I'm liking this new category! Sort of like a visual journal entry. Well, I accomplished something big time! I cleaned out the junk storage / office space to create more space for the office and purchased shelving for an organized storage space. Big difference! So a few pictures are pictures I found scattered all over the junk storage part of the room.
I found an old whiteboard so I taped a bunch of random pictures that I found during the cleanup. This is only the bottom half of the board - the top half has a lot of cute family pictures.
One of our past doggies - Chewy. Very loving dog.
Dad tuning the mandolin. A little bit of Max Hunter history behind the mandolin.
I think this was 1998 Christmas vacation when we went to visit Smith Center and Thornburg. The last time I've been to either place. This is on the old school grounds across the street from the church.
And now to some other random pictures not from the cleanup!
Birger Sandzen painted a lot of pictures from his in-laws land in Graham County near Bogue.
"Creek at Moonrise", "Creek at Twilight", "Pasture Creek" were some of the painting titles inspired by Sandzen's view of Wild Horse Creek. I snipped this picture with the labels Wild Horse Creek and South Fork Solomon visible for context. I bought a print reproduction of one of his Wild Horse Creek paintings.
One of the many rejected pictures for my passport application. That's a whole other story filled with frustration, the better business bureau, and more. Maybe I tell it someday.
What I see each morning when I open my office door at work.
In a new hoodie from G - very comfortable cloth. And my mama's painting in the background.
I bought this at the bookstore located at the Grand Canyon National Park. I was not aware of the number of tribal nations that called the Canyon home.
Occasionally I check to see if Google Maps has updated the view of the old farmstead. It was updated. Look at all of those trails behind where the old barn stood.
I don't know what's going on in Rooks and Smith but wow a lot of mapped earthquakes in both counties from the Kansas Geological Association.
I found this beautiful picture of Standing Stone State Park located north of Cookeville, TN.
February had a lot of sky watching events. One was the parade of planets where 7 planets were visible in the night sky (top picture). Venus remained visible for many days in February (bottom picture).
Occasionally I get a feed of railroad or train enthusiasts on Facebook. On Facebook, the picture was angled where it looked like the train was curving around this house. I hunted it down on the Internet. The tracks are like right at the back door! This is in Tell City, Indiana.
I have several bookmarked emails about Trail City, an encampment right on the Kansas - Colorado line. Kansas at the time imposed a strict regulation about cattle being driven across Kansas land so a guy got smart and trailed the cattle in Colorado alongside the state line. Trail City emerged as a railroad stopping place consisting mostly of dugouts and a few buildings. It was said that there were more brothels and saloons than places of business in Trail City. The nearest Kansas town is Coolidge, which has a Trail City bed and breakfast. Trail City itself only lasted a couple of years and almost all signs of its existence are gone.
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