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If this mower belonged to Coffin. it suggests that this was a cattle operation, maybe even a dairying operation. Just like our new governorial candidate, Bob Beauprez, Both culprits lived at the trough of humanity. Beauprez built his fortune on the public's milk price supports and now wants to get the 47%ers off the public dole. RIGHT! Do you see any snakes in this picture?
Just north of the Coffin barn (background) and wagon wheel was this fertilizer spreader of some vintage. It seems they were everywhere around the valley. The fertilizer sreaders have been converted to sheet metal long since but I thought that I would give you a shot at the complexity of this very old horse-drawn one. It is among the implements collected along the fence south of the old original Coffin sandstone house. I managed to capture a crisp shot with the monopod. I usually make another snap at the slow speeds like in the window, if I am not confident. I set my record for slow speed shots on this day. I shot extras for safety. Anyway I suppose there are some who are interested.
Coffin joined Chivington and participate in the Sand Creek Massacre, an event that some silt heads defend to this day. He was determined to eliminate the Indian threat if not the tribes themselves. I wonder how he would stand on the illegal immigration and if he would put up bronze bilingual plaques on his old barn. Eddie here is praising Chivington, he created his own tribute, in a his own fashion! We need such tributes to Bob (I got mine) Beauprez. Colorado already has struggled its way out from the mire created by Ronnie 666, Boy George and the Pee-rublican 1%er idiots and should not slide back now.
The farm/ranch/museum was the eastern terminus of the St.Vrain Greenway Trail, on state highway #119 at Sandstone Park. Unfortunately, the floods scrubbed the south side of the pedestrian bridge, left above the iron wheel, over the river. and the path at Sunset Street so the trail is no longer continuous from the Vance Brand Airport, past Golden Ponds to the east end of town. For a while anyway. It will eventually be repaired but Longmont and Boulder County are self-insured so it will happen when it happens. On the up side, Wall Street doesn't make a dime on this setback. I created a Photo Set for the Coffin Farm/Ranch Agricultural Park.
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Sandstone Falls. This was my very last shot from a magnificent day of waterfall hunting in the New River Gorge area.
New River Gorge, West Virginia. (Sep 1, 2012)
The red sandstone cliffs of Fleswick have a surprising amount of greenery as the water trickles down the rock.
Later in the morning, ICE 6406 South heads across the Kettle River with a Sunday version of CP 482 which runs between the Twin Ports and the Twin Cities. ICE 6406 and CP 6055 are the power for this manifest near Sandstone, MN on BNSF's Hinckley Sub. Early fall colors are showing in the valley here on Sept. 29, 2013.
Battleship Rock
Natural Bridge State Resort Park
Slade, Kentucky
I have hiked every trail at Natural Bridge State Resort Park. Unfortunately, many of them were hiked before I ever got into photography. After a recent visit, I have decided I'm going to have to hike them all again. The lighting was too terrible for any good shots of the arch itself, or anything else for that matter. I had remembered an interesting section of cliffline that I thought might need my camera's attention, but when I got there the midday sun made a good shot impossible. So after the obligatory visit to the overlook and Lover's Leap, I began my journey back down toward the parking lot. Before I headed down, though, I hiked a bit out the Battleship rock trail. That is when I discovered a section of sandstone swirls in the shade that really caught my eye. Methinks it would behoove me to hike all the trails again. Who knows what gems I might find such as this.
wind eaten sandstone. possibly caused by eddies formed by irregularities in the surface and density selectively eating out the stone, and reinforcing the patterns of erosion.
Leafless Plants, Sandstone. Capitol Reef National Park, Utah. October 26, 2012. © Copyright 2017 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
A few nearly leafless plants grow in a sandstone canyon, Capitol Reef National Park
I made this photograph in a place that is not unknown to Capitol Reef National Park visitors, but which few visit. To get to this lovely little canyon requires a very long drive on a gravel road, and then at least a little bit of research or perhaps a conversation with the right park employee. I was with friends who knew about it, and I probably would not have found it without them.
There are beautiful red rock canyons all over southern Utah, and some are quite well-known — sometimes perhaps known a bit too well. Fortunately there are so many that by poking around in the right corners you can find plenty of lonely yet quite lovely little canyons like this one. We began with a hike across some flat country and then soon entered the mouth of the canyon, which almost immediately became somewhat narrow. It wasn't a long hike as before long we reached a blockage that we could not really pass. But along the way the beautiful light reflected down from above, bouncing off the red canyon walls, and casting a warm glow down below. Here the scenery was almost entirely of the ubiquitous red rock, broken by a few small plants that were almost leafless by this time in autumn.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, "California's Fall Color: A Photographer's Guide to Autumn in the Sierra" is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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On this site in 1895, Western scout and showman William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody laid out the original townsite of Cody, Wyoming, which was named in his honor. Today Old Trail Town preserves the lifestyle and history of the Frontier West through a rare collection of authentic structures and furnishings. From remote locations in Wyoming and Montana these historic buildings were carefully disassembled, moved and reassembled here at Old Trail Town by Western historian Bob Edgar and friends.
