Bold Witness. This driver has Bible verses all over the truck. I didn't look, but I suspect even the top of the trailer declares the gospel!
Someone had the right idea, setting up this old chair beneath the lone tree up along Promontory Point in north Bismarck. It's a perfect vantage point for sunset viewing. The chair has since been removed.
Classic sodas on sale at Mac's Hardware on south 26th Street.
Norwegian Pride on display at the Kirkwood Mall. Ole Wan Kenobi?
Another fresh batch of magazines for the AR-15 arrived, ready to get stuffed full of ammunition. They've got plenty of company.
Slugbug. Slugbug. Slugbug. Slugbug. Slugbug. Slugbug. No slugbacks!
Waiting for the first (west) span of the old Liberty Memorial Bridge to go BOOM. Cappuccino from the B&J Tesoro on 6th Street helped keep things warm.
I didn't know the First Lady was in town, but I recognized this plane from all the way over on University Drive.
Of all the times to be walking out on the sandbar. This was a very fast moving cell. My wife and I were able to walk back to the truck, however, before the rain came upon us because we were on the south edge of the storm.
This church is one of about three or four deserted buildings that make up the ghost town of Arena, North Dakota. It sits to the northeast of the Bismarck-Mandan area.
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( 3 / 170 )I back up the little card in my cell phone regularly, as with my wife's phone (and my GPS, and everything else). I had a lot of neat photos in there, so I figured I'd share a bunch of them.
Spotted back behind St. Alexius Medical Center, near the Emergency Room entrance. I used to be a frequent flyer there back in my extreme sports days. I always had a regular bed, the one along the east wall by the phone. They spelled "toweth" wrong.
My camera all set up to take a time lapse of bugs climbing all over my polarizer filter (oh yeah, and a wind turbine being assembled).
I spotted this miniature dragster in Mandan.
I went out riding after church one evening and took a brief opportunity to look up something in my Bible. I have some friends who are going through quite a setback with their little baby and I needed to seek some answers as I watch them going through it.
One reason why I quit racing, although I'm not saying I won't start up again someday. No, this isn't my wheel. It was sent to me by a racing pal.
Ah, the river at sunset.
Finishing up with sunrise photos at the old Occident elevator at Almont. I left a tripod in the shot for my friend Watson (inside joke).
I spotted this mongrel on the Minot Air Force Base. Note the old front end on the truck with the newer model back end and tail gate.
This is the foot bridge across Hay Creek (I believe) at the Game & Fish OWLS site in east Bismarck, beside the NDG&F office.
Two key tools in getting neat photos of rural North Dakota: knobby tires and a good GPS loaded with trail maps and section line roads.
Lots more to come...
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It's telling that this stone stands within sight of the capitol grounds. I'd bet only a handful of people know it's here, or that it's one of only a few remaining at the old Greenwood Cemetery.
I wrote before about this cemetery, located south of Mandan near my boyhood home. Now the city is expanding southward and encroaching upon it; in fact, the entry to it in my original post doesn't even exist now. A new water tower is being constructed nearby, and it's got a few back yards adjacent to it.
It's pretty much abandoned, although Morton County takes care of it. A few stones from the 1800s remain, but there were some pretty big surprises outside of what would seem to be the cemetery grounds. Last year, crews working on the new water tower uncovered some unmarked graves. The news reports were written to give the impression that there were only a couple, but that's not the case. There were over FORTY. Law enforcement personnel worked extra shifts to protect the site from grave robbers until the situation could be handled. This article gives a little bit of detail on that process.
This hill could tell a lot of stories if it could talk, to be sure. At this point there probably aren't any more unexpected graves, at least not any more groups of forty-two. There are, however, a few remaining stones like the one pictured above. I'd like to let the markings on it tell that story for you:
JOHN S. MANN
NOV 30, 1815 TO SEPT 22, 1891
ELIZABETH D
MAR 6, 1811 TO NOV 12, 1874
ELLA
SEPT 28, 1882 TO OCT 8, 1891
OUR DARLING
DIED SEPT 14, 1883
You can find out more about the history of this cemetery in this book at the state archives at the Heritage Center.
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I've seen a few things lately that caught my eye, and a few of them have one thing in common: they're attached to vehicles. Let's start with this bumper sticker, which made me smile.
Amen to this one. As you know, I'm a cheerleader for our men and women in military and law enforcement service. I have the opportunity to run around with my camera and post drivel on the Internet because there are people stateside and abroad willing to put their lives on the line for my safety.
As far as humor goes, I probably saved the best for last. This inventive chap found one way to haul his extension ladder on the ol' Merc: roll the windows down and strap it to the side!
I have quite the collection of oddities and cool stuff bouncing around in my cell phone, maybe I'll throw a few more up here from time to time. Even though I have my big camera with me most of the time, the cell phone cam turns out to be pretty handy when time is short.
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Bummer that I have to resize these photos and videos to 500 pixels wide, because they're really cool full size! For instance, yes, there IS a guy standing next to the hook on that crane. Someone has to guide things into place. Naturally the crew takes lots and lots and LOTS of safety precautions for their workers and innocent bystanders like me. Which reminds me, I've got a new hero: the guy running that big white crane. The precision of this crew was amazing, and when time is compressed their work on these wind turbines becomes apparent as clockwork that it is. I took some HD equipment with me from work so I could grab a time lapse video Too bad I don't have room here to show it at 1080p!
Again, that crew was amazing to watch. I wanted to applaud after they got that second unit assembled; it was in such a cramped position that the crane operator actually had to roll the crane back a little bit on its tracks! I bet that made him nervous. In any case, both of the assemblies that I watched appeared to go without a hitch, and I'm sure it's due to good planning and a talented crew. It was a real joy to be along for the ride, even at a safe distance. I stayed along the main road and chatted with the landowners whose land I was parked on. A representative from the company doing this work told me that these sites and the access roads leading to them are off limits to the public. Take note of that if you decide you want to see any of this action for yourself.
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