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Found this scanned photo of some of my mother, four of my aunts, one uncle, and one cousin (I am guessing circa 1960).
Wayback Machine - 1951
Frank "Wilburn" Waters, a very dear friend of my parents, died last Sunday. It got me thinking about the enduring nature of friendships.
He went to high school with my mom, and became one of the closest friends my dad ever had. He and his wife traveled a lot with my folks over the years. Their son and I shared playpens together as infants.. and it was really nice to see him again this evening, despite the sad circumstances.
One of the things that moved me the most last year when my father died, was seeing Mr. Waters... very ill, and almost unable to walk himself... come through the door to say his goodbye to a lifelong friend. They had not seen each other much in the last years.. and the many adventures together had become memories rather than future plans.
But friendship endures. True friendship always does. And good and decent people are never forgotten.
John Mellencamp - Longest Days
It seems like once upon a time ago
I was where I was supposed to be
My vision was true and my heart was too
There was no end to what I could dream
I walked like a hero into the setting sun
And everyone called out my name
Death to me was just a mystery
Cause I was too busy raisin up Abel and Cain
But nothing lasts forever
Your best efforts don’t always pay
Sometimes you get sick
And you won’t get better
That’s when life is short
Even in its longest days"
#WaybackWednesday - Patty Dechow, Robert R. Dockson Professor of Business Administration & Professor of Accounting, giving a class lecture back in 2018. Photo/Chris Flynn
Wayback Machine - 1940s
Royal Gorge as seen from Point Lookout along US Highway 70.
Photo by Arthur Joe Hemphill
Point Lookout was a popular stopping point and overlook on old U.S. 70. It was founded in the 1920s and in its heyday featured an observation platform and a restaurant.
#WaybackWednesday - Oshawa Smith, Administrative Assistant in Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, checking over the week's schedule back in 2019.
Devils Tower Landscape Ladder
There are some contradictions in this image of the landscape leading up the the Devil’s Tower. Viewed from the northwest, this image has green fields with cut hay bales on top. This last fall of 2019 capture resulted from a very well rained on summer. Wet late in the high borderlands of MT/WY.. Captured in August, it ALL should be brown. The grass was a green as the spring in the sub-irrigated fields overlying the Fox Hill Sandstone aquifer . Usually the sub-surface geology controls the vegetation on the surface.
That 5112 foot tall Devil’s Tower National Monument is standing 1267 feet high above the surrounding ground. This country is big. The high ground looks pretty close but those mounds of phenolytic porphyry are pretty big. The Tower buried by thousands of feet of sediments, stands unsupported. Those rocks surrounding them and supporting the hard rock volcanic neck up thousands of feet higher than it is now.. The soft sediments were removed all by the action of the Little Missouri River plus the Belle Fourche River Drainage. Those two drainages providing the bulk of that work locally. The soft rock is removed while the harder material makes mountains. That’s pretty much the way it works all over the planet.
The Devils tower about 40 from my vantage point on the Pass to Rocky Point Wyoming on Trail Creek Road. I’m standing Campbell County Wyoming.
This is the view that tourists never see as they are all on the other side of those hills. You can see South Dakota from this site on a very clear day…completely across Crook County Wyoming. That is a BIG county 80 miles wide anyway.
Location: Bliss DInosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana border (Wyotana).
Title: Devils Tower Landscape Ladder