The buildings date from 1879 to 1901 and represent the history of Northwestern Wyoming. Included in the collection are original cabins used by Old West outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; a Wyoming saloon frequented by Cassidy's "Hole-in-the-Wall Gang", as well as the the log cabin home of "Curley" a Crow Indian army scout who helped guide Lt Col. George A. Custer and the U.S. 7th Cavalry to the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. Currently the collection includes 26 historic buildings, a graveyard and many wagons and other artifacts. Old Trail Town exists today as a memorial to the uniquely American experience known throughout the world as "the Old West".
Info from: www.oldtrailtown.org/
Sandstone rock formations in the desert of Wadi Rum, Jordan.
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SAR class NG6 no 106 at Grootdraai on the Sandstone Estates private railway during the Sandstone Heritage Trust's first open weekend in July 2001. The loco was painted dark green so I had a bit of fun and painted it black in PS.
There were 3 locos in steam for the event, that number has catapulted ten fold since.
Free State, South Africa
Inside an old church in Culross pronounced coorus I came upon these thronelike seats and it looked like the middle seat and the person upon it would finally pronounce the judgement.
cliffs behind the elephant hide, below of Mackeys peak.
Halls Gap to the Pinnacle Loop 9km hike.
Grampians National Park, Victoria, Australia.
Geology:
The sediments, which make up the Grampians, were deposited about 400 million years ago (Devonian period) and are approximately 3700 m deep. They are composed of layers of massive sandstones, siltstones and mudstones which were folded and tilted a few millions years later.
Have a look at satellite map of this place - amazing.
Taken walking down from Beeston Castle to the Shropshire Union canal near the end of our walk. A few minutes later, the heavens opened and icy rain fell upon us!
The sandstone on Gabriola Island has provided the quarried stone for many buildings in past years.
The main rocks exposed on Gabriola's surface are sandstone and shale. Differential erosion of relatively soft shales and relatively hard sandstones helped create cliffs, points, and bays along Gabriola's shoreline. Gabriola and surrounding islands have more than 70 known petroglyphs - sandstone carvings, some of which may be as old as 2,000 years or more.
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In 2008, Geoff's Trains visited Sandstone for a three day charter. One morning session was with two NGG16 Garratts, numbers 113 and 153,
Huge boulders strewn amid shale hills beneath a towering sandstone mesa in Glen Canyon National Recreational Area near Lake Powell Utah.
Milwaukee Road 261 blasts across the high trestle near Sandstone, MN
Taken the 10th of October, 2015, on the BNSF Hinckley Sub.
A close, ultra-wide view of the front of St Mary of the Presentation Catholic Church in Mudgee, during twilight on our first night there.
Normally I am reluctant to deliberately introduce perspective distortion into my architectural images, but occasionally it is fun to break the 'rules' and have a bit of over-the-top fun with quirky angles.
Sandstone coasters absorb a surprising amount of water and slowly release it.
Taken for Flickr's Our Daily Challenge: STONE OR ROCK
i put a lot of effort into this, probably more than it's worth considering it's nothing crazy-special, but it's been probably close to 30hrs of effort (without including driving time), 4 different unique localities visited, and this is pretty much EXACTLY what i imagined when i dreamed it up... some time ago i saw someone put up a photo of a C. pyrrhus on sandstone in NV, USA, thought "hey, that's kinda unique" (C. pyrrhus are lithophiles but seemingly strongly prefer granite and other metamorphic rock) and immediately i knew i had to find a place to do that in CA. scouted literature for sandstone formations, looked into where they crop out, spent a lot of time figuring out accessibility, and then spent a decent amount of effort in-habitat looking. finally, i proved it out. this animal was posted up on a rock made of carbonate-cemented sandstone (seen in image), in an area with a lot of (almost exclusively) that, red and tan sedimentary sandstones, mud hills, and sandstone fossil deposits. pretty unique looking for a SoCal pyrrhus considering the lack of gray base color or black speckling. pretty confident it was not just coincidence either because less than 400m away was another pyrrhus that looked similar, just more red, but 10km away in the same mountain range i've seen 1 that looked more typically-SoCal. it's a sandstone-colored speck, through and true. i still have high hopes for finding disjunct populations of sandstone-colored C. pyrrhus in 3 other spots in both CA border Cos, and just on sandstone in 1 more, but this one settled it; NV got nothing on us.
sandstone speck, seen on Kumeyaay and Kwapa land.
Is it just me (probably!) or can anyone else see the rocks forming a large animal normally seen "in the mist"?
One of a set of images taken by Geoff Cooke when he hosted the Geoff's Trains group at the Stars of Sandstone Festival in April 2019. Copyright Geoff Cooke. Please do not use without permission.
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