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There is a lot of history in the midlands for pottery and tile making. We are a short drive away from a tile museum that I’ve shot hundreds if images of recently, but this is a shot of a vintage roof tile plucked from our garden which I don’t think is manufactured locally.
I love the makers marks on pottery and tiles, the more rustic the better! Plenty of wildlife living in this stash of tiles, at least I know where all the large population of baby snails hatch in our garden now!
I did use my Laowa Ultra for a few shots but all I got was shots that looked like a Martian landscape!
An Abandoned fashion house in the Wastelands. No dreams were left....
Wearing:
Baiastice Danika Dress
Azoury Boohoo Hat - Brown & White
Slink Body
Ladies in Waiting Eyeshadow - Candlelight
Wastelands Acme Build (By Lunesta Matova) At:
The old way of the Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad at Acme, CA. A little worse from weather than when the railroad stopped running in 1940.
In Amargosa Canyon. the river is to the right. Several hiking trails converge here, thanks to the Amargosa Conservancy.
Happy Truck Thursday!
This good looking, classic 1960 red Ford was captured by my youngest son, an emergency room PA in the Legacy Hospital System. The truck is in great condition for a ~60 year old.
Judging by the boarded up picture window on the house, I think this is a daily driver.
can't help but picture wile e. coyote with springs strapped to his feet in a doomed attempt to bounce across some deep desert canyon...
dayton, ohio
woca
Fake Road Runner stripe on a crashed ’72 Satellite, at that junkyard in the desert. I was totally being stalked by some crazy feral guy in this normally abandoned junkyard who must have been performing midnight auto supply. He never got closer than about 100 yards away and howled at me like a (Wile E.) coyote as I finally slipped out the fence in the middle of the night. 100-seconds of full moon, lit with blue and yellow from the Protomachines flashlight.
BNSF M-EVESUM heads north for the border town of Sumas, WA through Acme, WA. Sadly, I didn’t see any wild chases involving a road runner & coyote here. 6-22-23
The Bottle Kilns at Acme Marls, Burslem.
Decided I'd try something a bit different for a change. If anyone knows of any other bottle kilns that are a bit less overgrown than these let me know!
This shot was taken almost as a test from the old car park, surrounded by broken pots and litter (mostly suitcases for some reason). I actually spent most of my time trying to get on the wall between the kilns, and the shot I eventually got of me there, wasn't as good as this one!
Can you spot the PG Tips mug fragment in the foreground?
With 5700' of train for Sumas, the M-EVESUM1-20T rocks and rolls northbound on jointed rail approaching the quaint valley hamlet of Acme, WA.
According to written local history, back in the day residents Thomas Stevens & Samuel Parks sent East for a couple of Acme hymnals, to be used to lead song in the local church, and were "joked for so doing". About 1887, Parks was sent to the Whatcom County seat of Bellingham with a petition for a new post office. However, due to an oversight no name was included in said petition. He asked if Acme would do and on receiving an affirmative answer that name was written into the records! This sleepy town of about 250 residents along the west bank of the South Fork Nooksack River still bears that name to this day, some 133 years later. I'd venture to say Samuel got in the last laugh!
Sandwiched between two forested mountain ranges, the fertile Nooksack River valley area has been home to a thriving farming scene for quite some time. While farming is still thriving these days, the once dominant dairy scene has slowly faded and a lucrative berry crop scene has emerged into the spotlight. Many smaller family-run dairy farms have been sold off to berry producers and former cattle pastures converted into acre upon acre of blueberry, strawberry, and raspberry fields. Other farms, like the one pictured, have simply fallen out of use as the national trend away from dairy continue and farmers simply can't make ends meet in that thin-margin business. But alas, the beautiful barns still stand proudly, dotted across the valley as a testament to what once was king.
The berry business is no doubt sitting in the throne now. In 2018, Whatcom County alone harvested 74.9 MILLION pounds of raspberries, accounting for somewhere around 85% of all raspberries produced in the United States.
While berries are big business up here, the railroad doesn't really see that business. Instead, the majority of the 88 cars on today's train will be delivered to a wide variety of local industries in the Sumas area, including a feed elevator, lumber mill, & trash loading facility. The remainder of the train will get interchanged to the Southern Railway of British Columbia (SRY) and taken north across the border to customers around Huntingdon and Abbotsford, British Columbia.
But for now, it's just a 4-pack of Geeps clickety-clacking through the town Samuel named after a hymnal.
BNSF 2532
BNSF 330
BNSF 2085
BNSF 3026