For the first eleven days of September, Hubby and I drove from our home in Washington State to South Dakota and back. We went through the states of Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota and North Dakota. The State of Washington has a state-wide "mask mandate", requiring all open businesses to require all their customers …
Scenes from South Dakota
On September 1, my Hubby and I got into our car, and drove to South Dakota, for a Ricochet meetup with members from all over the US. Our drive took us through Eastern Washington, Northern Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota finally. It was an uneventful drive, and the scenery we saw was spectacular. We …
In the 1930s, they built a wall.
In the 1930s, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration sent crews to Theodore Roosevelt National Park, the Little Missouri National Grasslands portion, and set them to work building infrastructure. By the side of the North Dakota highway, there is a turnout with a viewpoint, and a low wall demarcating the …
Lens-Artists Challenge #114-Negative Space
As I understand it, Negative Space in a photograph is the space around the subject, not the subject. The Wide Open Spaces of Montana and North Dakota supplied some excellent subjects on our recent trip across country.They don't call Montana Big Sky Country for nothing.The white barn almost disappears in the Big Sky, under the …
Facebook Supports Antifa, the Destroyers
In violation of its own standards against so-called "hate groups", Facebook allows Rose City (Portland, OR) Antifa to recruit online, on its platform. You have, no doubt, seen all the news stories of the violent riots in Portland for the past 100+ days. Please read the linked article above, and then sever all ties you …
South Dakota Teaser
Here are a couple of things we saw on our trip to South Dakota. I am writing this from the car so cannot do much detail. Mammoth bones Seen all over South Dakota More later.
Dispatch from South Dakota
September 5, 2020. Weather report ‘nuff said.
Retirement. It’s bittersweet, for me.
Tomorrow, Monday, August 31, will be my last working day at my current job, which I have held for 12-2/3 years. That's the longest I have ever worked at any job in my entire working life. My original goal in life was to work forever, and never retire. Well, the Wuhan Coronavirus put an end …
Lens-Artists Challenge #112, Pick a Word
For this week, bloggers pick one or more of the following words, to illustrate with their photos. The words are: Growing, Crowded, Tangled, Exuberant, and Comfortable. I think I can find at least one photo that illustrates each word for the week. Let's start with Comfortable. People who are owned by a cat know that …
Damn You, Jay Inslee.
Another notch in your (well, I was going to say gun, but you abhor guns) billy-club. Congratulations, you have destroyed another small business in Washington State. Another livelihood ruined, lives put in jeopardy by your "Rule by Decree". We have to destroy it in order to save it. You're lucky that the Sheeple of Washington …
