Autumn leaves create some glorious vistas in western Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, my visit missed the season’s peak by a couple of weeks. Many of the trees are already naked, but there is still quite a bit of beauty to be found.
The photo above is a small pond, a short distance up the road from my parents’ house.
This waterfall and once-functional water wheel sit at the edge of what used to be a trout fishing lake, where I worked a couple of summers during high school. The harsh elements have not been kind to the water wheel, though, splintering its rotten wood.
Next up is a shot of my family’s very first Christmas tree, from way back in December, 1974. My parents had the brilliant idea of getting a blue spruce with its roots balled up and planted it after the holidays. It’s hard to tell from the photo, but the tree rises over eighty feet off the ground.
This is a shot of Clear Shade Creek. There used to be a beaver dam here, but someone recently broke it apart.
Another shot of the trout fishing lake, this time above the waterfall.
This building is the humble seat of government for the township.
The last photo is of an ugly, characterless concrete bridge that replaced the rickety wooden bridge, under which the neighborhood children had spent many an afternoon playing.
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