Cleveland’s Shoreway – Take A Fast Drive

Once or twice a year, we pick a nice day to head to downtown Cleveland to take some pictures. I decided since I wasn’t behind the wheel I could take a video of part of the trip down and back. Here is a video of our drive on part of the east and west Shoreway as it drives around the city. (It’s I-90 and Ohio Route 2 on the east side, and just Ohio Route 2 on the west.) It includes a drive through the city’s infamous “Dead Man’s Curve” (east Shoreway) and over the Main Avenue Bridge (west Shoreway).

The video speed is accelerated, so hold on to your seats.





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Clouds and Crepuscular Rays

The humidity – which we haven’t had much of this summer – returned yesterday, and along with it some scattered thunderstorms. As the clouds bubbled up in the late afternoon, it made for some great cloud pictures. The sun peeked through some darkening clouds, and I caught a few interesting shots of crepuscular rays. Here are a few pictures of the high points.

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Colonial Williamsburg

Governor's Palace (entry from garden)
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We made a trip to Williamsburg, Virginia at the end of June, and spent a lot of time taking in the sights in Colonial Williamsburg. One of my favorite places to see is the Governor’s Palace and its beautiful gardens. Also very enjoyable are the homes of Peyton Randolph and George Wythe. Randolph House is reported to be haunted, and when our tour of the house was over, we asked one of the guides about the ghost in the house. He seemed annoyed at first that we asked the question and then said he didn’t believe in that stuff, but later admitted that one of the bedrooms upstairs was a little creepy. (We didn't see anything.)

Here is a video slide show of some of the high points of Colonial Williamsburg, of which there are many. We happened to be in Wythe House for a gentleman's impromptu performance on an old spinet (included at the end of the video below). We were also lucky that the British “Redcoats” were in town for some interesting re-enactments; they had tents set up for their army and they conducted some drills. We missed the American Revolutionary Army by a week. Of course, every American knows how the Revolutionary Army's meeting with those pesky Redcoats ultimately ended.







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The Allegheny Mountain Tunnel (Video)

On our way back from Williamsburg, Virginia, we passed through the Allegheny Mountain Tunnel on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. I had my camera ready in order to film our passage, and the video is below. I find going though tunnels a little hypnotic and somewhat annoying because of the patterns created by the lights. But, it makes for an interesting video, especially when I sped up the footage by 800% (that clip is at the very end of the video below.)

By the way, over the next few weeks I will be sharing some of the photos and videos taken in Colonial Williamsburg.




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