Eclipse

All my pics are public domain

I set my tripod over on the end of the track and took bunches of pics of people on top. Not much detail but if u were here during the eclipse, You might be in some of them.

Above was where my tripod was below (yellow cap) is a picture I captured using time lapse.. 

  

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 Mount Pleasant has been my santuary in my last years, 

 

  Until last sumer my pals were Saint Benards, this is Puparonia

  I take lots of pics and don't post them all cept if there is a group, with so many expressions, blinking n laughing, then I might do a few of that pose.

These pics and a few hundred more of people on mt p with a telephoto are here. If u were close to the edge,probablly got u  HERE

On this night I captured a video of a plane flying over the sun.

Mtp Exploration

 

Science fair..
 Remembering all the things taught in school, then looking at myself and others, thinking how much of the info was ever used or remembered.

In the years that I have been coming out, I thought that <punt Pleasant ould be a great learning lab for students and would actually be used through out their lives.

If you peek at this idea, follow the sequence under labels 00 01 02 ...

Not so hard to understand but it takes a bit of thought. Things taught algebra trigonometry.. are not easy to understand .. used by very few.

You can subscribe to the blog to follow along if any more thoughts are added.

RpGroup    (https://mtp-explorers.blogspot.com/ )

Crusing

 Throuigh the years that I have sat on the bank watching tennis players, cars  driving by with their heads sticking out the window .. 
It is a place to hang out with family n pals or just to observe.

It is ok to go to car shows and look around what others have built but .. you are not involved in the doings just being a spectator. 

Wash em, polish em n make em stand out .. Glad it is gone but when I was a kid, guys tied squirrel tails to their antennas

 

Is cruising around in your car a sport.. Me thinking it is a social activity .. people of all ages like to cruse around n their ride.

The park it's self is not a place to have such event but to check out the interest of people with their rides.

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Organizing Cruising on our home turf, some of my thoughts.

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Cruising sounds

Riding around on the weekends and listening to the radio was cool when I was a pup. There were lots of songs about cars.

I like music from the generations that came after me but I don't remember many songs about drag racing .. cruising around with your pals.
What ever your generation .. if they were still riding around beeping their horns n surfing through drive ins, what songs would your pals be playing?

If you are from the Lancaster Ohio area, have pics of cool cars then or now that I can add to this page, 
I created this facebook for that 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/weekendcruising

What to do when the sun goes down in Lancaster Ohio

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When I was a pup I always wanted a roaster but only got to ride to the drive inns with pals, till I grew up (kinda) n bought something like it :)

In 2020 during the virus caper someone called for a cruse in and the parking lots were full of people hanging out like back in the day n I drove around with my pup taking pics 😋

Knowing the science of weekend cruising I did a quick paste up of a route 

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?hl=en&mid=13UCNpdnpqeS3evddHNGIP86HM-8Go4E&ll=39.72205216573958%2C-82.60097622491459&z=14

Not just those with cool cars were in to it but all of them were part of the ride.

Guys n girls of all ages loved the ride then and now.

How to organize ... hmmm 
*  In your school fb groups

*  Make up some flyers to share at car shows (just here in Lancaster) . to people you will know and those working there

Car shows Lancaster Ohio

*  Going through the ride route stopping in food places.. I would bet they would go along and have cruse night specials.

*  Car parts places, cycle shops

* There is a new food place that opened up out by the Tractor Supply... Jimmy's Drive (now a truck) they might get into it.

* Mobile food stands, every once in a while I see them popping up in some space with good traffic. They might get in on the cruse nights, finding locations along with the cruse trail.

The red icons on the map are points of interest. To plot out a good map a ride through the route with a camera spotting places of interest where cars could stop and mingle or load up on food.

Some of the places along the route are parking lots to mingle .. places to get gas (those stations might put up flyers)

Me thinking what a fun thing to bring it back for all generations and the kids who only saw it in the movies.

Going to car shows n looking at fancy works of others.. take some pics with the cars, it is OK but hanging out on the streets n parking spots with others after dark.. that is the magic to capture.
Not just those with super cars but the average bears crusing through the streets ... all were parked in the hot spots on weekend nights.

