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The top arrangement is the one I had planed for my picture and would only require 24 slices of cane. However, the arrangement below is more appealing but will require 40 slices. I can just about make it.
A small guard tower just at the border of the land. To show a presents to everyone else that the land is conquered.
Yavapai and Apache
Yavapai and Apache history spans several hundred years in the Verde Valley at a minimum. The tribes generally coexisted, as two culturally distinct groups in the country surrounding the Verde River. In the case of the Yavapai, they extended westward from the Verde Country out into the low desert bordering the Colorado River and for the Tonto Apache, eastward from the Verde River towards the White Mountains. Both groups ranged as far north as the Grand Canyon for resources and south to the Phoenix Basin, where they had common enemies in the Pima, Papago and Maricopa. Both Yavapai and Apache regularly traded with the Hopi. The Apache of the Verde Valley regularly raided into Old Mexico.
The Yavapai are a Yuman speaking tribe, as are all Upland Pai tribes (Hualapai, Havasupai, Yavapai and the displaced Pai Pai of Baja del Norte). Many archaeologists assume that they arrived in the Verde Valley around AD 1300, although their history suggests a much earlier arrival. They are linguistically and culturally unrelated to the Apache, who live in eastern and central Arizona. Due to the general similarities of, black hair, basket technology and subsistence adaptations, the Yavapai were often mistakenly referred to as "Mohave-Apache" by Euro-American observers, especially by the military, who unfortunately did not as a rule concern themselves with cultural nuance.
The Yavapai were semi-nomadic hunter-gathers who lived and traveled in small groups within specific home territories. The Wipukupaya group occupied the Red Rock country including Oak Creek Canyon and the area east to the Verde Valley.
The term Apache applies to a diverse group of Na-Diné (Athapaskan) speaking tribes and bands, who entered the Southwest before the arrival of Europeans. In the 19th century the Apaches inhabited a broad area from central Arizona to southern Texas and northern Mexico. Many Apache groups were nomadic or seminomadic and traveled over large areas, including areas visited or inhabited by other tribes. They lived with a light hand on the landscape. With a mainly perishable material culture and a life on the surface, very little artifactual evidence survives to pinpoint any chronological entry into the region let alone from where and how many. This makes it difficult to correlate geographic locations with any single specific cultural group, or even with a particular tribe.
Some archaeologists place the Tonto-Apache arrival in the Verde Valley around 1450, others such as tribal archaeologist Chris Coder place the arrival up to two-centuries earlier and believes they arrived just after the great regional disruption at the end of the thirteenth century based on Hopi oral traditions. Physical evidence of Tonto Apache (known to themselves as Dil zhee', translated as “The Hunters”) use is found in the Beaver Creek area, though some rock art at Honanki and Palatki indicates they were on the west side of the Sedona area as well.
When the Spanish explorer Antonio Espejo arrived in the Verde Valley in 1583, he described the Yavapai and Apache as “rustic people” who “gave us what they had.” They were described as a hunting and gathering people. The American entrance into Yavapai and Apache traditions began in earnest after 1860. Exploring and trapping parties had made their way here earlier, but no effort had been made to settle. In 1863, Indian hostilities resulted from the establishment of mining camps on their ancestral lands and due to the active murder, deceit and poisoning of Apache, in particular, by the confederate deserter, King Woolsey. These hostilities continued without interruption until General Crook rounded up the surviving Yavapai and Apache and took them to the Rio Verde Reservation in 1872. This usurpation of their Homelands and sequestering on the Rio Verde Reserve is referred to as the “conquest” by the Yavapai-Apache Nation. They remained there until March 1875, when an estimated 1,500 Yavapai and Apache were moved from the Rio Verde Indian Reserve 180 miles away to the Indian Agency at San Carlos. The forced removal, now known as Exodus Day, of the indigenous people of the Verde Valley resulted in scores of lives lost and the loss of nine hundred square miles of Executive Order lands promised to the Yavapai-Apache by the United States government. When they were finally allowed to leave San Carlos in 1900, only about 200 Yavapai and Apache actually made it back to their homeland in the Verde Valley.
The modern Yavapai-Apache Nation is the artificial amalgamation of these two distinct cultures, who occupied opposite sides of the Verde Valley for centuries prior to the Euro-American conquest of the Southwest. The Nation as we know it today is the result of legislation passed by the Congress in 1934 known as the Indian Reorganization Act, in an effort to establish a single tribe in the Upper Verde Valley. This was done as an expedient by the federal government who believed that the shared experience of the Yavapai and Apache at San Carlos from 1875 to around 1899 rationalized this as a legitimate act. Today the several satellite communities of the Nation truly reflect the evolution from two historically distinct Tribes into the single Nation of today. The Nation is a single political entity but still respects its dual heritage as an important legacy for all of the descendants from those times. Today Reservation Trust Lands include almost 2,000 acres spread across the four separate parcels in the tribal communities of Lower Camp Verde, Middle Verde, Clarkdale and Rimrock.
