Philippines or Bust Pt.4
Philippines or Bust Pt.4
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Next leg of the journey done. On to Manila
Philippines or Bust Pt.4
Philippines or Bust Pt.4
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Next leg of the journey done. On to Manila
The Philippines or Bust Pt 2
The Philippines or Bust Pt 2
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Made it to JFK
Philippines or Bust Pt 1
Philippines or Bust Pt 1
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I haven’t been able to post to this challenge in a while. This week’s TRAVEL THEME FROM AILSA IS STEPS.
To step in time with this post click the underlined link. Here are my steps in time.

Steps at Torc Falls, Killarney

The Witches Stairs, Blarney Castle

Steps to the bell tower, Vrie Universitad
This week the Daily Post has asked us to conceptualize BRIDGES in our photography.
Here are my thoughts:

Giant’s Causeway, Ireland, a fabled broken bridge between Ireland and Scotland

This is the Peace bridge in Derry, Northern Ireland

On the banks of the Liffey

New England, Snow Bridge over Brow’s Creek.
Here are some more bridges:
This week Cee has asked us to have PHOTOGRAPHIC FUN WITH COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS.
Will do Cee!
Here are my fun commercial buildings.

They make chocolate here I think. Or maybe Collies. My sister would know which.

Cabras Castle is actually a high end hotel. My daughter and I got to stay in the stables.

It’s bigger on the inside than on the outside and the owner spends time.

This was one of my favorite summer stops when I was a kid.

Maple Syrup is big business in these parts

Blending In
Since I had little money to spend on extravagances this year I chose to take several free galavants through the countryside for my vacation.
One of the places I hiked was Doane’s Falls in Royalston MA. Doanes is just at the outlet of the Miller’s River as it makes its way into the Tully Dam spillway.

The first time I walked the falls was with my grandparents when I was a little boy. I don’t think I have walked all the way through to Tully since.

Usually the head waters of the falls are broiling making it very dangerous to swim. Many a diver has jumped into the pool never to reemerge. With the little rainfall we have had the first falls are reduced to a mere trickle of their usual volume.

The second falls

The third falls


Several boasters were taking advantage of the summer heat out on the Tully Dam waterway. It was a beautiful summer day and the whole hike took me about an hour and a half. When you visit bring plenty of water, bug spray and mind the poison ivy!