View allAll Photos Tagged backroad_visions
Another backroad vision, with thanks to Robert Frost for the title....
“Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day,
Nothing gold can stay.”
Another angle on the old Quinn truck on River Road(route 67) near Follets,IA. She's a beauty,well worth a walk thru 3" of water to get too.Maybe a good zoom lens would work also? LOL
Have a great truck Thursday all.We're preparing for another week of rain and storms here in the Midwest that will put us even farther behind in spring planting!
#brvvip #ipulledoverforthis #mercantile #colorado #architecture #trb_rural #style_and_decay #decayofthelower48 #renegade_community #backroad_visions #trb_rurex #renegade_rural #raw_country_ #diamonds_of_urbex #americanruralmag #historicpreservationgroup #westernarchitecture #colorado #rockymountainscolorado
The Great Blue Heron when standing knee-deep in murky water hunting for careless fish can often appear almost like caricature of a pre-historic creature. It has curves where no bird should curve and long, bony knees that look like hollow straws with claws at one end.
But when they are airborne they take on another dimension, one of grace and if caught in good light, a surprising amount of color.
In our area, I have never seen a heron winter over but bird experts say some do in the far southern parts of our state or where there are open waters such as around power plants or on parts of the Mississippi River that are ice-free.
Herons are well-known for their ability to pause in place, sometimes for minutes, before striking with lightning speed to capture the object of their hunt.
Though best known as great fishers, they do add other things to their diet. During their summers here in Minnesota they can eat snakes, frog, insects, small mammals and even small ducklings. Gophers and voles also have to be very wary around herons.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
This beaver appeared to have Detective Peter Falk’s trademark phrase on the show Columbo down "Just one more thing" as he was about to bid my wife and I farewell earlier this week.
As we rounded a wooded area surrounding a hobby farm, we drove along the shoreline of a large wetland pond. As I slowly drove, I noticed this fellow about 15 yards away swimming parallel to our vehicle and keeping a steady, though beady, eye on us.
But his curiosity got the better of him and after about 30 yards of swimming next to the road, he climbed out of the water and sloshed up on the road where we had parked enabling me to take a few shots.
I might have heard an urgent cry from somewhere in our vehicle when I was exhorted to shut the window, bringing about a retort that I knew somebody who had watched too many Walt Disney programs years ago when animals like beavers could fly.
The beaver came within about 6-8 feet of our vehicle, probably the closest I will ever be to a beaver in my lifetime although that is not a stretch of the imagination anymore in view of my age.
It helps to be an old codger to remember the TV show Columbo as it surfaced way back in 1968 and for a time captured a healthy audience across our country.
Falk, who had lost an eye to cancer when he was three years old, starred in Columbo for over 7 years and recently the show reruns have been regaining popularity with a younger audience who weren’t alive when it was first on television.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
Eglin Air Force Base 1801.002.DD.jpg
www.doncolinphotographs.com #rural #landscape
#wilderness #nature #forgotten
#savethedecay #renegade_rural #backroad_visions #rsa_portraits #makeportraits #portraits #portrait #surrealism
#southernglossary #thephotomotel #aintbadmagazine
#flakphotorepost #somewheremagazine #lensculture #doncolinphotographs
#perpetualshow #visiblenarrative #standardeats #tchotchkekingdom #canon6d #canondslr #classicps#classiclr
Delete CommentstevenbullockartMy woodgrain emerges.
7 DAYS AGO
Add a comment…
via Instagram ift.tt/2lWtUpJ
The National Weather Service advised to seek shelter due to this tornado warned storm. The bees listened. There wasn't a single one buzzing around. I, on the hand, stood out on the prairie like a goon taking pictures
South of Dodge ND
Category: Scenery
6-28-18
Casey Helling, Golden Valley
More from the tornado warned storm near Dodge. This huge wall cloud was close to engolfing 3 tall silos at a feedlot south of Dodge.
South of Dodge ND
Category: Scenery
6-28-18
Casey Helling, Golden Valley
Cafe Mom's on HWY 20 Outside of Sedro-Woolley in Washington State#signmongers
#signcollective
#gas_food_lodging
#signgeeks
#rous_roadsigns
#signofgrime
#ig_signage
#signhunters
#rsa_streetview
#ipulledoverforthis
#Vintage_signage
#country_features
#mybest_shot
#rustlord_unity
#wow_america
#icu_usa
#trb_rural
#city_features
#grime_scene_investigators
#backroad_visions
#photo_hitchhikers
Concrete, WA. USA - 04/09/2020: Cascade Mountain Lodge Neon Sign, rusted and faded.#signmongers
#signcollective
#gas_food_lodging
#signgeeks
#rous_roadsigns
#signofgrime
#ig_signage
#signhunters
#rsa_streetview
#ipulledoverforthis
#Vintage_signage
#country_features
#mybest_shot
#rustlord_unity
#wow_america
#icu_usa
#trb_rural
#city_features
#grime_scene_investigators
#backroad_visions
#photo_hitchhikers