I'll bet one of the radio stations would jump in and take the roll of wolf man jack.. well kind of  😋

I don't know who got the event started (the mayor?) but Kookie n me was just on the way to Walmart n I thought what great pics to capture. If you know any of these guys tell em where they can copy their pics :)

Weekend cruising in Lancaster Ohio 

A fun idea .. share the page if u wanna ..

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School Photos

Prom pics, dress up pics at rising park

I figure being so excited, people are happy to have pics of them, because they n their pals are in em 

I always notice things about photos .. what I think would make them the best.

Does LHS have a photography club or year book staff.. bet they do and would be great at helping kids get great photos.

Seeing a bunch of em swarming by the gazebo to take pics. In bright sun, squinting and shining 

In the afternoon on the south side of the pond it is shady. Standing there with the fountain behind em, maybe a bit of flash.. great pics.

When it is bright and people are under the gazebo their features vanish in shade but a bit of fill in flash, helps lots.

Taking pics under trees on sunny days, often there are bright spots and spiderweb shadows on their faces. Solid shade is best.

Bottom right , last year I spotted these guys.. thinking but didn't ..

Also just above the gazebo is the big shelter house, often empty but a great place to take photos, you could even reserve it for your special photo taking days 😋

Might even have music n little gatherings.

If you know anyone on a yearbook staff or photography club, put your heads together n make a plan stan

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Yearbooks 

In my days there were those who captured some candids of the kids but mostly sports events, proms n mug shots of everyone. 

Kind of the same thing now but photos, everything is recorded to digital bites on a hard drive

The end up as jpg this and video clip of that .

Looking through groups, people looking for old year books. After they are gone, family members sometimes donate their yearbooks.

Lets say everything placed in paper year books was composed of 500 digital files. A cd or usb can contain much more info than that and be in bright clear images.

Instead or along with the paper year books schools could offer custome cds or usb 'books'. They would contain all the stuff put in the 'regular' year books but any student could paste their favorite memories, their pals the fun stuff.

They could contain pics of the kids from the first time they got on the bus, pics of them in the stands with their pals. 

CDs including everyone

So easy and less that $2 a copy.

Fun ideas

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I like to inspire kids entering their senior year to create a graduation video.

You can integrate video clips and still pics and combine them with music.

If you make it too long very few people will get to the end.

I like to make them the length of a song. For you guys, Friends Forever is a great sound track.

*   Collect pics of your last summer before entering the senior year.

*  Through out the year will be events you are in or attend, collect pics up till graduation n when u r in that, someone will collect the last shots.

Video clips.. edited to about 10 secs. You n your pals will have your memories jogged as soon as it pops up.

The song is about 5  1/2 minutes long... hypothetical example, say there is one minute of video clips.. leaving 4 minutes for stills.

4 x 60 = 240 secs for still clips.
I like my stills to be displayed for 3 secs = 80
With this arrangement you could have 80 pics and a minute video in your graduation song,



Here is one these guys did 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoV6dmE5IJU

Now for the song, you don't take a canned copy but your gang sings it together.
You likely have kids that play all kind of instruments.

Upload it to youtube and I am telling you, it will be watched over n over for years to come :)

You can click on the f below to share this fun project.

I have no kids in school, but photoshop/photography is my great love.

Looking for my own facebook friends.. guessing 95% do not read my post, when I see some of em I think will graduate next year, I will message em n hope they don't 'unfriend me' :)

If you happen to be one of the Pumpkins from the Lancaster area, I am thinking Rising Park would be a great place for some clips.. how many of you have not stood on top with your pals and looked over the city ?

A music slide show for a graduation class might contain a few video clips and still pics
As pics of each student was displayed, the school music would be the sound track,

If you just got out of high school, you can also create a cool video
Icons below to share on facebook n twitter .

Safety Tips

Fairfield county 

In Ohio

When someone asked if Mt Pleasant was wheel chair accessible, I thought I will add this part.

