This is the last of my summer road trip blogs. For 12 weeks now, I traveled the region's roadways with my camera, bent upon discovery.
Inevitably, visual surprises emerged because they were there and because I was looking, whether the carefree joy of two boys fishing at sunset in the Pine Barrens, or the dignity of Boyertown's military-bear statue.
Click here or on the photo at right for a slide show of some of my favorite "Scene on the Road" photos from the summer. 
The picture above was taken by my son Jesse at the Ocean View Service Area on NJ's Garden State Parkway. I dragged him and his older sister Madeline there while we were on our way to visit friends at the Shore, and I wanted them to see first hand some of the places I'd visited (That's where I'd met Marvin Katzer of South Hampton/Ventnor in week 10). That's what the blog has been about all summer, a way to share a passion for photography by saying "look what I saw today!"
It has also allowed me to become more connected with you the readers - who like to get out and experience the region and love taking pictures while you're at it.
I plan to continue to blog occasionally, talking with you about photography as we all enjoy our own journeys. For now, it will happen in this same space. So thanks for reading and sharing your photos. cheers, TomG
Comments (1)
I saw the damnedest thing Tuesday morning when crossing 30th Street at Market (Post Office side). They don't get any more "Scene on the Road" than this. There was a rat filling a narrow pot hole in the street like dental amalgam! It looked for all the world to still be alive but just keeping a low profile. At lunch time I went back and took two pics with my cell phone. I have to hand it to the City of Philadelphia. What an elegant solution to two of its more notorious problems...axle breaking pot holes and rat infestations. Jonathan Swift would be impressed. I wondered at the time if we'd be seeing whole colonies in the larger holes, however, I was past there again this morning and, though the rat is still there, it has become decidedly convex.
Posted by Lola Fields | September 7, 2007 8:09 AM
Posted on September 7, 2007 08:09