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I found this shot the other day of the bridge over the Potomac at Harper’s Ferry.  I really enjoy it for some reason

MDP had a great time at a minor league ball game this Monday.  Don’t know if this shot is enough to reveal where it was, but I’ll let you guess until tomorrow.

Ok we will continue to sporadically post some more shots from Taylors Chapel, but we’re going to post a less depressing Friday sports shot.

I always enjoy seeing these baseball shaped plaques along Eutaw street, which denote where players have hit balls over the right field wall.   This has always been a favorite despite the fact it wasn’t hit by an Oriole becasue it seemed like such a feat at the time to not only hit a ball over the wall, but over the flag court and the street and to hit the warehouse 8 feet above the ground.  Granted this was at the All Star home run derby, not a real game, but still….

A few weeks ago when we visited Mt. Pleasant Golf Course, we skipped past a significant landmark.  However, that’s exactly what happens every time you enter Mt. Pleasant golf course, you pass by Taylors Chapel.   The chapel was built in the 1853 by the Taylor Family, who owned the Mt. Pleasant Plantation.   The chapel is significant because it’s one of only two such private chapels left in the City of Baltimore.  It’s also important because its interior is decorated with frescoes which remain in tact today.

If you correctly identified the sliver of a train station in Tuesday’s picture as Dorsey, then you deserve a hand.  

If you have ever exited onto russell st. from I95 you have likely passed right past this very stack.  It belongs to a trash incinerator and power gernerator located just south of the Ravens stadium.  Where did the name Resco come from for this plant?  It stands for Refuse Energy Systems Co.

This is one of the newer engines in the MARC fleet.    I believe that despite its new looks it is actually a refurbished engine that the MTA purchased a few years back from another transit system.  bonus points if you can pick out this location.

This morning was a bit of a rushed period of time at the MDPhotoquarters.  So luckily I have had this one saved for a while. If you’ve ever seen the ad campaign for 1877bayspan you’ll probably get the joke in this title.  Otherwise, it’s just another picture from the Salisbury zoo.

From the memorial to Maryland soliders at Antietam

This picture and yesterday’s picture show what is left of the Wye Oak.  Located in Talbot county, just a few miles off of Rt. 50, the Wye Oak was at one time a significant attraction.   Formerly the largest White Oak tree in the United states, it was struck by lightning in 2002.    It was 460 years old at the time if the lightning strike.  

Just to put this tree’s age in scale, today’s picture, like all of the  pictures on this site is 700 pixels wide.  That isn’t even close to capable of the resolving power to show you all of the tree’s rings. 

The tree was able to achieve 460 years of life thanks to care of the many owners and the state, which eventually took ownership of the tree and built a park around it.  It was indeed sad for many when the tree was destroyed. 

After the lightning strike this section of tree was moved 20 yards west of the tree’s original site and placed in a gazebo for visitors to see.  Part of the tree also went to making a new desk for the governor.  

To read more about the tree you can go to the state’s site for the tree here.