Witchspace

When not at work, I try to maintain my sanity by wandering around taking photos at random (more at www.flickr.com/photos/shynd...) Feel free to use and abuse, but an attribution wouldn't go amiss. Note, I routinely poison images I upload ... your choice, but I would not use them as training data

One of the most popular small decorative pumpkin variants, Jack Be Littles. They have that shape, that color, and here's a pile of them. #Photography #31DaysOfHalloween

Different sort of wanderings today, doctors' surgeries for checkups, and apparently the perfect "childless cat lady" wall calendar #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQForQuotes

Happy Mondays folks. @helenbennett.bsky.social is at the helm of #BirdOfTheDay today, and would like to see some #OnOneLeg shots. Just so happens I have footage from a female mallard by the Susquehanna River showing off her Arabesque. Now if only I had composed it better! #Birds #Photography #ECK

Forget Christine, Death Proof, The Duel ... when it comes to scary cars that have their eye on you meet the pumpkinator, the demonic ... um ... Claudette #Photography #31DaysOfHalloween

Behold the duck. It does not cluck. A cluck it lacks. It quacks. It is specially fond Of a puddle or pond. When it dines or sups, It bottoms ups. -- Ogden Nash Female mallard decides to pose in the day's dying light #BirdOfTheDay #BrownBirds #Birds #Photography #ImageAndVerse #ECK #Stunday

Earlier I posted some shots from inside historic vehicle sheds in Lancaster County, so it seems fitting that today's #BenchOfTheDay not be some tranquil picturesque park bound space, but rather a bench outside those self same vehicle sheds, full of mechanical wonders #Photography #ClassicMono #ECK

Another monochrome automobile, along with a sunset view across the muddy river. Couple of folks standing around admiring a white corvette with the last light of the day #Photography #ECK #BlueSkyArtShow #Transportation #ClassicMono

Rail line in York drifting through a city park and on into the distance #BlueSkyArtShow #ArchForma #Transportation #ECK #Photography

Mentioned 50s station wagons earlier, and while out streetwalking ... wait ... phrasing ... umm ... lets move on ... came across this Ford, very beige; project for renovation or Cuban import, unsure #Photography #ECK #BlueSkyArtShow #Transportation #ClassicMono

Late season sunrise Susquehanna fisher folk boats #Photography #ECK #BlueSkyArtShow #Transportation

Say Studebaker and I'm pretty sure most folks imagine some oversized 1950s station wagon ... but here's an altogether different vehicle from their coach building origins; a 19th century horse drawn water wagon #Photography #ECK #BlueSkyArtShow #Transportation #ColorADay #GreenSat

A historic mail and passenger sleigh from the Rural Free Delivery program as used late in the 19th century to handle things in icy winter months. #Photography #ECK #BlueSkyArtShow #Transportation

The original, a Ford Model T in wonderful shape, sitting in the yard at Rough & Tumble at Kinzers, PA #Photography #ECK #BlueSkyArtShow #Transportation

Welcome to the weekend, and good luck on out-staring this American robin who is a little indignant that @robcrank68.bsky.social has chosen #Robins as the alt theme today. #Birds #ECK #Photography #Nature #ForJanet

Too busy for park wanderings today alas, so diving into the archive for a suitable #BenchOfTheDay. This one I would love to talk to and learn its history. By all accounts a church pew ... painted with far less religious symbology, and I found it, discarded, in an alleyway #ColorADay #BWFri #ECK

The short stubby form of a tank engine, less oppressive than their larger mainline cousins, and beloved by readers of the Rev. Wilbert Awdry since 1946. This one's not on Sodor, but passing through the Pennsylvania town of ... Railroad. #ArchForma #Transportation #Photography #Railway #ECK

Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social is covering for Alan with today's #BirdOfTheDay themes; going to take the alternate of the two; #Green. Should have kept my power dry with the earlier juvenile red tailed hawk, but c'est la vie Instead, a goose, drunk on watching the sunset. #Birds #ECK #Photography

Good morning, another beautiful clear morning here; drama free clear skies, but I'll take it. View here from Samuel Lewis State Park looking north-east across both the old and new bridge across the Susquehanna at Columbia and on over Lancaster County #Photography #Scape #ECK

As much as folks in the UK may moan about the train network ... and as a Thameslink traveler for many years, I understand ... it wasn't until I got to the US that they asked me to power the train myself! Rail bike train at rest #ArchForma #Transportation #Photography #Railway #PedalPower #ECK

