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From some pictures I have been taking weekly at a local bog since Feb...the pathway through the bog is actually part of an old railroad corridor that has been turned into a snowmobile trail in winter, and a multi-use trail during the other 3 seasons (no ATVs)...amazing access to a habitat/landscape otherwise difficult to penetrate..."staring" in a sense at one place for a full year to see how my shots evolve. I make a simple triptych from each trip and am trying to build a set of pictures based around an entire year's worth of visits.

I have to admit that I took this one before Mark's Picture Window project, but it is also Close To Home, and I have been meaning to post it. This is one of the last snowfalls of the winter (March I think). The train car pictured is filled with rotting materials of some sort, and an old seat has been torn out and sits just behind it. I like finding remnants of the railroad sinking in the bog reclaiming it...found a dumping ground filled with old glass bottles/cans, train parts at varying points, stone supports of some sort along the corridor in spots, and this one train car.