Downriver-most point on Jamestown Island. The Jamestown settlement is a few miles upriver

This point is at the end of a short walking path of the loop road around the island. I found this a great place to walk around and take pictures (of the same things each time :) ).

This is the only formal hiking path on te island ... but I stumbled over a few things wandering through the woods. It's so overgrown though, there's barely enough room for the mosquitos between the trees and vines.

Sometime I'll have to tell of the time some "concerned citizens" reported me to a ranger for carrying a rifle. After very little confusion, the ranger determined my tripod was not a rifle and let me go.

I imagine "concerned citizen" went home happy having done his "civic duty".

But that's a story for a different time.

The carnival has left. No more cotton candy, corn dogs, sno-cones.
No more "toss the ring", "shoot the ducks", "are you man or mouse" games.

No more "toss your cookies" rides.
No more watching young kids on their first solo "adult" rides.
No more watching nervous parents watching the kids on their first solo adult rides.
No more watching teenage boys chase the uncatchable.
No more watching the uncatchable play at being catchable.

No more funhouse, rooms of mirrors, barking carnies.

No more carny sounds, carney smells, the hot sun of a summer's day.
'Tis the time of the season.

Saw this sitting out in the back lot of an artist's studio near Loveland, CO. The back lot ... with the dumpsters and such. Not up front on display.

Stopped in to talk with the fellow.

The story I got was that someone commissioned this sculpture but was not able to pay for it. Supposedly $30,000 melt value of bronze. Someone that had ... emphasize "had" ... the $100k or so to justify accepting the commission.

It's the face and figure of the guy it was to go to.

"Who wants a large statue of some other guy?"
. . . . .
"Maybe someone will buy it"

That was long ago; haven't been back.
I wonder what happened to it.

Yorktown Bridge

I once lived in York County outside Williamsburg, VA and often travelled the Colonial Parkway to Yorktown, the county seat. There is a section of the Parkway where one has a good view of the bridge.

I wouldn't live there again but I'd be willing to visit. There will be more posts focused on that area in times to come.