Another wander-snap as folks liked yesterday, also ... finally saw people engaged in disk golf ... And now I know they're just throwing Frisbees but probably can't call it that because ... sigh Further south at Lake Marburg ... for real this time #Photography #FallColors

Way the world is right now ... yeah, I would probably trust this as much as AI and more than Wall St to predict the next six months. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPForPaper #Photography #ECK

The epilogue mashup we didn't know we needed. Halloween Ends : 28 Days Later #31DaysOfHalloween #Photography

Ian @atlanticbirding.bsky.social is covering for Helen for #BirdOfTheDay and looking for #Seasonal pictures. Not had any recent great shots amongst the changing foliage, so instead here's a northern flicker who hopped onto a nearby bench late in the day last week 🦉🐦📷 #Birds #Wildlife #ECK

An overdue thank you for the likes and reposts; and for the locals who have inwardly sighed and maybe smiled each time I have referred to a certain lake as Redmond rather than Redman 😮‍💨 The former name is a bright point or locus of darkness for many of late and weighs heavy on the little grey cells

You might have expected today's #BenchOfTheDay to be from my Lake Williams wanders, but no. Instead a 'new bench' and its yet to be installed brother; for a little more context, you will need to peek at my next post. #Photography #ECK

Don't normally snap and share as I wander, or use my phone for shots, but today's colors made me want to #Photography #FallColors

Definite #BenchOfTheDay candidate

Welcome to Wednesday and in response to the #Black&White theme @atlanticbirding.bsky.social has chosen for today's #BirdOfTheDay; here's a duck on Kiwanis Lake this week showing off their very monochromatic plumage 🦉🐦📷 #Birds #ECK #Nature #Photography

Paper parasols drifting in the pink umbrella sky above York's Cherry Lane for breast cancer awareness #Photography #ECK #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPForPaper

First time I encountered these pumpkins, not going to lie, freaked me out a little. Color and texture depending on the light could be human skin ... *shudder* Porcelain dolls, great for decorating with flowers, not so great for carving; and still freaky! #Photography #ECK #31DaysOfHalloween

Different bench today, not one sitting out on its own, but one of a teaching group, clustered around a table in a nice shaded secluded spot within Samuel Lewis Park; in another world, I'm teaching my charges in fresh air beneath blue skies. #BenchOfTheDay #ECK #Photography #ClassicMono

In its time, the equivalent of a Bugatti or a Peterbilt, these steam driven workhorses were the must haves of their era. Now what to call this one .. street-engine? sheep-truck? Lets just leave it as road-train and hope no-one from Aus is reading this. #ArchForma #Transportation #Photography #ECK

When quizzed about today's #BirdOfTheDay, this eastern bluebird, perching upon the roof of a nesting box on the shores of Pinchot Lake said, "Doesn't matter what that @robcrank68.bsky.social says, they are not #LittleLegs I am just tetradactyly challenged" 🦉🐦📷 Night All 🤗 #Birds #Photography #ECK

Time for an attempt to chase the #BirdOfTheDay themes from Alan via @robcrank68.bsky.social of #Reflection or #Pairs. This pair for #MallardMonday come close ... ish ... was late in the day and had the lens a little too wide to get them both sharp ... and didn't check 🦉🐦📷 #Photography #Birds #ECK

Resisted long enough, we're over halfway through the month .. must be time to begin spamming a million pumpkin and gourd variations...or maybe 11 over the next couple of weeks. Undecided as to whether I will hit up Hershey for their Pumpkin Palooza this year. #Photography #31DaysOfHalloween #ECK

I should explain my lack of a response to @atlanticbirding.bsky.social's theme yesterday. Its in no way a sign of disrespect to the #Larus family; they are not a bunch of evil thugs who run local protection rackets, they have not kept any of my family hostage; I have nothing but love for gulls 🤪

So back from wanderings, and many random snaps to digest. Today's destination was ... well for now solely a #BenchOfTheDay (with thanks to @chriswielga.bsky.social) ... but Witch, what no water? Relax, Muddy Creek is right behind the bushes beyond the bench! #Photography #ECK #ClassicMono

Its Sunday, and I'm about to head out and snap given the wonderful weather, but time for a little #Stunday first. If you follow, you'll know I have been hitting Pinchot Lake this week now that leg and bridges are in a better state) so this image as Fall hits, will be no shock. #Photography #ECK