The 100th blog post! Yippee!

This is the 100th post in the blog.  Two and a half months have passed.  We have been around the continental USA.

Thank you for following the blog!  Seeing your comments and likes have meant a lot to me.

It has been my pleasure to share my adventures with you – in photographs.

In honor of the 100th post, we will revisit some of my favorite photos from the road…  I hope you enjoy….

Swanville, Maine….

North of Valrico, Florida….

Alexandria Bay, New York…

Nebraska…

Newport, Oregon….

Sonoma County, California….

Indiana…

New York, New York…

Toronto, Ontario, Canada….

Deer Isle, Maine…

Amherst, Massachusetts area….

Northfield, Minnesota…

Kent, Connecticut area….

Oregon coast…

Buffalo, New York…

Sarasota, Florida…

Bear Mountain, New York….

Reader, West Virginia….

Washington, D.C….

South Carolina….

Trinidad, California….

Port Townsend, Washington….

Sullivan Beach, South Carolina

Panama City Beach, Florida…

Selma, Alabama…

Louisiana…

New Mexico…

Los Angeles, California….

Cold Spring, New York….

Manzanita, Oregon….

Missoula, Montana…

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             Eileen Newman, Photographer and Documentary Filmmaker               eileen14800@gmail.com                      503-451-0385

All photographs and blog content – copyright 2011 – 2015  Eileen Newman

West Virginia – Reader

Reader is a small community located in the northwestern part of West Virginia.  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reader,_West_Virginia)

I visited a beautiful hilly farm on the outskirts of town.

The owner of the farm told me that the Reader region is having problems due to fracking.  The groundwater is polluted.  They need to build a water line to extend ten miles or so to New Martinsville, so they can get some clean water.  The owner of the farm explained that West Virginia’s land mineral rights are separate from land ownership.  In other words, anyone can buy the mineral rights to any part of another person’s property  (which is what the fracking companies did).  Sadly, there isn’t much that land owners can do about fracking on or near their property.

It’s a pity!  The area is wonderful!

The view from the front porch of the house…

The outhouse….

a beautiful flower….

a path through the woods…

a butterfly….

artistic pine cones…

the road away from the farm…

some horses along the way…

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              Eileen Newman, Photographer and Documentary Filmmaker           eileen14800@gmail.com                      503-451-0385

Photographs and blog content – copyright 2011-2014  Eileen Newman