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""If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world." Author unknown.
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Through the early parts of America’s involvement in World War II, the United States forceably moved and imprisoned over 120,000 of its Japanese citizens. They were mostly taken from the West Coast to more inland places such as Idaho, Utah, and Camp Amache in Colorado, pictured here.
The camp, near the town of Granada, was opened in August of 1942. Over its three-years of existence, nearly 10,000 Japanese-Americans were shuffled through. The population at any given time was around 7,000.
Most of the prisoners came from the Los Angeles area. The were allowed only one bag per person, and were forced to sell homes, businesses, cars, pets.
Local white residents grew resentful when the Camp built a high school for its imprisoned children. They saw this as coddling.
But though they were prisoners, the history and reality of the situation isn’t so simple to digest. For example, their high school football team was treated like any other high school team, playing against other nearby schools (and winning all but one game in three years).
Words like “prisoner” and “forceably removed” are accurate and necessary, but – as will most history – there is nuance. The white culture of the United States is replete with racism. We’ve allowed it to soak into every page of our history. But white culture, like any human culture, also has empathy, goodness, and compassion. The mixture of this hatred with goodness, even love, is difficult to parse and understand. It never pleases either “side” in any debate.
History, it seems, has no sides. It just is. We can twist and interpret it to meet our ends, but ultimately, history doesn’t give a damn about us, and we should probably just accept it as it is.
All that is left today at Camp Amache is this watertower, a rebuilt barracks, a graveyard, and a sprawling gridwork of streets. It’s open to the public, and well worth a visit – as are all of the Japanese-American interment camps.
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‘Counts as Straw’
Camera: Ansco Color Clipper (c1950)
Film: Kodak Gold 100 (x-03/1996)
Process: DIY ECN-2
Granada War Relocation Center (Japanese Interment Camp Amache), Colorado
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Another shot from a previous year at the fabulous Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. This year's 25th anniversary festival starts March 27th.
Visit www.tulipfestival.org/ for more details and to see how you can plan a visit.
Some interesting species that I'd missed the flight shot of:
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From Left:
Andean Guan - Ecuador
Sapphire-vented Puffleg - Ecuador
Great Sapphirewing Hummingbird - Ecuador
Temminck's Courser - Kenya
African Rail - Kenya
Hint: I initially miscounted, and I was right there in front of them. Hint #2: View large
Sorry about the slight blurriness. Once again, the snakes chose to be in an area not conducive to good photography. I wasn't about to manually adjust them either. Shortly after this photo was taken, they took turns crawling out of sight.
So the last day of 2015 is here. The moments of 2015 will disappear, but the memories will still be with us for ever. The good memories and the bad ones. Things we have to take with us on our journey. Happy new year everyone😘💖
I always have vivid dreams when I take a nap. Today, I dreamed that Lei and her hubby Andy, Charlie and I, my friend Missy and my grandmother crashed a wedding. The preacher was wearing a t-shirt with a Dodge City Red Demon on it and had an ASU Sun Devil painted on his face. A woman was speaking about how women are like rivers, ever changing.
In honor of today which is Festival of Sleep Day!
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...I have a passion for white benches...there must be more than a dozen inside our home...and then there are even some outdoors...most are functional, but these three are just sittin' pretty...
Textures by Kim Klassen, CatHairStudios, and French Kiss...
Vintage frame by Florabella
Visiting the RH&DR for the gala was Count Louis which was working up and down the line at New Romney. Obviously not a Romney loco, but was built for Louis Zborowski who was a racing driver and started the RH&DR project along with Captain Howey. Sadly Count Louis was killed in a racing accident in Monza before the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch railway opened. The loco was named after him after his death and spent most of its life at the Fairbourne railway. Taken on 13/5/23.
Three more photos from our High River Christmas Bird Count - I need a change of things to photograph! I happened to notice that this Common Redpoll had an orange spot on its forehead, instead of a red one.
Four days ago, on 19 December 2017, it was the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count for High River, a town to the south of Calgary. I am adding the report by Gus Yaki, the leader of our small group of 7, travelling in two cars. What Gus did not add, because he did not stay for the delicious Potluck supper after the Count, is that the forecast snow (Snowfall Warning in effect) arrived in full force in the evening and the drive back to Calgary was most unpleasant, with low visibility. Looked like there were about 10" of the white stuff on top of my fence by the next morning. Thanks so much, Lorrie and John, for being so kind and picking me up in the early morning and driving me all day long, and then dropping me off for the Potluck and returning later to collect me ready for the three of us to return to Calgary. Appreciated more than I can say! Thanks, also, to Greg Wagner for organizing the Count - as usual, great job! Last, but not least, many thanks to those who organized and prepared such a wonderful feast for us all to thoroughly enjoy at the end of the day! I left home around 7:00 am and arrived home about 8:15 pm, finally getting to bed at 2:00 am and eventually waking up at noon the next day! Was I tired after a full day out, especially after only two hours sleep the previous night!
I should also add my thanks to the various property owners who very kindly gave us permission to wander round their farmyards in search of any birds. Being allowed to do this adds so much more interest to our Count day, and we really appreciate it.
One exciting sighting was a beautiful female Moose, maybe two years old! This was the very first sighting ever of a Moose in our SE quadrant of the High River Count circle. From a distance, she was barely noticeable through the falling snow.
Common Redpolls were enjoyed at some feeders. They gave me the first opportunity to take photos this season. Much as I prefer photos without feeders, I am very glad for this chance. They are such dainty little birds, and fast-moving. It always looks like a feeding frenzy when they are at the feeders.
"High River CBC, SE Quadrant, including Frank Lake. 0800-1545, Tue, 19 Dec2017. Light overcast, light snow beginning at 1100. N Wind 10kph, -07 to -06°C. Ground bare initially, 3 cm at end. Little Bow River, mostly open.
Mallard-500
Northern Shoveler-1 f.
Northern Pintail-2
Common Goldeneye-3
Gray Partridge-8
Bald Eagle-1 ad, on Frank Lake
Prairie Falcon-1
Rock Pigeon-56
Great Horned Owl-6
Snowy Owl-1
Blue Jay-4
Black-billed Magpie-17
Common Raven-4
Song Sparrow-1
Snow Bunting-150
Common Redpoll-790
House Sparrow-202
Ring-necked Pheasant tracks by observation blind.
Gord Fraser, on W side of Little Bow, just N of 594 Av, had 40 Gray Partridges this a.m.
Coyote-4
Skunk track by observation blind
Meadow Vole-1
Mule Deer-6
Moose-1 f.
Km by Car- 58
Km on foot -5
Total km - 63
Time by car – 2 hrs
Time on foot-5 hrs
Total party hours-7 hrs"
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This so helpful. Now how many of those things I ordered will actually get here on time? However we do subscribe to the notion that the season of light goes on longer than it shows on the calendar -
Imagine my delight at spotting an Orange-tip in powered down mode resting on a Dandelion clock. Wow!
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A portrait of Rob Townsend from the 'Genesis Revisited' gig by Steve Hackett at Le Trianon, Paris.
My thanks are due to Steve and Jo Hackett for arranging my photo pass.
You can other pics in my Steve Hackett set.