Big Bromo - Bigger Than Big Ben

Its clockface dial diameters are twenty four feet,  a foot wider than Big Ben in London. Meet Big Bromo, the Emerson Tower, built in Baltimore by Isaac Emerson, the inventor of Bromo Seltzer.

                             The clockwork gears and brass pendulum shaft going through the floor.

Terrapin Park, Kent Island, Maryland

Terrapin Park is a small wetlands, meadow and beach front park on the shore of Kent Island, directly across Chesapeake Bay from Sandy Point State Park. It is operated by Queen Anne County. There is a parking permit fee, and big fines for violation, but it is nice. The shot of the Bay Bridge was taken in the afternoon when a storm was on the western shore and moving across the bay. The other shots were taken in the early morning and are just a few examples of the wildlife I saw.

                                                  Bay Bridge, looking southwest..

                                     Horsehoe crabs spawning on the bay shoreline.

 

                                                                    Blue Heron

                  Deer in the meadow. We stared at each other for several minutes from about ten yards.