The MWLFA usually has a post event thread. I was amazed and delighted at quiet Colleen's response.
Thank you for the responses here already. I hope you all has as good a time.
John
May-Viva la Cuyahoga!
« on: May 17, 2010, 01:59:23 PM »
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Excellent weekend! I left home Friday morning for Ohio, and had absolutely no traffic, which was nice. It took a little over 7 hours of driving to get there. I had totally forgotten about the time zone change until I passed Elkhart IN. Elkhart made me think of Mike, which made me think of Frank’s story about driving there in a snowstorm and thinking he was early, but was actually late because of the time change and DING DING DING I remembered about the time issue, which altered some of my plans slightly.
Anyway, I made it over to John & Dolly’s, met some other people and we all went out for dinner and made plans for the next day.
We planned a meeting place for 7 am, and John suggested Horseshoe Pond as an easy place for me to check out at dawn.
Saturday morning I did check out the pond-there was a very nice mist hovering over the surface and I used a couple sheets of film there. I then went on to the 7:00 meeting place and it was decided to go to the Beaver Marsh.
The marsh was really cool-lots of lily pads, lotus(I think), trees, and grasses scattered through the open water, and a boardwalk taking you through the middle of all this. We shared it with a lot of birders and people with big glass. Another photographer steered us down a short trail in the woods where there was a profusion of yellow flags blooming, though the shot was difficult due to lighting conditions and mud.
A lady asked me if my camera was an old 35 mm, but she was just being funny.
After the marsh, we hung out by John’s until lunch. After lunch, we checked out a nearby lock, then went to find some old rusting paper mill equipment sitting in a meadow. We found it, but the gate that was previously unlocked was now locked and we thought we might be pushing our luck by crawling through the slit in the chain link. We continued on to the Everett Road Covered Bridge, and moved on to dinner after that.
Sunday morning we hit Blue Hen Falls(I was late getting there due to some ongoing issues with the hotel alarm clock so I missed most of the others who had already headed up the stream to Buttermilk Falls). Blue Hen is fabulous and larger than I had expected from the pictures I had seen on the web. After that, I decided to start the drive home.
Cuyahoga definitely merits more exploration-there are tons of great photos concentrated in a fairly small area. I really want to get back there for a longer stay now that I’ve seen what’s there.
Thanks John for the invite and opening my eyes to Ohio!
Colleen
