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This farm implement was last licensed in 1945 but it surely is a clue as to why our US infrastructure, roads and bridges are being destroyed; well, that and the righties. I am using a McIntosh Ag Museum shot to finish a greenish series by adding rust and weeds. This certainly is a fitting title for this image. This machinery is for the ages, the iron ages! This is some kind of weird plowing implement, it must be an older iron implement and possibly horse-drawn but probably not in 1945. I see some rust on it. It had to be iron heavy in order to be able to "bite" into the soil. I ought to go again and figure out the exact function but I am close.

This June found a return to hot temperatures. Wundermaps reported 101 degrees while I was out there. Whew! The direct sun blazed across the scene. I decided that I had missed some shots at McIntosh and went out in the baking sun.

Highway #66 seemed overloaded with early summer travelers to the hills, probably not knowing summer might not arrive until July in the Rockies. They are still dumped a lot of snow into the rivers yet there are plenty of folks willing to jump in a drown.

Rust by Fritz Enalg

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'Rust and Ruins' by Tim Knifton

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Previous set of Pripyat here www.flickr.com/photos/timster1973/sets/72157643944616235/

Named for the nearby Pripyat River, Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970, the ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Union, for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and had grown to a population of 49,360 before being evacuated a few days after the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Though Pripyat is located within the administrative district of Ivankiv Raion, the abandoned city now has a special status within the larger Kiev Oblast (province), being administered directly from Kiev. Pripyat is also supervised by Ukraine's Ministry of Emergencies, which manages activities for the entire Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Access to Pripyat, unlike cities of military importance, was not restricted before the disaster as nuclear power stations were seen by the Soviet Union as safer than other types of power plants. Nuclear power stations were presented as being an achievement of Soviet engineering, where nuclear power was harnessed for peaceful projects. The slogan "peaceful atom" (Russian: mirnyj atom) was popular during those times. The original plan had been to build the plant only 25 km (16 mi) from Kiev, but the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, among other bodies, expressed concern about it being too close to the city. As a result, the power station and Pripyat were built at their current locations, about 100 km (62 mi) from Kiev. After the disaster the city of Pripyat was evacuated in two days.

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Rust Art by Karma

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somethingintheway by John McNally

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'somethingintheway' On Black

rust & scratches by Bruce S

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Found abstract

Rusted and Fused by adamopal

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...rust...rest... by ᗪIEᔕ OᑎᑎE

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Rust by Rich Presswood

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Rust blistered paint by unkleD

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Rusted Bench by No Talent Bum

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Another object in Clyde's incredible yards!

Rust Never Sleeps by possumgirl2

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Shipwreck of SS Waitangi.

rust decay (73) by hans m.

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Rust crackle by tina negus

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Rust macro

Rusting Coleman Truck by Alan Vernon

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Observed in the mountains of Colorado. The American Coleman was apparently a line of trucks built from the 1950s into the 1970s. The company was based in Littleton, Colorado.

Rust by Doug West

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rust in blue by mifribe

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rust and feather by Gillian Thompson