Random Object Photographs
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Went for another ride yesterday with a good friend and his granddaughter visiting from Oklahoma.
There's three crossings here and this was the second crossing. We got a lot of show this year
making some of the creek crossing a little more exciting than the past couple of years.
This was on the upper section of the Al Gay Trail. Things are really green this year.
Along this section of trail there was tons of Columbine blooming and it smells a lot like Honeysuckle. It was a small slice of Heaven.
We weren't expecting this at all.
So we turned around and headed back down.
Flowers are out in living color right now and here's two of my favorites.
The white one is a Sego Lily and the red one is Indian Paintbrush.
By an act of the Utah State Legislature, approved on March 18, 1911, the sego lily was declared to be the State floral emblem.
Kate C. Snow, President of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, in a letter dated April 17, 1930, says that "between 1840 and 1851"
food became very scarce in Utah due to a crop-devouring plague of crickets, and that "the families were put on rations, and
during this time they learned to dig for and to eat the soft, bulbous root of the sego lily. The memory of this use,
quite as much as the natural beauty of the flower, caused it to be selected in after years by the Legislature as the floral emblem of the State."
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While spending some relaxation time with my wife in the old copper mining town of Bisbee, Arizona in the winter, I was struck by this gathering of birds at sunset. I ran back to the Copper Queen hotel, where I had left my camera, and came rushing back to record the scene. Birds of feather do indeed flock together!
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1800s double stone arch bridge, Hillsboro, NH. Stone masons carefully cut each block to exacting size, with the top edges of the blocks being longer or more wide than the bottom edges, preventing the block from moving/falling once set in place. The entire bridge has no mortar to hold it together, just the force of gravity keeps this bridge from falling. It is a bit of a mystery how they built these bridges, without having them collapse during the construction process. Incredibly, you can still drive across this bridge with a car, today it is limited to 6 tons max and open 24/7. There are several other nearby examples of these mortarless, stone arch bridges in town.
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Sorry nothing really cool just a shot up the hill on my land after a day pf brush thinning.
I like it. Be really nice to make the same photo at sunrise and/or sunset.
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Vaguely resembles my prom date.
(The one on the left)
Vaguely resembles my prom date.
(The one on the left)
