Alas the woods near me rarely catch the mist, if you want to see images that truly show those PA's misty woodlands to perfection, checkout the work of @afewfromtheforest.bsky.social #Photography #BlueSkyArtShow #Weather #ECK

Mist gathering amongst the trees atop Martic's hilltops

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There are those days though, when the weather just makes Victorian picture postcards. Susquehanna River in mid-winter putting me in mind of the Dickensian tales of the frozen Thames and its ice fairs. #BlueSkyArtShow #Photography #ECK #Weather

View across the frozen Susquehanna River at Columbia, Lancaster County, with the Veteran's Memorial Bridge on the right

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Today's adventures have kept me from posting for the #BlueskyArtShow #weather. So here's a few as I moan about Pennsylvania's. Spring and Fall are great, but alas for the other 10 months .... not so much! Hot and humid summers, bitter winters; ah the joys of more temperate days. #Photography #ECK

One of those winter days as you open the garage and prepare to dig out the 18 inches of snow around the house.

Storm clouds gather in the humid late afternoon over the UCC church in New Salem, PA.

Summer evening with the sky on fire from the setting sun and the massive clouds building up from the rising moisture.

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Witchspace @witchspace.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Long, fun Saturday. Early start to catch the sun as it set the sky on fire, definitely shepherds' warning. Morning coffee chilling at Long Level and then .... - 10 year olds driving bulldozers? - Dogs in straw hats standing on cats? All part of a place called Rough and Tumble #Photography #ECK

Sun about to rise over the Susquehanna Valley, setting the sky ablaze in deep oranges and salmons from the cloud banks, with random vapor trails above

10 year old girl at the controls of large yellow vintage bulldozer having the time of her life

Dachshund wearing a straw hat, standing atop the seat of a Caterpillar bullsozer.

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Looking south across York County and the Lake Charles section of the Susquehanna River to the Safe Harbor dam while the morning mists snuggle into the headlands and hillsides. Hard to see at this resolution, but above the dam, the birds wheel in the sky #Scape #ColorADay #BWFri #ClassicMono #ECK

Black and white view of the southern section of Lake Charles on the Susquehanna, the headlands of Lancaster County reaching into it, and the morning mist clinging to the valley. In the mist the top of the dam that marks the southern boundary of the lake section, and the hills of York County rising up behind as the river heads to Indian Rocks

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The Friday feeling in full effect here, looking forward to the weekend. Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is in the hands of @atlanticbirding.bsky.social, and for their #Waders selection, here's a Great Blue Heron balletically paddling at Lake Marburg's Black Rock Flats. #Birds #ECK #FlyDay

Great Blue Heron wading on the shore of Lake Marburg's Black Rock Flats; standing out from the largely featureless sandy shoreline and green hued waters.

I don't get down there enough, the roads are a pain, but Lake Marburg is the centerpiece of Codorus State Park on the southern edge of York County, PA

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Happy Friday and good luck to the teams and drivers taking part in the F1 Singapore Grand Prix beneath the iconic Marina Bay resort. Tough weekend, limited practice, night race, great spectacle. Stunning image from Mike Enerio on Unsplash #Scape #Singapore #F1 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekNForNeon

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Amazing night view across the water to the iconic buildings of Marina Bay, Singapore by Mike Enerio on Unsplash via Pixidia. Foreground blurred rippling water shimmering with the reflections of buildings, with the high rise lit buildings across the lower third and a dramatic blue hour sky behind.

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Last of the local 'neon' neon; including one hinting at one culture shift that it took me a while to adjust to. That east coast agrarian early rising ... which means an evening out winds down by 9pm where in the UK, we would just be getting started #Photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekNForNeon #ECK

Very colorful signage for Dave's Hot Chicken; wonderful blazing white letters backlit in red in a fun font, and plenty of smaller neon signs; very eye catching in reds and yellows

A little chiller vibe in this gas station window, neon signs proclaiming "feel free" and "smoke shop" in neon, the latter having red and yellow letters, red rimmed sunglasses, a green leafy spiky neon afro and a plume of white/cyan neon smoke, love it.

Red LED sign for a 'deli' and a purple rimmed with green lettered neon 'open' - one thing I did notice drifting around collecting these ... the number of 'open' signs turned on, for stores that weren't ;)

Very eye catching nail parlor signage 'sky' in neon blue capitals, above 'nails' in neon red capitals, with an unlit script neon 'open' below

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