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This is a building in Galata, Montana. It is almost a complete ghost town. There really are no more businesses open. Only a few homes are still lived in. This town has an interesting history and there are so many abandoned buildings that I would love to know the story behind.
Here is a video from when I drove through this great ghost town:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0R55_f-ndA
"Galata, east of Shelby, is near Willow Creek, one of the streams that flows into the reservoir created by Tiber Dam. It was a trading point and cattle shipping station on the Great Northern’s High Line. In 1901 David R. McGinnis, first immigration agent of the Great Northern Railroad, was so impressed by the beauty of the spot that he filed a claim for the land near the railroad where it crossed dry Galata Creek. McGinnis hired a surveyor to lay out a town and the following year brought carpenters and lumber from Kalispell to build a two-room house.
Cattlemen from the Marias River ranges brought their cattle to Galata for shipment to eastern markets. On cold winter days they were glad to have the protection of the two little rooms in the only building in “town.” The house burned down in 1904, but in 1905 McGinnis began rebuilding Galata. He built a two-room real estate office and an eight-room hotel, and eventually induced a storekeeper to set up shop in one of the rooms of the real estate office. Ranches would drive in with a chuckwagon and load up on $500—sometimes even $1,000—worth of supplies, pay in cash and return home for the long winter. After a few years, Galata’s only merchant closed shop and the hotel was abandoned; McGinnis gave up his dream of a town and moved to Kalispell.
One day he was surprised to receive a check in the mail. It was marked “back rent,” and was from a cowhand who had moved into the deserted Galata store and had done a good business with dryland farmers who were then settling on the old-time open range. By 1910 Galata had four lumberyards and five store. (from Cheney’s Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company)
Near Galata, residents and visitors can enjoy one of the most versatile recreational areas in Montana, Tiber Dam-Lake Elwell. The lake provides excellent year-round angling for Walleye, Northern and Sauger Pike, native trout, Ling, Perch and others. Some may want to try their hand at bow fishing for carp that often exceed 20 pounds. For boaters and swimmers the area boasts over 50 miles of shoreline, a marina, and four well-maintained boat ramps located strategically around the lake. There are also numerous campground areas.
While you're at Tiber you'll observe spectacular windblown sandstone formations, Indian rings, and one of the largest earthen dikes in the world! The area surrounding Tiber contains excellent hunting, and a unique birdwatching area is located along the Marias River below Tiber Dam." -Montana's Russell Country Website
This is a great article, just scroll town to the one titled “Caught between two worlds, one dead, the other struggling to be born.”
www.montanaheritageproject.org/index.php/fieldnotes/C77/
This is a link to a neat photo taken near Galata many, many years ago:
Factory Point Cemetery
www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/fieldnotes/the-manchester-v... History of the Manchester Vampire.
Happy Halloween
Factory Point Cemetery
www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/fieldnotes/the-manchester-v... History of the Manchester Vampire.
Happy Halloween
Factory Point Cemetery
www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/fieldnotes/the-manchester-v... History of the Manchester Vampire.
Happy Halloween
Returning sockeye salmon packed gill-to-gill in the viewing windows at the Ballard Locks fish ladder. Five times more sockeye have come through the fish ladder this year -- as compared to the same time period last year: Sockeye Ballet is the Best Show in Town (Seattle Times, June 26, 2012)
Shot at 18mm • 1/160 • f5.6 • ISO2000 • Handheld/IS On. PP in Lightroom.
[Adjustments: sharpness, levels, contrast, shadows/highlights]
Factory Point Cemetery
www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/fieldnotes/the-manchester-v... History of the Manchester Vampire.
Happy Halloween
This is the Samsung Galaxy S, one of my first touchscreen phones. Doing what I do, it's bit surprising that my Project365 doesn't have more "technology" shots. Visiting museums and such, I'm finding that technology is one of those things that really allows us to date items. It's only in the last few years that touchscreen phones became popular, before that the sliders and flip phones were the norm and even earlier than that the giant Motorola bricks were common. A cell phone shot just had to be a part of my 365 of 2013/2014. A good benefit of touchscreen technology coupled with Internet access and fairly large local storage is that it's a very handy with-me-all-the-time photographer field notes book.
These are a few of many broken down buildings sitting in a cluster behind the main street through the ghost town of Galata, Montana. They are so strange because there is no real road or trail leading through them, they are all just sitting in a cluster. Wonder what they all were?
This is Galata, Montana. It is almost a complete ghost town. There really are no more businesses open. Only a few homes are still lived in. This town has an interesting history and there are so many abandoned buildings that I would love to know the story behind.
