Blue Licks State Resort Park

May 13, 2010 What's a Blue Lick? All that comes to mind is those square blue salt cubes we used to put out for the horses, so they'd lick the cube instead of chomping on the wood fence. We guess that's it.

Blue Licks State Resort Park. There's not much there. No blue cubes. Just trees, a narrow river and a "lodge" with a seven-day-a-week salad bar and no patrons. And "Primitive Camping" with full service sites? Hm.

Why did we stay there? So we could drive through horse farm country. We didn't expect a castle. Yep, a real castle. The farms were grand and immaculate, just as you'd expect with sprawling pastures, fancy white fences and barns that could be mansions.

And there's another pic of the bus because, well, there's just nothing else to show you of Blue Licks State Resort Park. You want quiet? You want no distractions, for miles? Blue Licks SP is for you.

-P

WOW! Moonbow!

December 2, 2009 (I think) When the dark fell down, Debbie, Jay and I ventured out with a nighttime picnic to Cumberland Falls State Park in Kentucky to see a natural anomaly, a moonbow! I'd never heard of such a thing.

"Known as the 'Niagara of the South', the 125-foot wide curtain of water is dramatic day or night. But it's only at night during a full moon that you can see the moonbow, a phenomenon not found anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere."

And there it is:

It looks like daytime because the three of us played with the exposure setting on my camera, using terminology and strategies we all learned from Lloyd, and captured the bow. With the naked eye the moonbow was a silvery arc in a wall of mist, but my Leica D-Lux 4 pulled out colour from the pitch black. That impressed us almost as much as the bow itself. :)

And if that wasn't enough marvelling for one night, we were later treated to a bold halo around the moon above the Faires house.

It was an extra special night of wonder...

-P

WOW! Moonbow!

December 2, 2009 (I think) When the dark fell down, Debbie, Jay and I ventured out with a nighttime picnic to Cumberland Falls State Park in Kentucky to see a natural anomaly, a moonbow! I'd never heard of such a thing.

"Known as the 'Niagara of the South', the 125-foot wide curtain of water is dramatic day or night. But it's only at night during a full moon that you can see the moonbow, a phenomenon not found anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere."

And there it is:

It looks like daytime because the three of us played with the exposure setting on my camera, using terminology and strategies we all learned from Lloyd, and captured the bow. With the naked eye the moonbow was a silvery arc in a wall of mist, but my Leica D-Lux 4 pulled out colour from the pitch black. That impressed us almost as much as the bow itself. :)

And if that wasn't enough marvelling for one night, we were later treated to a bold halo around the moon above the Faires house.

It was an extra special night of wonder...

-P