Friday, June 5, 2015

Cold day on the Black Sea


BLACK SEA (Jan. 7, 2015) The guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) transits the Black Sea. Donald Cook was conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of responsibility in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Karolina A. Oseguera)

Great catch by the bear

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Freckles are good


Very mysterious as well

Red Wing - Crow


Swimming hole of dreams

Or at least the dog thinks so.


Custom freak


Old and new


Good stuff



That wascally wabbit!!


1967 Jeep Pickup - fantastic!


Wild Bill Hickock original grave


Colorado Charlie Utter (at right) and Arapaho Joe add a headstone to Wild Bill Hickok’s Deadwood grave in 1877. Two years later, under Utter’s supervision, Hickok was reinterred at Mount Moriah Cemetery where his grave mates became Calamity Jane, in 1903, and Potato Creek Johnny, in 1943. –Courtesy Deadwood Public Library


But did the airbag deploy?


A learner driver in Germany had a narrow escape on Monday when her car was crushed by a British tank.
The 18-year-old driver made the mistake of turning into a column of British tanks that were travelling through the small town of Augustdorf.
The British soldier at the controls of the tank behind her had no time to stop, but managed to turn so that he crushed the engine of the car, just avoiding the driver.

Raining in the high country right now.




People escaping ISIS reach the Kurdish Zone, and immediately peel away the evil black clothing those barbarians require that they wear.



Fear the Deer—Nature's Unstoppable Killing Machines

A girl about to get gored by her soul sister.


Bucks duel each other for territory and mating privileges. These fights can go to extraordinary lengths. White-tailed deer bucks have been found in dead pairs, their antlers tangled and locked so tightly they couldn't extricate themselves. They died of thirst or stress. The truculence of deer can go further than that. I know of one case in which a buck was found with the decapitated head of another locked in its antlers. Biologists posited that the living buck picked a fight with an already dead rival and tore his head off.
This truculence transfers easily to humans. In 2005, for example, a man was tending the tomatoes in his backyard near Rancho Santa Fe, California, when a deer appeared. It gored him in the face and head. Bending over to pick tomatoes probably looked to the deer like a fighting stance. In 2006, a seven-point white-tailed buck attacked an elderly man in Pennsylvania, butting and goring him in the head. When his wife came to his defense, she, too, was attacked. The violence stopped only when police shot the buck to death.
Deer kept on farms and in zoos and wildlife parks have also injured people and even fatally gored their keepers. In 1997, in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, a man who kept reindeer as part of his Santa Claus act was attacked by a 550 pound bull in heat. When the bull tried to gore him, the man latched on to its 31-point rack of antlers. The reindeer carried the man – who weight 370 pounds – in the air for forty-five minutes. Eventually it pinned him to the ground. Five other men tried to pull the buck off. When they finally succeeded, the buck fell dead from its exertions. The owner was not seriously hurt.
A personal anecdote:  when my mom was a kid, they had a pet deer.  It tended to bully family members, and it's hooves were sharp and dangerous, and it knew how to use them.  They eventually had to kill and eat it, it was simply too unpredictable.