Not a funny photo, just cool

[Alpo]

Arches National Park, Utah.

https://www.nps.gov/arch/index.htm

Couple of days ago. Moonrise.

 

[Warden Callaway]

I have a place in the yard I set in the evening and watch wildlife.  The last couple evening about sundown the sky very clear the moon has been remarkably clear and large.  I glanced up at the exact time to see a passenger airplane cross it.  Would have been a great photo.  But no way I could have gotten the shot.

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

On 11/12/2024 at 9:44 AM, Warden Callaway said:

I have a place in the yard I set in the evening and watch wildlife.  The last couple evening about sundown the sky very clear the moon has been remarkably clear and large.  I glanced up at the exact time to see a passenger airplane cross it.  Would have been a great photo.  But no way I could have gotten the shot.

You captured the shot, at least in my imagination.

I can see it clearly, projected on the screen of my imagination.

Gorgeous photo, thank you!

[Alpo]

^^^^^^

Yeah, what he said. I can still see it, plain as anything.

[Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485]

On 11/14/2024 at 1:06 AM, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_horse

 

 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

Imagine the work and training that went on to convince that horse to jump!!

[Sedalia Dave]

I've never seen diving horses. I have however seen a lot of diving mules. In the 70's it was a staple every year at the Missouri State Fair.  

 

IIRC They had Diving Mules at the Bishop Ca Mules Days Celebration.  That would have been in mid 2000

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

19 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

Imagine the work and training that went on to convince that horse to jump!!

yeah, that and a hinged floor that dropped under the horse.  

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

On 11/17/2024 at 1:24 PM, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

yeah, that and a hinged floor that dropped under the horse.  

 

But I liked my version better!

SO THERE!

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

5 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

 

But I liked my version better!

SO THERE!

Dang, that's a great portrait of you!  

[Eyesa Horg]

Wellll, that was a coffee spitter!

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

15 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Dang, that's a great portrait of you!  

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

[Alpo]

Pilot exiting a F4F wildcat after a routine carrier landing.

 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

Peru

[Rip Snorter]

Hangouts for sure!

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

18 hours ago, Alpo said:

Pilot exiting a F4F wildcat after a routine carrier landing.

 

 

  ...... "just off to change my underwear ... " ......

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

Hopefully not near a General Aviation runway.

[bgavin]

Been to Arches, along with Indiana Jones.
Took the kids back in the 80s while they were small.

Hauled a 4x5 view camera and case on a hand truck up to Delicate Arch.
It was a whole lot less crowded back then, before the Instagram Selfie crowd overran the place.

 

[Pat Riot]

On 11/20/2024 at 8:00 PM, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

Peru

Something to spend a sleepless night in hanging on a rock face hundreds of feet above splat land. 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

A couple of visitors to my watch on the Montreal River.

Guess which one was the noisiest! *

 

* YEP! THAT DANG CANADIAN SYMBOL THE BEAVER!

[Alpo]

I ain't got no experience with mooses. But the deary deers down here don't hardly make no noise at all, while squirrels and s*** sparrows (me and my friends started calling them that when we would hear a noise over in the bushes and sneak over there hoping to get a deer and - "s***. Just them sparrows") make enough noise for a platoon of infantry.

 

So I guess the noisiest was the beaver.

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

Give Alpo a big cigar!

Beaver was aware I was sitting there and started the old tail slapping routine until I was tempted to put a .338 into him.

Moose on the other hand can be ghostlike traveling through the bush. 

Unless it's the rut and the bulls get ornery with one another over a particularly pretty cow.

Think two D-9 bulldozers going at one another. Trees knocked down or ripped up, bush floor looking like it had been plowed.

Sometimes the mating duel can be fatal.

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

Looking from my rear deck, at the neighbours back yards after a snow fall.

[Alpo]

[T.K.]

Sunset in the Superstition mountains, Arizona.

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

Cruise Night at Old Town, Claremont, Fl.

[Subdeacon Joe]

Solar Hola

 

 

 

 

[Alpo]

[Subdeacon Joe]

USS Midway in drydock during the 1970s.