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Feb 10
The MDP photoquarters was one of the many (some reports have said upwards of 190k) places that lost power over the weekend. In the middle of the powerless day and a half, as the snow just stopped falling and the sun was just setting, lower temperatures began to move in, bringing with them clear skies and this photo opportunity.
An explaination of today’s title:
For those of you who are unfamiliar with Baltimore area weather reporting, during storms of this magnitude, school districts can usually be closed or delayed at the county level. However, there is frequently a caveat for the Hereford zone, a massive chunk of northern Baltimore county serviced by a single high school.
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Feb 10
Forgetting your own birthday is really a terrible thing. Thanks CharlieB for remembering the website’s second anniversary which actually took place yesterday. So, in what is a bit of a tradition, I’m posting that picture which went up on February 4th, 2008 (actually just really late in the night on sunday 2/3) as the first official MDP post, with some minor changes from last year, and the year before.
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Feb 10
This building is the Center for Learning and Technology on the Bowie State campus. I didn’t know much about it when I took the picture, but the new looking building was intriguing so I took it’s picture and resarched it later. There’s nothing terribly interesting that came up about the building but I did find an article with a nice summary of it:
http://schooldesigns.com/Project-Details.aspx?Project_ID=913
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Feb 10
Since it’s snowing today I thought this picture from the seminary might be appropriate. The colors were really off on the film so I just made it balck and white. This is of course the castle building from the seminary, originally it even had a drawbridge.
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Feb 10
When the weather was “warm” the other week, I went out and found many people doing whatever they could outside. The roads were crammed with bikers. Sidewalks and trails had runners. Horse stables had plenty of riders. Of course, horses don’t go away when the weather gets cold like a bike or a pair of running shoes and people come to see their horses every day. However, it seemed like there were a lot of people cramming the stable for a chance to take an extended ride when it was warm. Now, that said, this horse wasn’t in the mood to cooperate. His curiosity had brought him close enough to see what might be in her hand.
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Feb 10
The moon has been doing some pretty unusual stuff lately. I took today’s picture a week ago, above the bridge featured in Friday’s picture. At that time it was still a half moon. Nothing too unusual about that, right? Except that I took the picture at 1 PM, in the middle of the day.
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Jan 10
A year or so I ago, I wrote this post about the bridge carrying the Georgetown Branch Trail over Rock Creek. The other day I thought it would be a cool idea to take a picture from the top of the bridge with the same new wide angle lens I used to take the linden oak picture.
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Jan 10
In Ilchester, MD, a small town on the Patapsco river, you will find many traces of many things of historical interest. I was lured there by the ruins of a few old buildings sitting on the cliffs above the river that I found on some internet maps. However I was too late a they were long since demolished. In fact, going back to the internet, I found that it depended on which map service you used weather you saw the ruins still or not. (actually on bing maps you can see them on certain angles of bird’s eye but not on others)
The town holds more intrigue though. It is located at the end of the main area of Patapsco Valley State Park, in fact the main trail that extends through this park ends at a pedestrian bridge just south of this one. That pedestrian bridge is built on the foundations of the original Patterson Viaduct, which carried the B&O main line, our country’s first 11 miles of railroad, from Mt. Claire to Ellicott City. When that bridge washed out, the tracks were moved north about 100 yards, forcing them to travel through a tunnel and then crossing at the location of today’s picture. I have pictures of that pedestrian bridge but they are trapped on my film camera right now. We’ll get to it eventually.
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Jan 10
Here’s one more shot of the Navy Pier Fire in Solomons. I really liked this picutre from the start with the sunset and the smoke together. You can just make out the shadows of people standing on the fishing pier observing the fire.
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Jan 10
Today’s picture comes to us thanks to Chris C. who was an eyewitness to last winter’s fire at the Navy Pier in Solomons. The wooden pier burned for hours. Above you can see the view from just south of the Governor Thomas Johnson bridge. We have a close up below in which you can see to the right that there’s a ship docked at the pier. That boat,which caught on fire but was not destroyed,was later towed to the open water. 
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1 Jess // Feb 8, 2010 at 8:16 AM
Glad your power is back, MDP! A lot of people here lost power, but we were lucky and didn’t.
I think everyone in Pittsburgh knows the names of the school districts alphabetically before theirs for this reason. I still get excited when I hear “Moon Township-closed… Mount Lebanon-closed…”
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