• Boom Scenario

    Empty streets. Quiet but for the grinding rumble of snowplow blades scraping the pavement. Fresh snow underfoot. More than two feet between Friday and Saturday. A city paralyzed. And beauty all around.

  • Bridges and Rubble

    Looking north into Maryland from West Virginia as a freight train rolls south on the leftmost bridge, with the remnants of a third on the right. The rocky outcrop is where Potomac Bridges was taken.

  • Crumbling Station

    The westbound platform of the Amtrak station in Harper’s Ferry, looking toward the Potomac River just after sunset.

  • Potomac Bridges

    Looking down on Harper’s Ferry from the trail above the river.

  • Clearing

    An opening along the trail above Harper’s Ferry.

  • Ridgeline Camp

    Where in 1862, the Union Army hunkered down for its eventual battle with the Confederates.

  • Broken Barn

    From early winter, an old tree and dilapidated barn on the street where I grew up.