Log Cabins
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Took this shot in Longview, WA last year. I was actually back here today, dropping off an empty trailer at Keystone Paper. We haul large rolls of paper to companies that use it to make corrugated cardboard boxes. (8 rolls weight over 40,000 LBS, which is enough to fill our 53' trailers.) When trees are logged, places like this is where they start the process of becoming all the many things we use wood for.
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The driver taking forward the 12.44pm Carlisle Yard - Chirk Kronospan log train (6J37), waits patiently for the arriving driver to collect his belongings from the cab at Warrington's Bank Quay station. Colas unit 56105 is doing the honours.
An image not previously uploaded but one I thought deserved a run-out, not least for die-hard 'Grid' fans. This was one of the last railway shots I took with the part-frame EOS 7D before upgrading to the full-frame 5D, a move I've never regretted (it's still my main camera with no current plans to replace).
I had little luck processing this one at the time, but today's software has rendered it more than passable - technically if not artistically.
5.09pm, 21st November 2013
Built sometime around 1900 this log barn was used to shelter the horses that pull the stagecoach from Penticton to Princeton, British Columbia. This was the first stop after the stagecoach left Penticton and the passengers would stay in the hotel across the road. It took four days to travel the 120 km (75 miles) to Princeton. Today, the trip takes about an 1 hour 15 minutes.
Bluebells at Crabtree plantation Basingstoke. These are particularly tall the leaves now emerging on the trees they are fighting for light.
Captain's logs star date Sept 2022.- winding through route 99 and making another stop for eye popping scenery. No wonder the 7 hour trip took 13 hours.
Another way of seeing the countryside is using these log rafts. I think that the canoes were a little better though - rather more maneuverable through the rapids
I never paid much attention to this old log barn until now, but it stands out beautifully against the frosty trees. I wonder why it was built using vertical logs. Every year we have a few days when heavy fog freezes, creating beautiful frosty scenery.
In the Forest at the LEwis and Clark National Historic park there were many trees that had fallen and were in various stages of decay.
Another shot from Lost Maples SP... the tree fell at some point and has become a welcoming host for the moss growing here.
HDR processing for HSS
A Portland and Western train sits crewless on the siding at Linton, just a few miles west of Portland along the Columbia River. Behind the lead GP39-2 is a long cut of log flatcars.
Happy Bench Monday
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This is the first house ever built in Llano, Texas. I know you'll sleep better knowing that..;) The addition on the right must have been some time after the first part was built because of the planks. I couldn't find out any information on the addition. But I did find lots of info on the original owner. Here you go:
Heinrich Ludwig and Anna Katharina Schneider lived here. Things were not going so great in Germany at that time, and many German citizens were securing land grants and relocating their families to the Republic of Texas, which had been advertised as an “earthly paradise.” They left Germany under the supposed safety of a company formed in Germany called “The Society for the Protection of German Immigrants.” The hardships, despair, and deception during the years that followed could easily be made into a movie.
Mrs Ludwig died shortly after arriving in Texas in 1845, and Ludwig and his two young sons and daughter were among the first few German immigrants to settle in Llano County in the Fisher Miller Land Grant. They quickly learned that the “earthly paradise” they were expecting to find on the Llano River at Castell was certainly not as described. Although beautiful and appealing, the area was an untamed, undeveloped, isolated frontier wilderness inhabited by many dangerous American Indians. There was no protection available, no other settled areas anywhere nearby, and no transportation in or out of the grant. If all of that wasn’t bad enough, before they could even have logs to build a shelter, they had to clear the land using the primitive tools they had brought with them from Germany.
Ludwig was strong-willed and determined to provide shelter for his young children. A tattered old family writing says, “Winter came on before Ludwig could put the roof on the cabin so he covered it with sage grass and in the spring of 1847 he split post oak shingles and covered part of the roof to finish the house. He later roofed it with pecan shingles from the pecan trees on the river and they are still on the cabin today.” When Llano County was established in 1856, Ludwig was elected as Justice of the Peace in Castell. Ludwig and his sons went on to serve in the Texas Rangers and the Confederate army during the Civil War.
His two-room log cabin, the first known “home” built in Llano County, remains resting high on the bank overlooking the Llano River at Castell, still standing as a tribute to its courageous builder, Heinrich Ludwig Schneider, German pioneer of Llano County (1815 – 1897). There is an old cliché that says, “You can't know where you are going until you know where you have been.” Well, I now know the inspiring story and significance of the “Log Cabin on the Llano.” I know exactly how I came to be where I am, and I cherish my German heritage and the land of my ancestors that I inherited on the Llano River.
Not only do they have the great views in the Black Hills of South Dakota, but there are also some pretty spectacular homes.
This image is of a logging road near the town of Fernie, British Columbia, Canada.
I post his image as a homage to the power and majesty of raw nature. As I hiked this road, I was surrounded by old forest, some red cedars hundreds of years old. I carried bear spray, understanding to whom this land really belongs.
I felt alone and not. Being immersed in nature allowed me to "live in the moment." Worries and negative thoughts were banished. Peace and hope prevailed.
Male Tree Swallow ~ Lincoln Marsh ~ Wheaton, Illinois
Nikon Z6II, Nikkor Z 28-400, ISO 1600, f/8.0, 400mm, 1/400s
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In a champagne supernova in the sky
Someday, you will find me caught beneath the landslide
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