Better than me telling you what a hike up Mt Pleasant is like, here is a youtube video I added to my play list 

In this video: a 6:45 in the video is the steepest part At 6:50 in the video you would NOT fo left but RIGHT ->

I met this guy who made this video  and added him to the facebook page this year.

 As for danger, going up the trail has no more danger than tipping over on the gravel, the height of the wheel chair. In the years I know about no one has been harmed by sitting on the edge. It is those who climb up the rocks that are harmed.. and thousands that climb only have a fun adventure n photos for show n tell 

 I do not know of any areas below the trail up Mt P that are not easy to get around.. 

Surface on top 

Staying back by the trees, it is just dirt. You can see it in the top left behind the girls

 

"Wheelchair accessible" means a place or vehicle has been designed or modified to allow someone using a wheelchair to enter and navigate it easily, By No means fits Mt p

The park now has allterian buggies that come up if needed.

Eaier than climbing Mount Everest. Depending on the desire to make it happen I suppose.

Luke rides his bike up the trail non stop. Me (now 81) in the last couple years I have to stop a couple times.. holding on my pup and camera stuff.

How many hmmm just a few I found on Mr Google Here

With some guys/girls from a gym, a church group, family members, of course it would be possible and a great memory.

You would have to plan a great, not a lot of rain, sky not overcast and the path you would take when you got there.

Mapping out Mt P areas

When people call in I hear the guys ask where at. I  dont have a phone with the internet but I think all new phones include gps in photos

Who ever calls in could simply send a pic of anything where they were standing.. guess u have means to read metadata (if it is included)

Google "my-maps" are free, I just did this one of the post for a map I am working on

Because of the trees on the edge of mt p, a drone set of pics above the rails and below them might be included

An early concept of Mount Pleasant grids, but gps might be better.

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After another kid fell from Mt Pleasant, I saw em promoting keep on the trail, don't go beyond the rail.

I must have taken a couple hundred pics of the chipmunks climbing or sitting on the edge.. the same has been repeated over a century,

Spending a lot of time thinking about Mount Pleasant Projects I experimented with "my maps". A free Google platform this is one of mine

Using phones or cameras with gps you can upload photos to a Google "my-map", click on it, a little image will appear and the gps position
Me n da dog has most of the top layed out, but there is a big area below to be mapped out. I am no kid and trying to hold onto my pup, a camera and walking on rocks is not easy.

Trying to think of an outdoor type of group.. 
The idea is for them to team up, being safe and climb around all sides of Mount Pleasant, capturing gps positions

You can add contributors to your maps also.

In the years I have been coming up to the top of Mount Pleasant, no one has been hurt, sitting on the edge with their feet hanging over or back from the edge. Those who get hurt are the ones who climb on the rocks.

Mount Pleasant is the one love that keeps me gone . I have pages on different topics.

If a group created a gps map and a safety instruction page, I would be glad to add it to our Rising Park web page.

There are hundreds of visitors that come for the first time. One idea is to place a sign with a QR code.. kind of a safety outline .

I bought a special gps/compass camera for this idea. It not only gives the gps position but also the compass heading the camera was pointed .. (a special use)

The camera adds the gps and compass heading on the lower right

Being by myself climbing around is not the best idea 😏 But it might be a great project for an outdoor group .

I am not sure how rope climbing would be put to work but one of the videos on Mt P

I went out one of the remaining nice days and had to tie the pup to a post. It wasn't easy to get to the spots and I doubt few people would watch long if it were composed of a bunch of rocks.

Being an old guy there a lot, I figure most r thinking I should be on the couch watching the tube or locked up in a nursing home 😋I know how many think

A better crew would could climb around the rocks and go places hard for me.. 
This month I shared my goofy adventures 

I had not been below Mt P for over 60 years. I ended up here

Lost getting late, I squirmed through a crack up to the top but couldn't pull the pup up and I got some kids to come rescue her. A few weeks later they came up and told me.. :)

If you have a crew that walks the trails below and might contribute to the gps map.. 
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