ABC Wednesday: U is for Up

I had lunch at the Daily Planet Cafe in Raleigh, NC and kept thinking if I looked up I would see Superman take off.

After lunch, my friend held up the planet.

If you look up near the top of the next shot and spot the white streak you may be asking: Is it a bird, Is it a plane or is it Superman. I vote for superman.

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ABC Wednesday: U is for Under

Instead of following our usual route and walking around the lake on Sunday, we walked under the bridge and took an alternate walk.

When walking in Raleigh, NC where I live there are a lot of options.

Whenever I write about our greenway trail system I have to up the mileage as they keep adding to it.

For this post I looked it up and was surprised that we are up to 61 miles of trails.

That figure seemed high so I looked on the city site for the official map and saw the greenway system is in fact up to 117 miles of connected trails.

Some of the trails are paved, some are dirt, many follow creeks and come to lakes. I think part of what recently added so much mileage is the completion of 20 miles of trails linking northeast Raleigh with Johnston County that follow the Neuse River. Also, the difference in figures may be that some only include the portion within Raleigh city limits where others include the connected trails that go outside the city limits but are part of the same system. We didn't try to walk a 100 plus miles but did a U turn and headed home. Click for the home of ABC Wednesday.

ABC Wednesday: U is for Upside down

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ABC Wednesday: U is for Under

Under the road is a tunnel so walkers, cyclist and runners don't have to leave the trail to continue on with the next trail.

The pipes below are going under ground.

The reflections give an upside down view.

Standing under a different road at another part of the trail, and looking through to the creek, gives an unusual perspective.

The next shot is in part of the underneath area shown above, and I'm using a shot that doesn't show all the UGLY words.

Next is another shot of the same area shown in the two shots above which show there are two separate underneath areas.

Under the bridge at the point below is another part of the paved trail.

Standing under the bridge in the same area I looked up for the next shot. Note- I went to my photo archives which is why most of the trees are bare. If I was shooting in the same spot now it would be a lot greener.

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ABC Wednesday: U is for Umbrella

A couple of years ago when we were visiting Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, there were a lot of people under umbrellas during the reenactments.

The soldiers were toughing it without umbrellas but the spectators were under their umbrellas.

I found the next two shots in my photo archives too with a different kind of umbrella.

These umbrellas give people shade while eating.

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ABC Wednesday: Under

Whenever I ride in a car going through an underground tunnel, I am reminded of thrillers involving high speed chases in tunnels.

I am glad we didn't undergo a high speed chase while underneath the road in this tunnel.

Going under the mountains to visit a mine is unusual for me.

I enjoyed it but was relieved we didn't use up all the oxygen available in the dank air.

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ABC Wednesday: U is for under

My city has a system of trails called the Capital Area Greenway, so named because we are the Capital of North Carolina.

You can walk on close to 30 miles of connected trails which take you under roads and through tunnels at times. The greenway system connects parks and woodland trails along creeks and under roads in some cases.

Sometimes the trail is on a bridge going under a bridge.

While walking under the bridge above I photographed a reflection showing the bridge upside down.

I also looked up at the blue sky above the bridge I was getting ready to walk under.

It's possible to get unusual effects when photographing the tunnel underground.

I often stop and take photographs of the underground tunnels at different times of the year.

I have so many tunnel shots it was hard to decide on the ones to use.

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