Michael I really appreciate the family pictures!Not a recent picture , but almost 30 years ago at my daughter's birthday while at a family reunion
Mike it is real interesting to see a piece of your heart after forty years.My trip to Eugene today became something of a trip down memory lane. I grew up there, moved away when I joined the USAF in 1974. After a nice visit with Mike Miller, I needed to ship a care package to @steur in Holland. The nearest post office was the original US Post Office of my youth. I had not been in there in 40 years! It was just the same, save for the prices of today. Across the street is the Oregon Electric Railway Station, built in 1912, it is now a restaurant and was owned by the famous runner of the U of O, Alberto Salazar. It is a fine restoration.
I also drove down 5th Street to the old house I grew up in. It was a huge old 3 story built in the 1920s. It is now a "boarding house" with multiple apartments... looks the same, only with added stairs to the upper level.
Beautiful scenery and hat! What an interesting area you must live in!Went up the creek a mile or two. No paddle, but did have a Stetson.
The natural hieroglyphics look like a boob to my 14-year-old brain...
That’s a Bald Eagle nest over my shoulder. Couldn’t capture a photo, but did see two adults and two juveniles on our way back.
Not sure of the origin of the feather so I returned it to the ground after the photo. There are Federal Laws against possession...
...and of resale of whatever was in this bottle (found on the long-abandoned road that followed the creek to what was rumored to be a Moonshine still next to the spring).
Where I live there are a lot of petroglyphs, usually in canyons. The best ones are in remote locations. There are many Pleistocene lake beds and the high shelves above them were locations to ancient encampments. Some of the artifacts are pre bow and arrow. Very interesting subject!
In looking for arrowheads I often canoe a river to get to spots where Native American villages once were. While they are not common I do see pictographs usually in locations where they can not easily be vandalized in modern times. It can be interesting trying to understand what they might mean.
I took a drive down to the little town of Waverly, AL (pop. 145) this past weekend to check out a music/art festival going on there. The graveyard in the last couple of photos had graves pre-dating the civil war. It was across the road from the festival site. The last picture is a piece of work titled "Stacy Adams Dog" by Tuskegee, AL artist James "Buddy" Snipes, who I met at the festival and purchased the art from.
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It was a cool gig, Cuz. The Old 280 Boogie, they call it. First time for me to try it out, but they've apparently been doing it for years, ever since that stretch of 280 got 4 laned and bypassed the little town.
Did you get a pic of the palm reader? I'd rather see her, & she's wearing a hat.
Me too! I can see just enough to want to see more........
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