Monday, May 31, 2021

Find the Moth


 


 

More Dodge Madness

 




Thanks, Dennis!

The Bedwells delivered mail from Nevada City to Alleghany for years. After Sam retired his daughter Sue took over. They actually did favors for people on their route, which I'm sure today would be verboten by the postal service.

 


Allegheny is an old mining town way back in the hills.  Love this image.  And, it's a Dodge Mr. Bedwell was driving!

Thanks, Elmo!

Charles C. Ebbets taking a photo of Ironworkers lunching and smoking 840 feet above Manhattan, 1932.

 


Rainbow Wrasse caught off Christmas Island

 

Cow Number 7

 


Entrance to Disneyland in 1965, when parking cost 25 cents

 


Apprently owls have a pair of ridiculous skinny legs under their fluff

 


Keep that hatchet sharp

 




Sunday, May 30, 2021

Dodge Madness

 


Thanks, Randy

Amateur

 


Faroe Islands

 



I'm betting those are real ivory handles

 


Nice Double Bitted Axe Hanging From The Belt, There.

 


Winning!

 


Me Today

 


Reykjavik Volcano Geyser, Lava 1100 Feet In The Air - Terrific Sound. What a worrisome view from Downtown Reykjavik.

People Of The Sápmi - Northern Norway. Hard Life People.



Your Morning Volcano From Iceland | 4K Time-lapse

Saturday, May 29, 2021

Took a drive up I-5 past Shasta, and into the western mountains.


From near the micro sized town of Gazelle, you could look south east and see Shasta and Black Butte, from across a fine field of green.  You can see the top of the Whitney Glacier, the longest one in California.  It flows down from the top right between Shasta and Shastina, about six miles long.


From Gazelle to Callahan, it's through the mountains on a two lane road, tee-ing off with Highway 3.  Callahan is a bit on the run down side, but the emporium is open.


An abandoned doorway in an abandoned building.  Probably pretty creepy at 3am.



On up Highway 3 to Etna.  Population down about 40 from the 2010 census.  Used to work with someone whose grandmother lived there, at the corner of Diggles Street and Pig Alley


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Parked the orange car on the corner of Diggles and Main, and went in to this place to get something to eat.  Very fancy, and they couldn't seat the two of us without a reservation.   Unbelievable.

We ended up across the street at a much more local place that sat us right down and then produced an epic reuben sandwich that I could barely finish.  


It seems the local deer herd just wanders through town whenever they want.  These landed on the grass outside the local elementary school.  The passage of the rumbly orange car bothered them not a whit.


On the way back we took the orange car up through Fort Jones and out east to Yreka, where we caught I-5 back to Redding.  I'd been through Fort Jones once before, about thirty years ago, on my way to the Marbles for a backpacking trip.  Hadn't changed all that much.

A much younger and fitter CW deep in the Marble Mountains.




Traffic southbound on I-5 was unbelievably light -- almost eerie.  There was a little more northbound, but  not that much more.  Finally picked up more normal traffic at that bridge over Lake Shasta, which must have been folks that had spent the day at the lake and were heading back to town.

The next two days are predicted to be really hot, and Mrs. CW has to work, so I'll be laying low, but today's little jaunt was fun




Heh, yeah

 


Nice

 


Not your run of the mill work cubicle

 


I'd like to hear the explanation of how that happened


 

A hummingbird that looks like a jalapeño

 


Yes

 


Too big of a load

 


Bridging the creek


 

I might need one of these

 



50,000 year old cave lion cub found sorta preserved in permafrost

 


Living the grandpa life