Today’s photo comes from corresponding photographer Shelly, who brings us this picture of some iced over lines connecting to a house that already has a downed line sitting right outside of it.
February, 2010
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Feb 10
Baltimore and Annapolis RR
Today we are stepping away from the snow pictures. This is a picture of an engine from the now defunct Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad. This particular engine now sits outside the B&O railroad museum. The Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad was a short line running passengers and freight from Annapolis to just south of Baltimore where it connected with the B&O line to come into Baltimore. There’s little I can tell you from my own knowledge, and though somewhat rare for me to do, I’m going to fully recommend that you visit the B&A Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_and_Annapolis_Railroad it’s full of the history of the railroad, including a list of surviving stations. I also find it interesting that much of the line is now part of the light rail line, and another part of the line is currently a popular rail-trail leading south from BWI.
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Feb 10
Another Winter Scene
Like yesterday’s photo, this one came from close to my home because, without power, without heat, and without the ability to move my car, there were limited options this weekend. Did you notice the odd part of this scene? That tree still has it’s leaves. They all died but never fell off. In fact looking at the same tree this morning, there were many leaves on the ground around it. Turns out the only thing that can make them fall off is a big heap of heavy snow.
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Feb 10
MDP is two hours delayed, but the Hereford Zone will be Closed
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
Happy 2nd Birthday MDP (Belated)
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
Center for Learning and Technology
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
Castle in the Forest
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
Meadowbrook Stables 2
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
What Has Been Going on With the Moon?
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.