Happy Halloween 2015

And so ends the month of October.  From a walking perspective, it was a bit of a tough row to hoe.  I ended up with just (and I mean just) over 310 miles coming in 33 miles short of my original goal of an 11 mile per day month.  Don't get me wrong...after I adjusted my goal down to 10 miles per day sometime during the Bourbon Chase weekend, things clipped along smoothly, and I feel pretty good about the final result.  I did reel in the last couple of miles for the month escorting the kiddos on their round of Trick or Treating, and that seems like a new tradition that I'll try to keep moving into the future.

At any rate, October is passed, but i did manage to capture quite a few images of the sun rising over the Severn River this morning.  The day turned out to be a spectacular success from a weather perspective, and once again, I'll leave you with some images that attempt to convey the grandeur that I encountered earlier today.

Sunrise over the Severn just beginning to manifest itself from the top of Strawberry Hill

This shot has the clearest picture of the now abandoned ELF radio towers on the end of Greenbury Point.  I like to think of these towers as casualties to the end of the Cold War, but I strongly suspect their function has just been replaced with a more reliable capability.

Sunrise over the Severn Continues from a little farther down the Hillside

As I was walking down Strawberry Hill, I remember being concerned that I'd missed the most striking part of the sunrise.  There was very little cloud cover, and the pink hued clouds that I'd seen from the back side of the hill had mostly faded by this point in the sequence.  Happily, my unduly pessimistic predictions ended up being a touch inaccurate.

Sunrise over the Severn as seen from the Sea Wall on the River Side of Forrest Sherman Field

As the pink faded away, the cerulean blue of the sky deepened, and the reflection of the rising sum began to reflect off the windows of Nimitz Library and the water to the left.  There is also a ship that is very difficult to see at this level of zoom that was reflecting the sunlight off its midbody side as she rode at anchor oriented in a north-south direction at the mouth of the River.

Sunrise over the Severn Reflected in the Starboard Side of an Anchored Ship

This blown-up shot shows the sunlight reflecting off the starboard side of the anchored tanker.  There's a little graininess due to the level of magnification, but I continue to be amazed at the capability of the digital camera associated with my phone.

Sunrise over the Severn...Just About There

Down to one remaining photo, and I'm grateful that I got to spend a fantastic twenty minutes or so watching the unfolding of the start of another great day.

Sunrise over the Severn...Last One

And so ends October 2015.