"Every Picture Tells a Story ... Don't it:" Washington, NC on a Spring Sunday Afternoon | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's note: This post was originally published over 2 years ago, but with a slightly different format and with a different camera. It's a good post, and I can't change the lesser camera, so I thought that I might change the format, but use the same pictures. Oh well.

    Spring is my favorite time of the year, affording me the perfect opportunity to take a few pictures of this eastern North Carolina river city, Washington, as Winter transitions into Spring. Consequently, I often take some time to make a few images of the town that I consider my home base. This was my mission for about 1 1/2 hours on Sunday, April 3, 2011, just before the sun set. The best part of that 1 1/2 hours is what is known by photographers as the golden hour - the hour the sun sinks low upon the horizon casting golden light and long shadows.

    In 1 1/2 hours, how many stops can you make? Not many, so I hit just a couple of high spots: Oakdale Cemetery and along Washington's vaulted waterfront / nature walk.

    I began my time measuring the landscape and making its image under the guise of taking a walk. Mine and my wife's favorite two locations in Washington is Oakdale Cemetery and Washington's downtown waterfront. With my wife absent, as she was showing one of our rentals, I chose to begin with the City of Washington Cemetery.
I begin this Spring evening, one Sunday, in Oakdale Cemetery. The left side of my brain loves the many angles blending together with the low light: Above.     Photos by Stan Deatherage    Click image to enlarge.

    The three main reasons we enjoy this locale for walking is threefold: It is quiet, the hilly terrain, and its natural, and somewhat unnatural, beauty. We usually power-walk the paved and unpaved, often grassy, lanes amid the tombstones and monuments, often askew, and it just seems so peaceful.

    The Confederate-War-Dead-Monument sits upon one such slight knoll that populates the undulating terrain of Oakdale Cemetery.

I continue this Spring evening, that Sunday, in Oakdale Cemetery and we pay homage to our Confederate War dead: Above. As one can surmise, from these pictures, Oakdale Cemetery's terrain suggests that this is the perfect place to lay the town folk to rest: Below.     Photos by Stan Deatherage     Click image to enlarge.

The golden light of the last hour of the day is beginning to kick in on these two last pictures of loved ones' final resting place: Above and below.     Photos by Stan Deatherage    Click image to enlarge.

One last image of the golden light of the last hour of the day in the Oakdale Cemetery: Above. And then moments later the City of Washington Municipal Building is captured for posterity: Below.     Photos by Stan Deatherage    Click image to enlarge.

     Arguably the finest government based structure in all of Beaufort County is the Washington City Hall. At one time this building was built for and used by the United States Government. This building was once home to a federal court house and the U.S. Postal Service.

     This Neo-Greek Revival structure stands tall in what might be considered Washington's government complex. The Beaufort County Government buildings are nearby.
Just 3 blocks south and east is the North Carolina Estuarium, and the docks on the waterfront side of the museum: Above. Here two large turtles catch the last rays of the evening's retreating sun: Below.     Photos by Stan Deatherage    Click image to enlarge.

    Just east from the Estuarium is the nature walk in front of the old Moss Planing Mill property. There always seems to be animals in the midst, year round, when one takes that boardwalk.
This lone seagull looks toward the horizon, and the golden rays of the dying day: Above. The reflection of Moss Landing in the containment pond: Below.     Photos by Stan Deatherage    Click image to enlarge.


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