This part of PA boasts some of the best night sky viewing in the northeastern United States. Here is a 5 minute time exposure of one of the spiral arms of our own Galaxy - the Milky Way.

The camera, which was held perfectly steady on a tripod, picked up the movement of the stars caused by the rotation of the earth on it's axis.

Another view of the Milky Way.

This is a 200 mm telephoto shot of Polaris, which is the also called the north star because of it's close proximity to the north celestial pole. It's the only star in the sky that does not appear to move across the sky during the night.

Notice how all the other stars are moving around the North Star. Polaris is actually a trinary star system (a grouping of three stars) 431 light years from earth whose brightest star is a Cepheid variable, the closest such type of star to earth.

A local boy caught these trout from Pine Creek which also has smallmouth bass, walleyes and Rock bass.

An old camp just down the creek from Cedar Run.

This looks almost exactly like it did 100 years ago.

On the right is Cedar Run Inn and on the left, the Cedar Run General Store.

The Pine Creek Rail Trail follows the entire length of the Pine Creek Gorge making it an extremely popular spot for recreational bicyclists, especially families.

One of my previous pictures of the Cedar Run General Store made it onto the cover of a Frontier Brochure. Cedar Run became a part of our territory when the company recently purchased Commonwealth Telephone.

Allison sitting on the porch of the Cedar Run Inn

Night shot of the porch of the Cedar Run Inn

Shot in the moonlight

A night shot of Cedar Run

Our little room up on the third floor. Much of the furniture is original dating back to 1890. Not alot of modern amenities, but that just adds to it's charm.

This is a picture of the Pine Creek taking from the bridge over Slate Run.

Our new friend Keefer! Just a really friendly guy we struck up a conversation with.

We had to take the obligatory trip up to Hyner Mountain which has a spectacular view of another PA Grand Canyon of sorts, the Susqehanna River Valley.

On our way home, we came upon this interesting old bridge in English Center, PA

I've never seen a bridge of this particular construction

Built in 1891. Wow.