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in other news…

i explored the northern neck of virginia this past weekend. (does that mean VA has a southern neck? google suggests “no.”)

photos to follow within a reasonable time.

more texture

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asheville textures

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last weekend G and i were in asheville, NC. some neat stuff. more to come.

south dakota

a small town between verdigre, ne and mitchell, sd

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buildings in mitchell that aren’t the corn palace

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sorghum field

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dolly sods

saturday sunset found me in the back seat of eddie (g in the front passenger seat, more on that later), bumping over FR19 and FR75 in west virginia on our way to dolly sods. we stopped at a beautiful scenic overlook, and continued on to bear rocks, where we watched the sun go down.

the scenic overlook was something like this:

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with views along the trail, so:

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flowers along path to dolly sods overlook
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and overlooking the valley, the remains of the summer:

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sunset through vegetation
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then, continuing on to bear rocks, walking along the bones of the earth. once entirely forested, dolly sods had been clear cut during the civil war. the sun dried out the peat moss, which eventually caught fire and burned away. what’s left is cranberry bog (in west virginia, no less, something that tweaks what little rhode island nature i have), blueberries, and a host of other berries. we saw little, as the sun was setting.

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moonrise over bear rocks
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later i’ll put up the photos taken during eddie’s adventure on the canaan loop road. including parking in a stream to snap some shots. ah, eddie. so happy to have been lifted, winched, re-geared, and god knows what else has been done to him.

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a reason to automate

*looks down*

boy, there are a lot of photos down there. enough to make me finally learn to use the “automate” function in photoshop cs. about time…

cows. elk. mule deer. wind crying along the tops of hills in the evenings. bright stars. few people.

northeastern nebraska.

labor day weekend: saturday

saturday: kreycik’s riverview ranch (on the lewis & clark trail)

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pulled by a tractor

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featuring elk

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and buffalo

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and a texas longhorn named boomer.

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then a visit to pischelville (no town freer of the priest in knox county),

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(founded by anton pischel, pioneer)

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the pischelville cemetery (population considerably larger than 2)

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and the road out of town.

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labor day weekend, friday

friday: the sale barn

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and a walk

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to a cemetery (the catholic one).

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nebraska, labor day weekend

wednesday: arrival
main street

thursday: unexpected sightseeing
(yes, that’s exactly what you thought it was. a traveling scale model of the vietnam memorial.)
vietnam memorial wall