Here is a video from when I drove through this great ghost town:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0R55_f-ndA
"Galata, east of Shelby, is near Willow Creek, one of the streams that flows into the reservoir created by Tiber Dam. It was a trading point and cattle shipping station on the Great Northern’s High Line. In 1901 David R. McGinnis, first immigration agent of the Great Northern Railroad, was so impressed by the beauty of the spot that he filed a claim for the land near the railroad where it crossed dry Galata Creek. McGinnis hired a surveyor to lay out a town and the following year brought carpenters and lumber from Kalispell to build a two-room house.
Cattlemen from the Marias River ranges brought their cattle to Galata for shipment to eastern markets. On cold winter days they were glad to have the protection of the two little rooms in the only building in “town.” The house burned down in 1904, but in 1905 McGinnis began rebuilding Galata. He built a two-room real estate office and an eight-room hotel, and eventually induced a storekeeper to set up shop in one of the rooms of the real estate office. Ranches would drive in with a chuckwagon and load up on $500—sometimes even $1,000—worth of supplies, pay in cash and return home for the long winter. After a few years, Galata’s only merchant closed shop and the hotel was abandoned; McGinnis gave up his dream of a town and moved to Kalispell.
One day he was surprised to receive a check in the mail. It was marked “back rent,” and was from a cowhand who had moved into the deserted Galata store and had done a good business with dryland farmers who were then settling on the old-time open range. By 1910 Galata had four lumberyards and five store. (from Cheney’s Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company)
Near Galata, residents and visitors can enjoy one of the most versatile recreational areas in Montana, Tiber Dam-Lake Elwell. The lake provides excellent year-round angling for Walleye, Northern and Sauger Pike, native trout, Ling, Perch and others. Some may want to try their hand at bow fishing for carp that often exceed 20 pounds. For boaters and swimmers the area boasts over 50 miles of shoreline, a marina, and four well-maintained boat ramps located strategically around the lake. There are also numerous campground areas.
While you're at Tiber you'll observe spectacular windblown sandstone formations, Indian rings, and one of the largest earthen dikes in the world! The area surrounding Tiber contains excellent hunting, and a unique birdwatching area is located along the Marias River below Tiber Dam." -Montana's Russell Country Website
This is a great article, just scroll town to the one titled “Caught between two worlds, one dead, the other struggling to be born.”
www.montanaheritageproject.org/index.php/fieldnotes/C77/
This is a link to a neat photo taken near Galata many, many years ago:
Factory Point Cemetery
www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/fieldnotes/the-manchester-v... History of the Manchester Vampire.
Happy Halloween
Field Notes, in a box from a former toy (which was replaced when a CFL bulb spilled on it). I don't mind a littler mercury myself.
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Thought I'd make a suitably bright cover for my FN Unexposed books! Orange foam inner, and lime green duck tape outer!
$3.49. Lacquer-free renewable cal-cedar wood casing, recyclable aluminum ferrule, enviro-green degradable eraser and certified non-toxic imprint inks.(From Field Notes Website)
used here
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view pushing the baby walker - _MG_6233 on a black background.
Field Notes Dream Journal with Leather Vest
My pile of Field Notes laid dormant for a while because they tend to bleed with my fountain pen or roller balls. On a surprising turn of events (meeting Tsuchihashi san and his idea note), I realized I hadn't been jotting down my dreams for a long while and started to look for a handy reliable notebook to do so all over again.
The trigger was a week ago when my Dad passed away. I was expecting to see him at least in my dreams on the 7th day of his passing, realizing that I had to write down every single word I would hear from him, I frantically picked up Field Notes and pondering how I would attach a pen onto it for quick access.
There it was, a few hours of measuring and hammering, I made a leather vest from ~1mm thin leather (Australian Gold) attaching to Field Notes' cover and holds a wooden ball pen from Japan I love.
So by the 7th night of his passing, I had this fully equipped, following me all the time. Did he came into my dreams? No. But he did tell a love story I will never forget from his small moves.
I guess the insight was "life is what happens when you are busying making other plans". No regret trying.
You can plan so much and things are not happening the way you expected, but the cool thing to realize is that, things would always turn out to be more beautiful, that is, only had you acted.
The leather vest I made was just the right size to allow me rolling the Field Notes in half for compact storage in jackets. The proportion even allows me to use it on a typical thicker (and dull) Moleskine in pocket size.
I encourage you to make one yourself, you should be proud of what you can do and carry inspirations (idea notes) and dreams in your pocket. Fear not losing the notes coz that's only the physical record of what you've already gotten.
Today, I brought my kid out to Cheung Chau island for a leisure cycling, feeling contented my vest and FN, along side with my inspirations and dreams were with me.
More on Scription blog: scription.typepad.com/blog/2013/02/field-notes-dream-jour...
Even prettier in person. Seen here with my 10-year-old Space Pen, a General's Kimberlin 9xxB and my favorite brass sharpener. www.pragmatik.org/blog