HIGH ON CHARLESTON: In the Clouds
Click to enlarge. Photo by Walker Deville
Once you get up way high (in this case, the top of the Carriage Trail near the old Sunrise Mansion) you finally achieve the proper perspective on the nest of hills in which Charleston, well… nestles. Being a blue-sky day, the aircraft pilots have left their tire tracks all over the atmosphere. By the way, if you click this photo, then click it again, it should be large enough to right-click and save to your desktop to use as a wallpaper image on your computer for exiled Charlestonians, longing for a view of Ye Olde Homestead.
May 11th, 2007 at 5:51 am
Excellent photo! Excellent series! Thanks.
May 11th, 2007 at 8:25 am
Thank you, Susan! A few more to come. And, by the way, I did test out this In the Clouds photo on my own Windows laptop as a wallpaper image and it worked fine. I do love the way West Virginia’s cities are ringed by green hills. WD
May 11th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Thanks for the pic,Walker. Thats the one I’ve been waiting for. Next time I get back to Charleytown, I think I’ll hike the Carriage Trail.This is my favorite view.Weren’t trespassing on someones lawn were You?
May 12th, 2007 at 7:57 am
Hey, festuswv (now, who WAS festus? I must Google that̷
No, not trespassing on some high-faulting lawyer’s lawn. But close, very close. This new Canon, though, has a swivel-out screen, so I can hold the camera way high in the air to frame a shot, which is what I did here. WD
May 28th, 2007 at 9:36 am
[…] The view from the very tippy-top of the Carriage Trail (camera held aloft on extended arms) looking down upon the Plains of Charleston. This would be the view if (to crib from that story in the Bible) from which the Devil would slap Jesus on the back and say, “Buddy, all this could be yours if you just give me props…” (That’s from the ‘Urban King James’ translation of the Holy Book̷
Here is an alternate, previously published view from this vantage point. […]