Hyner View Self Portrait

I thought I would post something different and a bit artsy today...mostly because nothing really caught my eye today photographically speaking. This is a self-portrait (sounds better than "selfie", doesn't it?) that I took four years ago today on an outing to one of my favorite vistas, Hyner View State Park, near Renovo, PA. 
The scenic lookout contains a launching point for hang gliding and at this point you can see the West Branch of the Susquehanna River for many miles in each direction. 
The lookout area is bordered by a large stone wall that was built by the Civilian Conservation Corp during the Great Depression. It is this wall that is in the background here. There is a narrow little footpath that runs just in front and then a sharp drop off to the gorge below.
It was quite windy on this day and, I have to say, very exhilarating being up there at 1,940 feet. Overlooking the mountains and river below, it really is like being on top of the world. 
I am including a pic of the view and another of the above mentioned footpath that I shot during a May sunset visit in the "Extra Photos" section. The October view photo that I snapped was just too overexposed which seems to happen when you are up there on a sunny afternoon. Note to self: Try an early morning outing...it might work out better for you. :)

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.”
~ Henry David Thoreau