Musings

Here’s an image from today, a reminder of a vehicle shuffle that follows our return, a requirement for “emptying” our driveway.

This and the next image are carry-overs from our trip, both from the end of our excursion. (Over 6K miles. Exactly 14 states, and another perhaps 200 meters, and within eyesight.)

The teapot is the most contemplative…more than the ceiling reflection above. The teapot graces a flower garden, the whole well-protected from marauding, hungry deer.

Looking back through the trio, I see that circular elements predominate over linear, and none are colorful.

Purely circumstance; no planning on my part.

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Oblique sunlight this morning…highlighted some pleasures of being here…that have nothing to do with invasive critters, trees that may be ready to shed limbs (or worse), or other Facts_of_Life.

Not entirely sure why the window-glass fogged up; it was fine when I arose, and I sure wasn’t simmering a chicken or similar.

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I became focused on the cottonwoods today. Groups tended to indicate a home and cluster of ranch buildings.

Solos tended to be in grazing land…. [I am being kind; I probably shot fifty photos of cottonwoods today.]

Of course, the real ecological focus of this area is the river, here the North Platte. This is a LOT of water for mid-August. We heard that somewhere north and west of here they got 8″ in something like an hour the other day. In pockets, we have seen flooding in fields. It’s spotty, though—but everywhere seems especially green.

Hmmm. Not everywhere. We’ve been seeing blowouts since the Sandhills. When I worked there, people said the bison made some of them. Since the bison have been gone a good long while, I’m just not sure. This seems more like an eroded slope, however.

Wending among all of the above: coal trains. This is the famous Powder River coal that may keep you warm this winter. We usually count two engines in front (east end), and one pushing the train from the west end. The west-bound trains of empty cars are longer with usually two or three engines. Seems to me that the engine count in the Powder River Basin might become deficient.

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Art in a rest area.

USA flag on picket fence, Fort Hartsuff.

Industrial(?) hemp, gone wild(?).

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I slept in (as it happens), and we went for the urban exercise option instead of my usual dawn-time excursion (pant sweat sweat). This is a reflection. All of it. Strikingly clear.

This on a day when it went up to ONLY 89°F.

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Have you spotted the cat on the fence? Behind the right light-post? Stretched out like the owner of the property?

Cats!

No popup showers today, and the afternoon sunshine broke up coming through the stained-glass window that has only clear glass…but beveled panels….

UPDATE: umhem, yes, we did have a popup shower…I was distracted, and forgot when I was typing earlier…fact is, the rain-time was brief and we mostly had sunshine….

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It’s not that keys on this laptop have stopped working (as KW is dealing with), instead, this post is late due to…distraction? misapplied diligence? general slackness?

Had the photo from my wee-hours outing…so it’s not that.

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If yesterday was the great walking adventure (I ended up with 17K Fitbit steps), today was the great local/international/tech adventure—although such summations don’t capture how much FUN we have had since KW and GG arrived….

We also found many lovely patterns today, in contrast to yesterday’s singular images, and that is what I illustrate this day with….

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I found the hyacinths in a neighbor’s yard and am giving it to you for a pretty.

However, the more interesting image is the large dolly face-down by the fancy playhouse and the birdbath. I couldn’t decide if a child got called inside quickly, abandoning the dolly, or an adult created a still-life for passers-by headed to a nearby entrance to Piedmont Park. You decide.

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Over at the Bot Garden, we enjoyed the natural autumnal delights like the dried, spent plants, overlooking and ignoring the…uh-hem…fancy lights, which, let’s face it, don’t look good in daylight. We’ve heard they’re…stately?…after dark, but I’m not so sure I’d like them….

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