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Helicopter bucketing wildfires near Burton, B.C. during the extremely dry August of 2003. The Ingersol Fire on the hillside in the background, burned close to 6700 ha. of crown and private land on the west side of Lower Arrow Lake.
Continuing my documentation of our summer camping trip, here are exterior photos of the Sumpter Valley Dredge. Interior photos will follow soon. The dredge used 72 one-ton buckets to scoop rock and gravel from the bottom of the Powder River in Oregon. Inside, the rock was separated by size in steel cylinders, until the smallest particles were washed in sluices to extract the gold.
There were sunflowers placed everywhere for us to enjoy while we visited. Some were in beautiful containers, others in pails like this or even red plastic buckets. So beautiful!
Went to The Garden Conservancy - Open Days at Cherry Lane Farm in Marengo IL. It is a 73 acre farm that uses solar energy and a wind turbine for most of the energy used to run this farm that flourishes without the use of commercial fertilizers or pesticides.
We look dimly at the past trying to imagine living in a different time and a different place.
The ghost of Bodie, California was a bustling gold mining town in 1879 with a population of about 10,000 and was second to none for wickedness badmen, and “the worst climate out of doors.” One little girl, whose family was taking her to the remote and infamous town wrote in her diary: “Goodbye God, I’m going to Bodie.” Perhaps this same girl used this well as she looked out on this place. I hope she found it to be a wishing well and found all her dreams.
The Missile and Space Gallery at the National Museum of the United States Air Force (www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/).
From the website:
The Discoverer XIV is the first satellite to be ejected from an orbiting space vehicle and to be recovered in midair. Discoverer XIV was launched into a polar (north-south) orbit by a Thor booster from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Aug. 18, 1960. After the Thor exhausted its fuel, the Agena A vehicle atop the Thor separated from it. The Agena's engine then ignited, increasing the satellite's top speed to 17,658 mph, thereby achieving an orbit of 116 miles above the earth at the low point (perigee) and 502 miles at the high point (apogee).
Over Alaska on the 17th pass around the earth, the Agena ejected Discoverer XIV from its nose and retrorockets attached to the re-entry vehicle fired to slow it for the return from orbit. After Discoverer XIV reentered the atmosphere, it released a parachute and floated earthward. The descending parachute was sighted 360 miles southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii, by the crew of a USAF C-119 recovery aircraft from the 6593rd Test Squadron based at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. On the C-119's third pass over the parachute, the recovery gear trailing behind the aircraft successfully snagged the parachute canopy. A winch operator aboard the C-119 then reeled in the Discoverer XIV after its 27-hour 450,000-mile journey through space.
To elaborate on the "bucket" in this picture, this is from Wikipedia's article on "Corona (satellite)":
The plan for the Corona program was for its satellites to return canisters of exposed film to the Earth in re-entry capsules, called by the slang term "buckets", which were to be recovered in mid-air by a specially-equipped USAF planes during their parachute descent. (The buckets were designed to float on the water for a short period of time for possible recovery by U.S. Navy ships, and then to sink if the recovery failed. This was for secrecy purposes.)
well, um, sort of :)
I thought it looked like a bit like a constellation in there ...
PS : see how it's getting darker already ?!
Dredge Buckets by Tina Pfeiffer. Gold Dredge, Sumpter, Oregon, June 2007.
Our travels took us to the eastern side of Oregon to explore the ghost towns of the gold rush days! At the height of the gold rush, Sumpter was a thriving community known as the Queen City that sat atop "the mother lode" of ore. Today the dredge has been preserved as a historical site and is being restored by private funding for tourists to visit in the spring and summer months.
Please view the other images in this series!
The colors in this shot turned out better than I expected. Looks like a pile of abandoned paint buckets and what looks like a bbq grill. The lighting does a lot for this one.
The Bucket Busters raise music scholarship money for kids who can't afford lessons. Arroyo Grande Strawberry Festival, Arroyo Grande, CA.
Premiere performance of Fish Wives by Gemma Marmalade at the Ceri Hand Gallery Summer Fete. London. Saturday 17 August 2013