Maryland
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
When I reached Maryland, I was still in the mountains. This is ski country in the winter and with wonderful vistas in the summer. I traveled over several mountains, some at 2700-2800 feet high. (These are not the Rockies, folks, but very old mountains.) What amazed me was that the Eastern Continental Divide was only 2600 feet high where I crossed it.
The most beautiful mountain was the last one I crossed – Sideling Mountain at 1269 feet. Here engineers have blasted through the rock and I could see the layers of various colors as the mountain had been pushed upward thousands of years ago. What a treat for a landscape painter like me!