This room was part of the locked down unit (highest security unit…criminally insane) at the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia. I don’t want to know what happened in this space by the patients and to the patients….
Glade Creek Grist Mill
I doubt I’ll get out this fall color season to take many photos, so here is one I took in the past at Babcock State Park in WV.
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Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
I hope you have a great weekend. I don’t have any solid plans other then to relax, do some work around the house and spend time with family.
I took this photo last spring when Bob, Theatherwiz, Blair and I spent a weekend capturing photos of abandoned buildings including the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virigina.
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Lunatic Asylum
I couldn’t come up with a clever title for this post for a number of reasons, which we won’t get into tonight.
Anyway, I took this photo recently at the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston West Virginia. Unfortunately, they have the place all cleaned up. It wasn’t grungy enough for me. I wanted it in the state it was in when the Lunatic Asylum closed. They’ve got it all “safe”, clean and “pretty”. I think the real beauty would have been in the “dirty, stuff left behind” condition. If that makes sense…..
I made the best of it and captured some cool photos. This was on one of the upper floors. Something about this hallway caught my eye. Standing there, I could imagine all the patients (prisoners) being locked up in these little rooms. Some of the “treatments” and “therapies” they used over the decades was rough to put it mildly. When this facility was operational, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
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Morgue
I’ve been off social media for a few days. I just needed a break. I’m back now.
While I was away, I spent the entire weekend out taking photos, which felt great. One of the locations I photographed was the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia. We had full access to all the buildings for the entire morning, some portions of them going back to the Civil War. One of the buildings on the large campus was a medical facility. I can only guess what took place within that facility. In the lowest level, I came across the morgue. It still has a two-shelf human body cooler for storing bodies and a coffin on the floor. MJ referred to this photo as creepy. I didn’t feel that way, but I’m weird.
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Babcock State Park
I feel like I missed fall this year. I don’t know if it was because of my work schedule, travel schedule or if I just blinked and missed it. Regardless, I missed it. Thankfully, we had nice weather this weekend.
Anyway, here is a fall photo I took, not this fall, down at Babcock State Park in West Virginia. It’s an amazing spot.
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Grist Mill
Today’s picture is of the Grist Mill in Babcock State Park in West Virginia. We planned this perfectly to capture the fall color change at this spot and of course, it didn’t work out. As you can see, the color was changing, but we missed the peak fall foliage color.
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Babcock State Park
I hope you’re having a great weekend. I’m just taking it easy and enjoying some down time. Today’s photo is from Babcock State Park in West Virginia. Blair, MJ and I went down there last fall chasing the fall color change. As you can see, we missed it. But I got this great shot anyway.
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New River Gorge Bridge
A few weeks ago, we were driving through West Virginia and we got a chance to stop at this great location. Unfortunately, the sky wasn’t very pretty while we were there, but I liked my photo regardless.
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Glade Creek Grist Mill
MJ, Blair and I went down to southern West Virginia to see this mill in Babcock State Park. We were hoping for some good fall foliage and got a little of it. But not full peak color. We were probably a week to early. Regardless, we had a good time and I enjoyed seeing this spot.
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Rusty Junk
A few weeks ago, MJ and I piled in the car for one last sunny (and warm) drive before winter sets in. We went south to Cheat Lake, West Virginia to explore an area we’ve never visited. Cheat Lake is a beautiful man made lake just east of Morgantown. We went for a hike in Cheat Lake Park along the lake to the dam.
This beautiful trail had the lake on one side and a very large hill (mini mountain) on the other side of it. Well as we walked, MJ and I noticed all this junk way up the side of the hill above the trail. So on the way back, I decided to climb up to see what it was and photograph it. That sounds easy enough, but that climb wasn’t easy. Climbing down was even harder. Why this junk is on the side of the hill in the middle of nowhere….. I couldn’t tell you. My guess is some West Virginian wanted to get ride of it and decided pushing it over the hill would be easier then taking it to the junk yard….
At least it made for an interesting photo.
The Blackwater Falls
This is a 5-exposure set taken of the Blackwater Falls in
Blackwater Falls State Park, West Virginia. This is one of many waterfalls in this state park and this
specific one is over 50 feet tall.
Over the winter, they had a landslide that destroyed the lower
boardwalk, so while we where there you couldn’t get down to the lower viewing
platform seen in the photo. That
was all right with me, because that might have been to close for photography
anyway and people would have been in my shot.
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http://www.blackwaterfalls.com/
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Blackwater Falls State Park
MJ and I had nothing planned today and it was a sunny, but a
bit cool. I mentioned to her in
the past that I wanted to go to Blackwater Falls State Park in WV. So this morning she suggested we pile
in the car and go check it out. We
did some last minute packing (camera, maps, hiking boots, etc…) and away we
went. It took us a little over two
hours to get there and we spent most of the day in the state park. It doesn’t sounds like much, but we
hiked about 6 miles in some very rough territory (some would call it
mountainous). We climbed all over
the ravines, valleys, rivers, and trails.
All so I could take a few more photos. Imagine that!!!.
Additional Note:
Today is my Uncle Jim’s birthday. I hope he had a great day.
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