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[Tacotom]

Weedy garden. That's Isabel Lake just outside of town

 

[Sparky_D]

 

[Neb]

Another sunset

 

[rusty]

Our guard dog

 

[phideaux]

Jim

 

[Neb]

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Jim

Taillights and a hood ornament.

Nice

Ben

 

[rusty]

Badlands

 

[Weedygarden]

Badlands
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I don't know what all lives there, but I do know there are plenty of rattlesnakes. Rattlesnakes would likely be eating rodents.

 

[Aerindel]

Big mama tomatoes seem to be doing well (new variety for me)

 

[Haertig]

Those look wonderful. That's what our tomato plants always look like the day before the first freeze.

 

[Peanut]

Water spout at Gulf Shores AL a couple of weeks ago. Summer waterspouts are fairly common along the gulf coast, getting a good photo is more rare.

 

[Aerindel]

Those look wonderful. That's what our tomato plants always look like the day before the first freeze.

Until I built the hoophouse that was me too. Now I usually get them ripe...or close to ripe before the first freeze. I still usually have to ripen 20 lbs or so indoors but at least most of them get ripe in time. In theory I should still have 50-60 days before the usual first frost.

 

[Newbri]

I saw this flower at my neighbor's. No idea what it is but it's beautiful!

 

[Newbri]

I looked it up. It might be a type of orchid.

 

[Peanut]

At first glance I thought it might be an orchid also but I know very little about them (1000's of them). I checked a few images and your plant has that look.

 

[hiwall]

Looks like a Lady Slipper

 

[Newbri]

Looks like a Lady Slipper

I'd have to check again to see how it's grown.
But I did look up Lady Slippers. They're funny-looking

 

[GrannyG]

 

[Weedygarden]

If I were a consumer of alcohol and lived in Oregon, this would be an ale I would try. (not my photo)

 

[Weedygarden]

A mud slide in Glenwood Canyon has I-70 closed off. I believe they are saying the mudslide is the result of a former wildfire (maybe last year) and heavy rains this year. "thedenverchannel The governor plans to declare a state disaster and make a request for a federal disaster declaration after severe mudslides and flooding caused extensive damage to I-70 in Glenwood Canyon. Full story on www.TheDenverChannel.com."

Edit: I-70 is split into two different levels as you can see here, eastbound and westbound.

 

[Alaskajohn]

A picture from our camping trip last week. From this spot we could see 18 glaciers, bear, caribou, moose, fox, etc. And for a few days, not a single other human. The son did some goofy stuff with the color, which I wish he didn’t since you can’t improve on what nature does.

 

[Supervisor42]

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A picture from our camping trip last week. From this spot we could see 18 glaciers, bear, caribou, moose, fox, etc. And for a few days, not a single other human.

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...Soon to be one of the few places left on the planet where you don't have to wear a stupid-mask ☹.

 

[Alaskajohn]

When we came back from our camping trip, the wife went crazy taking pictures of the flowers around our property.

 

[Weedygarden]

Weedy garden. That's Isabel Lake just outside of town

We had a music teacher in school who had previously taught in Isabel. He was older but had a beautiful daughter who was my age. I think it was probably time for him to retire, but perhaps he couldn't afford to. I think he lasted one year as the music teacher.

 

[Weedygarden]

This photo is staged and taken somewhere around 1895-1899. Can anyone see what is wrong with this photo? I see at least three things. This is a 5 year old Sioux boy.

 

[Bacpacker]

Saddle for sure, Bridle too I would guess. Haven't found #3 yet
Great pic

 

[backlash]

Saddle for sure, Bridle too I would guess. Haven't found #3 yet
Great pic

That was my first thought. Then I figured if it was taken at that time period they obviously had saddles and bridles so maybe that's not wrong.
Why would a 5-year-old have a feather headdress like that?

 

[Weedygarden]

That was my first thought. Then I figured if it was taken at that time period they obviously had saddles and bridles so maybe that's not wrong.
Why would a 5-year-old have a feather headdress like that?

You are right about the headdress. Each feather is earned by some action. A five year old boy would not have a headdress like that, let alone maybe any feathers. There were many photos taken during this time period that were staged and the headdress was a commonly used costume piece. His shirt was also not Native. And yes, his saddle and bridle would not have been typical for Native Americans. They would have been riding bareback, or what I think was called Indian style.

His horse is small and may have been a Pinto. My grandfather bought a Pinto for his grandchildren to ride. He was named Scout. No one wanted to ride Scout, and if memory serves me correctly, it was because the horse was not cooperative.

 

[backlash]

So fake news was alive even way back then.

 

[Tacotom]

We had a music teacher in school who had previously taught in Isabel. He was older but had a beautiful daughter who was my age. I think it was probably time for him to retire, but perhaps he couldn't afford to. I think he lasted one year as the music teacher.

We no longer have a school in town. My kids graduated from McIntosh 40 miles North of here