Random Object Photographs

[loknload]

Watchdog, yes it is... MID-ATLANTIC AIR MUSEUM - THE WIDOWS WEB - P-61 - THE RESTORATION
You can see the whole story here, I may be going out to visit it tomorrow.
They have a big WWII weekend coming up in the beginning of June.

 

[snubbyfan]

I like this with the conchos a lot. Are you getting any conchos from Buffalo Brothers?

The conchos were sent to me by the fellow I made the belt and knife sheath for.
I generally order conchos from Tandy.

 

[Watchdog]

Watchdog, yes it is... MID-ATLANTIC AIR MUSEUM - THE WIDOWS WEB - P-61 - THE RESTORATION
You can see the whole story here, I may be going out to visit it tomorrow.
They have a big WWII weekend coming up in the beginning of June.

Wow. What an airplane! Just wow. What wouldn't I give to go up in one of those! Their photo history and photo chronology of the ongoing restoration is nothing short of incredible! I will be spending more time looking at it for sure. Thanks so much for posting the link!

And there are some financial donors to the project with some very deep pockets, aren't there?

 

[les.b]

Loknload:

What an incredible project. Truly, we learn things every day that we had absolutely no knowledge of yesterday. Thanks so much for posting this amazing story.

Best Regards, Les

 

[loknload]

Watchdog,,,

And there are some financial donors to the project with some very deep pockets, aren't there?

Yes there are and I believe the president of the organization along with his father has some money as well. They have been into this sort of thing for a long long time. Plus they raise a lot of money with their WWII weekend.
I used to go out there for that the first few years after they started it, but now you can’t even get near the place anymore. They even take the show into the downtown area with a American/German fight re-enactment, Of course the Germans always lose!
One year my wife paid for me to get a ride in their Stearman trainer, the president of the group was my pilot. It was a great ride. Sometime though I do want to go out and catch a ride on one of the B-17’s that show up. I should have done it years ago when it was cheaper and the place wasn’t so crowded!
I think if I rememenber correctly there are only 3 Black Widows surviving and this will be the only one able to fly. I’ve been somewhat obsessed with this one since they bought it back from the mountain!

Oh yeah, almost forgot...your welcome!

 

[loknload]

Watchdog, the trainset you received for Christmas in 1956 is marked Reading Lines.
The real Reading Railroad yards still exist near here yet today, their shops did produce their own locomotives.
One of the last steam series....

Here are the shops as they stand today....

Some of the old equipment still remains in these buildings, local plumbing supply leases them and I’ve been through them....

 

[Bullseye 2620]

 

[OFT II]

How fast was he going when he hit that turkey?

 

[JH1951]

For those of you interested in scales....
This remains in the old Evangelical Press building in Harrisburg PA., after a very tastefully done restoration and re-purposing of the building. I remember weighing myself on this scale as a kid many times.
Judging from the reading, I must have had my 1911 Govt. with me that day.

 

[JH1951]

A modern Dog Soldier!

 

[Bullseye 2620]

How fast was he going when he hit that turkey?

They're red-tailed hawk feathers, bro.

 

[Watchdog]

They're red-tailed hawk feathers, bro.

That's excellent colour work in your photo.

 

[Watchdog]

Looking Out My Front Door - Winter, 2015

One of my trees bows to Nature and takes on a different type of beauty.

 

[Bullseye 2620]

Tell Me What You See

All of the hard red clay in the world (pipestone, or, catlinite) from which sacred pipes (peace pipes to most of you) are carved comes from one quarry in Pipestone, Minnesota. The site has been worked for at least 1,000 years by members of many tribes.

Even today, only handtools -- predominantly sledges and pry bars -- are permitted in the quarrying of the stone which lies in a seam beneath 18 feet of quartzite overburden.

Back in 2003, I think it was, I was visiting the Pipestone National Monument and was invited to accompany one of the Dakotah quarriers into his pit and make some photographs of him at work.

Quarrying the stone is regarded as a sacred act and so, the quarrier will pray and smudge himself with sage smoke before he begins his work.

The quarrier had just finished the ceremony when I looked to the north and saw this:

Tell me what you see.

 

[Watchdog]

The quarrier had just finished the ceremony when I looked to the north and saw this:

Tell me what you see.

Wow. How cool is that? A bird, of course. Can't tell if it's a raptor...but it's there, plain as day. Possibly a somewhat stylized raven, since the raven figures heavily in Native American folklore.

Sometimes things just sort of coalesce and you get to make a shot you'll never make again.

 

[Bullseye 2620]

Wow. How cool is that? A bird, of course. Can't tell if it's a raptor...but it's there, plain as day. Possibly a somewhat stylized raven, since the raven figures heavily in Native American folklore.

Sometimes things just sort of coalesce and you get to make a shot you'll never make again.

I showed this photograph to an old Sioux medicine man and he pronounced it "Makpiya Kanji ("Crow Cloud")." I myself see an eagle's head.

 

[snubbyfan]

All of the hard red clay in the world (pipestone, or, catlinite) from which sacred pipes (peace pipes to most of you) are carved comes from one quarry in Pipestone, Minnesota. The site has been worked for at least 1,000 years by members of many tribes.

Even today, only handtools -- predominantly sledges and pry bars -- are permitted in the quarrying of the stone which lies in a seam beneath 18 feet of quartzite overburden.

Back in 2003, I think it was, I was visiting the Pipestone National Monument and was invited to accompany one of the Dakotah quarriers into his pit and make some photographs of him at work.

Quarrying the stone is regarded as a sacred act and so, the quarrier will pray and smudge himself with sage smoke before he begins his work.

The quarrier had just finished the ceremony when I looked to the north and saw this:

Tell me what you see.

It's the Raven watching over sacred ground.

 

[opaul]

 

[snubbyfan]

 

[Redbert31]

Very cool

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