*Verde Valley Archaeology Center and Museum
Back in the day, tourists could take a boat from Waterton Park in Canada's Alberta province south along Upper Waterton Lake across the international border to Goat Haunt in Montana, USA, and then hike back to Waterton.
I took the above shot at the international boundary during my hike back to get my car in order to drive back into the US via a border checkpoint (unmanned on my way north early that morning, but manned on my way back in late afternoon) to my hotel in West Glacier; there were no Canadian border posts/inspections.
It is interesting to see that only minute changes were made from the 1818 marker to the 1925 marker; the firebreak on the far shore of the lake is a continuing indication of the border. Alberta, Canada is to the left; I was just inside Montana, USA.
Of course, this was pre-9/11! I believe that Canadians and Americans could still do this sort of trip after 9/11 but not those like me from further abroad. With the orange-faced man-baby back in Washington, I suppose there's a possibility that a wall might blight this view at some point in the future...
And yes, sorry, that's my rucksack getting into the picture by mistake...
Borders Buses Optare Versa YA13AEL 11309 is seen in Edinburgh City Centre on a 51 service, 15th October
Border Buses Scania Wright Solar SN55JVM is seen laying over on Warwick Road, near Carlisle Bus Station between workings of the X95, a route recently taken over by Border Buses when they purchased First, 24th April
Barney, Barney, quick pose for the camera!
Pfft, don't you start Flynn... it's bad enough Hooman sticks the clicky box in my face, I don't need you pesking too!
But Barney, you need to pose!
Why?
Cause I made a New Year's Resolution.
YOU made a New Year's Resolution and that means I have to pose?
Yeah! Yeah... See I was thinking, this year, I want to earn more biscuits and I thought what about if we were in a BAND?!
A... band?
Yep. You know, like what hoomans have for pack howls but they get biscuits for it, or um, money anyway. You can be the lead singer and I'll do the other noises. Drumming and stuff.
Hmm, I do like howling... and more biscuits would be nice! But what type of music will we make?
Summat cool... Trendy. What the puppies like. How bout hip hop. I like hopping.
No! No hip hopping. I want to do folksy stuff. I feel my howling style suits that better.
Urgh but banjos make my ears hurt. Well, anyway, we can sort out the details later... Let's get the album cover sorted! Now pose Barney!
Fine, fine...
For some reason this shot of the two collies reminded me of an album cover ;-) Barney has always enjoyed howling (it has to be said, he's not particularly tuneful - he makes up for it with volume though!). He used to regularly accompany my father when dad was playing the guitar, or piano & if anyone woo-woos at him, he enthusiastically answers. I've tried to coax Flynn into howling as well but he just starts barking at me (often rather angrily!), so no singing career for him! However, he does like to get my attention by flipping his metal food bowl over & then tap tap tapping his front paws up & down on it, so maybe he could be a drummer?
ps Any name suggestions for their band? :)
Closed in 2012 along with the rest of the Borders chain.
This shopping center in Dearborn, Michigan was built by the Kmart Corporation to house the variety of brands they had in the early 1990s. Few if any of these "Kmart Corp. shopping centers" were built outside of Detroit or Chicago. This particular shopping center was built to look slightly more upscale than the others, maybe because it was built five miles from the first Kmart store, less than 20 miles from Kmart's Headquarters at the time, and literally across the street from Ford's Headquarters complex.
This shopping center was originally opened with Builders Square, Pace, Super Kmart Center, Office Max, Sports Authority, Service Merchandise (the only place not owned by Kmart when it opened), and Borders Books & Music. In the 1990s Kmart sold most pace stores to Sam's Club (including this one), split off Builders Square (which later liquidated), then sold Office Max, Sports Authority, and Borders (which also has liquidated).
After Builders Square liquidated a Home Depot opened in its place. Super Kmart closed in 2003 and later became a Walmart. Sam's Club also closed then became Garden Ridge (since rebranded "at home"). The Borders store sits vacant as of early 2015. The Service Merchandise store is now Value City Furniture. Office Max and Sports Authority still remain in the shopping center.
It is neat to take into consideration that the whole shopping center was built by one retail company and it actually feels much more expansive in person rather that just seeing it through pictures. It is also important to note that in the more than 20 years this shopping center has been built not one retail store has modified its exterior in any notable way besides Walmart bricking in Super Kmart's cafe windows and auto center. I guess this shopping center was built in a fairly timeless design.
Fairlane North Shopping Center, Mercury Drive and Ford Road, Dearborn, Michigan
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YR61RVE was a Scania N230UD Omnidekka H41/22D new as Centrewest SN36064 in October 2011. It is one of a pair on loan to Borders Buses, and is seen in Galashiels.
This is one of 22 artworks by Johannes Dörflinger that are positionend at german-swiss border at seaside of Constance (Germany) and Kreuzlingen (Switzerland) - the place is called "Klein Venedig" (Little Venezia). This national border is called "Kunstgrenze" - artwork border. Artist Johannes Dörflinger made Tarot figures according to the Visconti Tarot. This one shows the Magus like in Rider Tarot. 2 years ago at the same place it looked like that