Maryland Daily Photo

Off the highway and 3 miles up a hill, or 3 miles along a road that goes up a hill, you will find Dan’s rock.  The rock, which is actually a collection of rocks that creep out of the mountain like a jetty into the ocean, affords its visitor one of the greatest views imaginable.   […]

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To continue yesterday’s story. The ending destination was Cumberland.   I think that Cumberland is a very nice town and is certainly very beautiful.   A little trivia, the top employers include the health system, the county government, CSX, and Allegany (proper spelling) college. 
The skyline is riddled with churches, making it quite a site.   Here however, you […]

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While most of the population went east for Memorial Day, MDP went west.  If you are keeping track, the western-most post we’ve had so far was in Hancock.  Moving past hancock, the first thing you find on I-68 is Sideling Hill, and the Sideling hill cut.  This is the deepest road cut in Maryland.  There […]

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In contrast to the 8 hours of beautiful sunshine that there were on Saturday, the time spent photographing the reservoir was the one hour of cloudines in the whole day.   Theres a building in the background about dead center.  Does anyone know what that is? 
 Note The zoomed in buildings are now right here:
 

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One of my first memories of Baltimore County involves travelling over this bridge and its sister bridge on Warren Rd.  You might be able to see from this picture that the bridge deck is composed entirely of diamond pattern steel griding, which while enabling road dirt, water, and whatever else to flow down without the […]

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Perched in a nest of mystery, looking out over the valley and keeping track of what’s happening at the “Town Center” in Hunt Valley, is the Masonic home.   On the former Bonnie Blink farm and estate grounds.  I know relatively litttle about this place, other than that it was built in the 30’s and that […]

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This is Darnall’s chance, one of the oldest homes in Upper Marlboro.  
 
It was built in 1742 by James Waldrop on lands formerly held by the Darnall family, from which the property takes its name.   Mr. Waldrop married a young woman named Lettice Lee, who lived on the land until 1776, when she passed away.  […]

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The Pride of Baltimore was back in town the other day and, becasue I wasn’t happy with the quality of pictures I had taken last time, I went back to see it and photograph it again.  In the background you can see pier 6 and the lighthouse on pier 5 that’s part of the Maritime […]

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When I told people I was going to the Loch Raven Reservoir to take some pictures, the general response was: “Don’t fall in this time.”  So I did listen and did not fall into the reservoir this time around.  
For those who are unfamiliar with Loch Raven Reservoir, it is one of three reservoirs in Baltimore […]

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At dinner tonight, the subject of both barbeque and of this website came up.  So as a tribute to that and to those who might have gone right home and checked the site, here’s a shot from last November. 

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