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Way Back Machine - October 1966
Somewhere, Canada... near Toronto
Photo by Wilma Blankenship
I need to start a set just for the photos that mom and dad took when they were on the road together... their travelogue, so to speak.
When I was much younger and had too high of an opinion of myself, I thought that these were kind of silly... posed and simple as they were.
But now, they are so endearing to me. They were a team... on the road together, seeing the country and building memories. The photos that they took of each other in these different places are a record of lives shared.... and it shows even through the lens how strong their connection was.
Today, rather than thinking they are silly... I am sad that I was not there with them.
Way Back Machine - June, 1972
Coastal North Carolina
Photo by Wilma Blankenship
Truthfully, this one shot might just tell you everything you need to know about Dave...
Veiled Sunset Rattlesnake Ridge
One of my favorite antiques on the ranch is this 1920’s-1930’s Deering Seeder sitting on the toe of a high ridge. The Cretaceous Sandstones capping/covering this isolated plateau of Sage and Spanish Dagger are these hard layers and lenses of hardened sand. This hard sand/rock was cemented harder than the sandstone taken away by erosion around it. Harder due to differences in the “Diagenetic” processes that turned loose plastic sand to rock. Notice I didn’t say magic processes. Good google word for today… It’s the reason the ridge is there… Hard rock protects the softer sandstone below…
The hard cap rock this scene is built over was laid down by just one act of a 3 million year long stage show. At the End of the Reign of the Dinosaurs on the coastal slope (piedmont really) toward the Cretaceous Era “Inland Sea” Sea sediments are 900 feet down here. Above them, the Beach Sand above that marine sediment. That is named Fox Hill Formation. From the old beach is where we get our water. Above that (below me) is another 700 feet of River Sand (Hell Creek/Lance Formations) that many ancient rivers carried lazily here.
I say many because these watersheds with rivers miles wide.. (think anastomosing braided channels of dendritic sand choked channels on a massive scale. Similar to the amazon water shed. This was the last stage for the dinosaurs to live out their last moments. The coast was extant from Canada to northern New Mexico. All along the coast of that land a mere 66 million years before present.
There were untold millions of high water/flood events in the history of this land. Mountains long gone to our west fed vast quantities of sand worn from them by wind water and ice. Our Ranch lies on 14 mile wide strip of Hell Creek/Lance formation exposed on the surface. This exposed due to streams and rivers moving thousands of feet of sediment that used to be above us away. Cutting into these old beds at a slight angle. Youngest rocks west with Older to the east.
Then somebody came along and “dumped this 100 (ish) year old farm implement here giving me a subject in this remote environment. What are the chances lolol.
In my world, the past is the key to the present and the future. Integral within our processes of the present exists hand me down learning from the past. Geological process occur without our being aware of them or not. My point is understanding the past helps predict the future as well as interpreting the present.
Oh, My LED lightbar on “Clever Girl” added some flavor to this freshly rained upon dynamic sunset through a storm in the deep backcountry.
Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands (Wyotana)
Title: Veiled Sunset Rattlesnake Ridge
Way Back Machine - 1965
Photo by Frank & Glo Mair Photographers.
Dad's Gulf station was among the top sellers of Purolator products in 1965. This distinction earned mom and dad an all expense paid vacation to Jamaica.
#WaybackWednesday - back to early in the pandemic, when Dr. Janet Greenwood (R) and Kelley Cardenas, RN, worked the medical evaluation tents at Keck Hospital of USC. Photo/Richard Carrasco III
Wayback Machine - 1950s
Lake James, North Carolina
Photo by Wilma Blankenship
My folks enjoyed spending time at Lake James with friends on the weekends during the season. They took a lot of photos while they were there. A lot.
Through the summer this year, I plan on posting most of them. Memorial Day is coming... get ready for good times!
Wayback Machine - 1960s
Photo by Wilma Blankenship
Taken from the front steps of my grandparent's house... looking out at my grandpa's garage and what was then U.S. Highway 70.
I found two photos of my parents from 1951 and they were both standing by a tree. Thought it would make a good diptych.
Way Back Machine - September 1959
Photo by Melvin Lance
I found this photo in some of my great-uncle Melvin's stuff that my mom gave to me. It includes a few photos from his time in the Pacific during WWII... but mostly happier images of life in post-war America.
Like this one... I am not sure where it was taken, but he had many vacation photos from this place. It must have been a favorite getaway spot... and I can see why.
way back wednesday #1
I was recently given the task of scanning all these old photos of my grandparents and thought some of them would be fun here.
The one with the gun is my grandpa. The other one was, um, dinner.
This is all Don's fault.
#WaybackWednesday - to when most of us enjoyed working in our offices, as did Kegan Allee-Moawad, Associate Director of Student Civil Rights, Conduct and Compliance for the Title IX office.
#WaybackWednesday - Kate Tegmeyer, Fellowship Coordinator for the Graduate School, catching up on emails (serious and otherwise!) from students from the comfort of her office back in 2019.
#WayBackWednesday Giant Isopods for Valentine's Day. Over two dozen of these giant #isopods were captured, including two juveniles less than 10 cm long. go.usa.gov/xn6Ex @noaaoceanexploration #GulfofMexico #deepsea #biology #UniversityofOregon #NSF #OregonSeaGrant
Photo: A Bathynomus giganteus removed from a trap. Over two dozen of these giant isopods were captured, including two juveniles less than 10 cm long. The students studied these creatures' blood proteins, stable isotopes and epibionts.
Photo Credit: NOAA Ocean Explorer
Rural Transit 10345 Hino RK 1J bus bound for Pagadian City from Dipolog City.
In this picture circa late 2010, this is one of the three buses were in convoy loaded with HS and Elementary students to an educational event in Pagadian City, was almost fell on the cliff whilst stucked.
A YouTube video was taken that year. Link: youtube.com/watch?v=zomA2f2_6Ws
Although this was the bus model in Dipolog-Pagadian, it is currently deploying FB4J units as 106xx series.
Wayback Machine - 1940s
Mount Mitchell State Park, NC
Photo by Bobby Ritchie
My grandmother tells mom's boyfriend not to take her picture. He took it anyway....
Probably why he didn't make it, while my dad did. Oh, well.. too bad for him.
He did know how to photograph shadows, though..
My mom is the one on top of the rock.