burke

Northern Virginia CAM

Hello, and welcome to my streaming video home on the Internet. This camera is located in Burke, Virginia, part of the urban sprawl just south of Washington, D.C. I'm a military contractor by profession, but in my free time, I perform volunteer work for the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club - both in the woods and online. You can learn more about the organization by pressing the home page button on this screen. I launched the site in January 1995, and turned it over to a new webmaster in January 2000. If you'd like to join in discussions with other outdoorspeople in our region and want to avoid the "rough and tumble" of USENET, then visit the interactive Trails Forum I manage on behalf of the club.

As you might have guessed from the small picture above, I also enjoy shooting landscape photography. Northern Virginia is rich in American history, and the gentle beauty of the Blue Ridge, Appalachian and Allegheny mountains provides tremendous opportunities for scenic pictures. If you click on the small picture above, it will take you directly to my online photo gallery, where you can enjoy many more pictures of our region. The mountains are only one hour to the west, and the ocean is three hours to the east, so we really have the best of both worlds in our region.

I apolgize for the rather mundane picture of me staring at my computer screen. I would much rather provide you with a picture of a beautiful landscape, but unfortunately my computer room window looks out on a residential parking lot, and my camera is not designed to operate in full sunlight. So you'll just have to survive looking at me staring stupidly into my computer screen. It's one of the things I'm good at. ;-)

As for the personals, I'm 43, single, never married. And for the guys out there who are pre-disposed, sorry, I'm not gay (I'm a breeder - keep looking, I know you'll find the right person someplace else.)

If you'd like to chat, please feel free to hit the ICQ button. I turn on ICQ whenever I activate the camera. Or if your interest is in the outdoors, pop into the Trails Forum for some lively discussions on the outdoors. Our Trails Forum is regional in nature, so discussion typically centers around the Appalachian Trail and what's going on in Shenandoah National Park and other areas in West Virginia, Maryland, and south-central Pennsylvania.