Whitewater on the Tohickon Creek 2013

Oh where, oh where is spring? 

 

After all, there was a spring dam release 

into the Tohickon Creek this past weekend.



Instead of spring like weather,
it was about 30 degrees with snow flurries.



And these crazy paddlers were in the cold water!



Some even had bare hands.



How they kept a grip on the paddle is beyond me!



Only my toes got wet
and I was sure I had frost bite!



My husband says I am crazy for sitting on the rocks
for 4 hrs. taking photos.



Clearly...he has not yet met crazy.



Compared to these people...
I am perfectly sane.

Photo of me on the rocks by David Dami Photography

Brrrr.... 

My full gallery of photos is here:

2013 Tohickon Creek Whitewater Paddlers

I took over 1200 but only kept 309 shots!  :) 

For the Love of History

Way back when I was in high school...

back when teachers still used chalk and chalkboards 

instead of those new fangled smart boards... 

...way back then, 

I hated history. 

I had a teacher 

who stood next to her desk 

in the same place every day and

leaning ever so slightly against it 

she...

LECTURED. 

That's all she did. 

Day in and day out 

she lectured. 

I was bored stiff.  

I hated her class...

I had that teacher twice in 3 years.  

Jump ahead a few years to college. 

I had a tough old bird professor for history.  

She was brutal. 

Complete with blue book exams 

where you couldn't write fast enough...

But I loved her class. 

She rarely lectured. 

She brought history alive. 

We read historical fiction...

or biographical works from the periods we studied.   

We took field trips. 

After a visit to Winterthur Museum in Delaware,  

I was smitten.  

Thanks to that professor, 

I now love history.  

I devour historical fiction, historical accounts and biographies. 

And I love to visit historical places. 

Just the feel of them makes my heart sing. 

A peek inside:

My Stover Myers Mill Photo Album

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