Just Stopped IN

to see what condition my condition was in!!

I am missing all my good buds here at the blog. I am trying to decide if the phototips will continue to be the mainstay of this blog, they may become a bonus for the blog but the blog may change to something a little more out there...........I am not doing as much photo work as I had but am still working on some new experiences so I want to include them into the ol blog.

I want to first off say Thanks for visiting me and as I had said my time is at a premium with working on stories by Josiah Kepner my {alter ego} of the past!!

more to come on that experience............

I am doing two assignments for the wonderful new Celebrate Gettysburg/
A wonderful glimpse into life in and around Adams County!!!!

There are four images in the Sept/Oct issue they are from past Apple Harvest Events Check em' out!!

Secondly Please come Visit Me at Pippinfest {space 154} Sunday September 30 on the streets of Fairfield, Pennsylvania.

Please stop by and say Howdy!!!!! There is always GREAT food, a Car show,
and lots of cool items to oogle and of course there is the situation of visit'n with all your old friends you may not have seen in eons...

With that invite I will close and say "Have a Great Monday"

"Honest Good Humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and the laughter abundant."

Washington Irving

It's 4 A.M.

Here I am on the night shift ,I worked for 8 years as a photojournalist and I don't understand yet today why all the bad accidents/fires etc. seem to happen in the middle of the night at any rate all of that late night photography has this ol' fart's body outta whack.

So I thought I'd poke out a blog.

I hope that all my blog phriends are happy healthy and spread'n their prayer field wide and positive as they walk down this ol' path we call life!

Please accept my personal invitation to visit Fairfield PA's Annual Pippinfest on September 30, You'll find my smil'n face at space 154 please drop by and say "howdy".

This is my first show so it is taking up a lot of time in preparation but I am really excited it'll be fun for sure.

I am formulating ideas and paths to follow with the "Tales of Josiah" I will be offering segments up as downloads on dickbloom.com as Josiah comes into his own as a young man growing up as a farmboy during the era of the Civil War with the highlight in the area being the famous battle of Gettysburg and watching his relative David Stoops heads off to see the elephant with Company G ,209th PA Volunteers with 79 other enlistees from Adams County.

Company G was organized in Gettysburg on September 1st,1864 just 14 months after the Battle of Gettysburg.

My photo find and discussion today is about my new camera, it is beautiful, it is a bellows style fold open Kodak 616 with its original case in nice shape. It appears to have had almost no useage, looks as new no wear a yardsale find for cheap. I am going to try to locate film

Howdy Blog phriends

It has been quite a whirlwind of a week this is the first time at the board for many moons.

That is the way it is when all of a you become a new person in just a couple of weeks. I must first off invite all of ya to come visit Gettysburg's freshest new and most novel ghost experience! for more information go tothecatsmeowofgettysburg.com

Things are moving rapidly so therefore I must adapt and do some research on the character Josiah Kepner it is really quite exciting to put the impression together from top to bottom.

Josiah is a young man who would 've been living near Fairfield in July of 1863 when the famous civil war battle Pickett's Charge was at its crecendo on July 3rd, 1863

He could've and most likely watched from cover as he and his cousin viewed a cavalary battle that took place at the same time as Pickett's Charge between Orrtanna and Fairfield known as the Battle of Fairfield.

That is the premise of the character Josiah Kepner......

I do not have time to offer up a photo comment today cause I just get to loooooong winded as ya'll know.

Please come visit me here for sure!!!!..... I will try to keep postin' they may be short and hopefully sweet. Ya'll ain't a fer piece from here no way...

"The Wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself " "I Shall to-day be uppermost."

Confucius