Order vs Disorder

[Hoppy]

3. I'm getting older too, with ailments that come with age.

I am taking on challenges that were not difficult years ago.... a day hike to Sunfish Pond in the Delaware Water Gap. Maybe three or four hours round trip in past years, It took me five hours last month but I got there. I climbed most of Mt. Tammany at the Gap last Saturday. Years ago, I made it. This time I didn't. Next time in a week or so, I will complete the climb.

This is funny --- the name Mt. Tammany. You see, New Jersey doesn't have mountains. We have a couple of places that are named mountains but nothing is above 2,000 feet elevation. So we don't have mountains.


But, we have some great scenery. Birds, butterflies. My self-appointed task is to photograph them and show them to people so that they, in turn, will stop to look at the things around them and be amazed that such beauty was around them and they missed it and it will be there if they stop and look.

I guess I'm doing a good job of this because many people look at my photographs and begin to walk away but then some actually turn around and look again. The second time, taking longer to look. And they ask me "Where did you take that?" And I tell them, hoping they go to find the same place.

I look at things differently, I guess. That is because I am blind in one eye --- been that way since I was born. That means what I see through the viewfinder is the way I see things all the time.


I have tried to post my photos of New Jersey on the photo sub-site but I have never succeeded. A couple of DU'rs have tried to instruct me on how to post photos but it doesn't connect. Nothin' like an old fool, eh? But I am figuring how to post them and when I do , I will post the link