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[OC] The Seduction of Almost Rain. West of Sikort Chuapo, AZ. (1440 x 2160)

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Camping in the rough.

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No matter how deep nor how dark is the crack, the stars never go out. (Canyon Lands)

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My mother age 10, 1933, motherless at birth. She got polio age 3. My Granny made her live, made her walk. She went on to be a nurse, a missionary, learn 2 languages, feed/house up to 30 extra people, bear/raise 6 sons, run a ranch, help my father's businesses, etc. Heroes needn't carry guns.

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After drought, comes the sweet rain. {Sonoran Desert} [OC] (1620 x 1120)

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A New Year dawns on the Sonora. [OC] {2100x1192}

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Saskatchewan Pool elevator (hand colored) 794 x 1210 [OC]

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Mary Katherine Campbell, Miss America in both 1923 and 1924. The only woman to win twice.

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The very first Lego set I've ever built.

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Monsoon Coming - so long since the rain. (Deep in the Sonora) {1440 × 2160} [OC]

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Steam locomotives forgotten since the fall of the Soviet Union.

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All who wander are not lost.

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Up The Down Staircase

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[OC] It roared in from the SE lashing the desert with 2 of rain. After breaking, drowning, and giving water to a dry land, the spent monsoon followed the Sonoran sun. [1260 × 851]

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If it was 1950 and you were a wealthy New Yorker, you'd be in the Catskills beating the heat at this beautiful resort. Now? Even the taggers have given it up. (Nat Geo)

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We still be wandering about in OR - and still broke!

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This fire station is closed. Winslow AZ. [OC]

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Likely there has never been anyone cooler than JFK, 1,000' down the shaft of a coal mine talking with dirty miners while campaigning for president in 1960. Dig the suit, the skinny tie, and no helmet. We can argue about how good of a president he was, but no one since has been as slick.

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Chasing the rain. (AZ SR 86E MP 93) [OC]

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Autumn on Penn SR 212. (Duncan) No one is more impressionist than Nature herself.

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Patting a cop down.

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An image from the Anasazi. Circa 1100 CE. From the Red Caves SW of Canyonlands UT USA (1160 x 1119) [now labeled as American man]

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My grandmother in 1920. So cool to meet her at last.

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1 guy + 2 trucks+ 1 trailer = 1 idiot. (You mean 2 straps wont hold a 3 ton truck?)

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[OC] Looking west to Baboquivari Peak in the Tohono O'odham nation. S. Arizona. (1260 x 862)

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Chasing the Rain. AZ SR 86E MP 81 [OC]

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The Erasmus Bridge in the heart of Rotterdam, NL.

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It's 1951. Your chilling in your new suit. A slick Caddy and Grandad chauffeur waiting. The paparazzi are swarming. Will I ever be that cool again?

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Run aground and forgotten. CA north coast. (unknown)

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Empty. US 54 W, NM

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No matter how deep nor how dark is the crack, the stars never go out. (Canyon Lands) [OC]

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Boys get cool dirt bikes. Girls? Purple scooters.

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Built in 1943, the US Navy oil barge YOGN 42 was left to rot on the shoals off Shipwreck Beach Lanai, HI.

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10 way turn - the ultimate cloverleaf junction.

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🔥 Just your average 225 million year old tree. (Petrified Forest National Park, AZ USA)

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The Night Witches, Russia 1943. With old, noisy planes they'd strike engines and drift over the Germans dropping bombs. Then they fired up and got the Hell out of Dodge. Between them they flew 12,000+ sorties.

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'80s era Vanagon. Not my paint, but I put the Subaru engine in it. $ not the issue. Dare, work, and most of all learn are what makes life sweet. I had to learn a huge amount to get her rolling. But cash? ≈ $3.5k. Quiet, smooth easy. Only way to fly.

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A hand lettered and illustrated (on vellum) Bible. (864 x 670) Pre-1300. Source unknown.

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Dresden, GR

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Jerry lays back while Bobby takes the lead in an early 1980s Dead concert, site unknown because of 'long term loss of short term memory.'

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Never get in a tree's way because - given time - they can break a mountain.

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The last mechanical press in the state.

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Can't quite see the idiot, but there's no doubt that s/he is one.

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Sgt. Stubby: the most decorated dog in US Army history. (about 1917)

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The ranch is gone. The great-great grandfather built the main house in ≈1872. I'd gone back after 13 months on the River and several years wandering so I could be the 6th generation. This is what I found. (1972)

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A bit to dark for me...

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All who wander are not lost - the last hippie bus on the planet? [OC]

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The woman in the Wallyworld parking lot announcing, 'Jesus is my vaccine.'

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Can anyone ever be cooler than Sean Connery and his tabby? ≈1980

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The finest beer cooler and Bar-B-Que ever made.

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2017.04.15 Fire on the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris FR destroys tower, roof, etc. Blamed on workmen smoking or electrical short. 8 centuries of life, love, and lore gone. It will cost millions of € and up to 20 years to restore.

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The plains of Kansas.

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Along old US 160 in MO, there are many houses that have outlasted their builders. This stone cottage will probably live on long after we're gone. [OC]

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Carrots doing nasty things - in public.

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1980 Westphalia Vanagon. I didn't pick the color, but I did put the Subaru engine in it. An extraordinarily quiet, smooth, cool way to travel.

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Get off me!

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Extraordinary abstractions. The Caves of Lascaux I (780x492)

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Helen Keller meeting Charlie Chaplin. ≈1935?

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So who screwed up?

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When did LegoTM start making Bad Brown and how long did they take fixing it?

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