Morning Leaves

A fall morning on the New River in West Virginia. The bridge in the image is the longest arch bridge in the western hemisphere. It was completed in 1977 and reduced the drive from one side of the river to the other to less than a minute from the 40 minutes it had been before. If we had been here a day earlier when they were celebrating "Bridge Day" to commemorate the anniversary of the bridge, we would have seen people BASE jumping and rappelling off the bridge. "BASE" stands for Building, Antenna (tower), Span (arch or bridge), and Earth (cliff or natural formation), the four categories of objects in which BASE jumpers jump from. Photo by Steve Coyle Photography (www.stevecoylephotography.com)

Fall Float

Rafting on the New River in West Virginia during the fall can be a colorful event if you time it right as these rafters did. Photo by Steve Coyle Photography (www.stevecoylephotography.com)

Mills Turn

I have had the Glade Creek Grist Mill in Babcock State Park on the list of structures I've wanted to photograph for a while. I put togethe a jigsaw puzzle of it when I was a boy. Even then, it was an old jigsaw puzzle my grandmother had, so it gives you an idea of how old this structure is. You have to go to West Virginia to see it and we were lucky enough to be there when the leaves were turning. We have been fortunate enough these past couple of years to be in really nice parts of the country to see fall colors. This image will have to find it's way to a wall in our home. Who knows, maybe I'll have a jigsaw puzzle made of it for us and others to enjoy. Photo by Steve Coyle Photography (www.stevecoylephotography.com)

Cathedral Falls

We passed this waterfall as we drove through West Virginia on our way to Kentucky. I'm guessing this waterfall might have more flow earlier in the year, but it was still a nice roadside diversion with a small parking lot. Never know what you'll find on the side of the road. Photo by Steve Coyle Photography (www.stevecoylephotography.com)