Calendar of Photo Walks

This calendar illustrates all the places I have visited and the month visited. Notice that only one visit is shown per month even if I visited multiple times.

French Creek State Park (Book)

My first book is published!

It's titled, "French Creek State Park, Four Seasons"

Please click the link to BLURB to preview the book and to order.

This has been a two year project consisting of monthly visits to the park. The book itself took several months to create. I filtered the collection of 3,000 digital pictures down to 500 then selected the best 200+ that fit the theme of the book. The book consists 0f 76 color and 4 b&w pages with various templates from many full page bleeds to collages.

Berks Awhile Destinations in Google Maps

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MAPS

Trail, Area, Region Maps
Elverson Hikers & Flying Pigs (GeoCaching) - Hand drawn & actual maps
French Creek State Park
Nolde State Forest
Neversink Moutain Preserve
Wyomissing Creek Trail
Mount Penn Trail System
Angelica Creek Greenway
Monocacy Hill Recreation Area
Horseshoe Trail (Berks County)
Riverwalk Trail (Reading)
Schuylkill River Trail System
Thun Trail (SRT: Gibraltar to Pottstown)
Thun Trail (SRT: Reading to Gibraltar)
Blue Marsh Lake Trail System
Hawk Mountain
Thomas Hill [Warwick] SGL#43 (Berks/Chester Co.)
The Pinnacle Trails
Weiser State Forest (Regional Map - huge file)
Blue Mt. [Strausstown] SGL#110 (A.T. - Berks/Schuylkill Co.)
Blue Mt. [Port Clinton] SGL#110 (A.T. - Berks Co.)
Blue Mt. [Hawk Mt Area] SGL#106 (A.T. - Berks/Schuylkill Co.)
Port Clinton/Hamburg SGL#106 (A.T. - Berks/Schuylkill Co.)

Chester County
Crows Nest Preserve
Welkinweir Estate
Horseshoe Trail (Chester Co.)
Black Rock Preserve
Jenkins Arboretum (Devon)

Other Counties
Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area SGL#46 (Lancaster Co.)
Valley Forge National Park (Montgomery Co.)
Valley Forge National Park Trail Maps (Montgomery Co.)
Shikellamy State Park (Northumberland/Union Co.)
Bald Eagle State Forest (Multiple Counties)http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_126465_11363_0_43/http;/www.sgl.state.pa.us/zoom_maps.aspx?rgn=Southeast&sgl=106

First Post - Photo Walking

Photo Walking: I just learned of this term. Literally to take a walk with a camera with the intent to take pictures. There are many websites and blogs dedicated to this recreation. By definition this is what I do, but I think of it as a lot more.

Regularly, as time and weather permit, I travel with a camera to various walking/hiking destinations in and around Berks County.

It's an important part of physical and mental health as well for me and my sidekick Max, my three year old mini dachshund. I've been actually doing this for a couple of years so I'll be back-filling posts chronologically in this blog.

This is the first post of my blog. The title "Berks Awhile" is a play on words representing "Berks County" and the colloquialism and often used "Awhile".