I've been everywhere (in Pennsylvania)

It's a bit of a shock to the system to wake up in your tent one wet and chilly morning and realize that both the year and the field season are halfway over, and in four more weeks you have to go back to being a normal person. For the past few weeks I've been hopping from car to field house to tent, moving around Pennsylvania covering field sites for my summer job, and I've certainly gotten the early morning, birds-eye view of Penn's woods. (And more bear backsides than I've ever seen put together.) I don't have a lot of time to write, so that'll be something to catch up on later; but for now enjoy Anna's Mediocre Photography 2.0: The PA Tour, Part I. Expect Part II when I have consistent electricity and a place to wash my socks out.

a red-eyed vireo doing his best leaf impression

Pine Creek near Jersey Mills, PA.

A tree swallow checking up on the kids outside one of the field houses.

Most mornings you have to bushwhack through mountain laurel to get to a site, but sometimes--happy day!--you come across a road going exactly in the right direction.

I can't resist these little family plots tucked away in the woods. The final resting place of  this Civil War vet was all decked out for Memorial Day.

It may have poured rain the entire day the crew camped here, but Leonard Harrison State Park (the "Grand Canyon of PA") may take the prize for prettiest sightseeing (and nicest bathhouses).

After an evening thunderstorm at the PA Grand Canyon.

Historic coal tipple at the heritage park in Renovo, PA

View over the northern PA farmland. A long haul up that hill to get to this site.

My first-ever (state-endangered) Wood Turtle

He really didn't want to come out from behind that leaf. Why does every picture of an animal I take have a leaf in front of its face.

Aaaand it's not technically in Pennsylvania, but we couldn't pass up the Mecca of birding--Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Sapsucker Woods in Ithica, New York