Random Object Photographs
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Tybee Island, GA
snowman
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Sure I can guess but I doubt I'll even be close.
Give it a try.
For sizing leather hats.
Cannonballs.
Found this out at the Webb museum in Savannah, GA.
They have militaria from the Revolutionary War up to the Gulf War.
Home - Webb Military Museum
bigwheelzip
Absent Comrade
A bit of levity from a modern take on walking the "dog".
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss5JcXeKUxc&t=12s[/ame]
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss5JcXeKUxc&t=12s[/ame]
Big Rock Candy Mountain, Marysvale Utah 1/6/2011
Purty! Don't look much like it's described in the song, though.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vTomEuuIZA[/ame]
Big Rock Candy Mountain, first recorded by Harry McClintock in 1928, is a folk music song about a hobo's idea of paradise, a modern version of the medieval concept of Cockaigne. It is a place where "hens lay soft boiled eggs" and there are "cigarette trees." McClintock claimed to have written the song in 1895, based on tales from his youth hoboing through the United States, but some believe that at least aspects of the song have existed for far longer....
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transit
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Well, it's officially springtime in Georgia. The Bradford Pear trees in my yard are in full bloom. Pretty, but stinky!
We have some up this way as well.
I had NO idea!
Grab your chainsaw and end this Bradford pear curse for good
Interest growing in reward for cutting down the Bradford pear tree | wltx.com
bigwheelzip
Absent Comrade
For her birthday, a friend decided to check skydiving off her bucket list. She loved it.
Well, to mangle Rudyard Kipling, "You're a braver Miss than I am, Gunga Din." A friend here did this for her 60th birthday and loved it. Better her than me, though. I also loved it, with both feet planted firmly on terra firma, thank you.
Big Rock Candy Mountain, Marysvale Utah
I took the winter picture from across the Sevier River.
Harry McClintock wrote the song and Burl Ives made it famous back in 1946.
The RR came into the canyon in 1896.
"Big Rock Candy Mountain, complex of carbonate hills, about 5,500 feet (1,675 metres) tall, on the edge of one segment of Fishlake National Forest, near Marysvale, south-central Utah, U.S. The striped dun- and rose-coloured hills were fancifully named by workers on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, one of whom, brakeman Harry McClintock, later composed a song by that title. The song—which features a hobo’s vision of the good life (“There’s a lake of stew and whiskey, too/ And you can paddle all around it in a big canoe”)—became popular throughout the United States in the late 1920s, and the area became a much-visited tourist destination. A small resort sits at the foot of the hills alongside the scenic Sevier River."
There in a mineral spring up the hill behind the café and it flows twice a year.
This was the old "mineral tub" that they diverted the spring water into and charged people to soak in it.
They also sold bottles of the mineral water to tourists.
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THE PILGRIM
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“Cause there ain’t no California, where the water tastes like wine
Ain’t no Big Rock Candy Mountain, where you feel good all the time
I ain’t found that old blue bayou, thou I roamed my whole life long
Searching for my blue heaven, heard somewhere it’s called home”
Mel Tillis
We can always stop at Maggie’s in Madrid for Meatloaf.
Ain’t no Big Rock Candy Mountain, where you feel good all the time
I ain’t found that old blue bayou, thou I roamed my whole life long
Searching for my blue heaven, heard somewhere it’s called home”
Mel Tillis
We can always stop at Maggie’s in Madrid for Meatloaf.
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Hopefully not from the tub after folks had soaked in it
Hopefully not from the tub after folks had soaked in it
LOL
There's an old pipe going into the basement of the original café where they filled the bottles.
Hence the "lemonade spring".
Well, that's their story and they're sticking with it
