tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40450151253099088832024-03-05T13:52:15.814-08:00Where's Liz? 2015"You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fulness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures for evermore."
(Psalms 16:11)Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045015125309908883.post-16506479350207745312016-01-01T17:35:00.000-08:002016-01-01T17:35:07.582-08:00Moved to a new blog.<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking for Liz? She's moved to a new blog for 2016:</span><br />
<a href="http://wheresliz-2016.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://wheresliz-2016.blogspot.com</a>Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045015125309908883.post-73896291089146953122015-12-29T12:57:00.004-08:002015-12-29T12:59:01.415-08:00Balmorhea State Park, TX<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My plan had been to stay 3 days including Christmas here, but the approaching blizzard made me decide on a one-night stop and then hightail it to western New Mexico before the storm hit. Turned out to be a good decision. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I did enjoy one nice afternoon here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Really nice campground with pull-through sites, water and electric hook-ups and cable TV! You don't see cable TV in very many State Parks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No real hiking trails here, but there are water features and lots of birds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For thousands of years San Solomon Springs made this area a desert oasis. The springs were named by the first settlers, Mexican farmers who used the water to irrigate crops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today, the San Solomon Cienega is a 3-acre wetlands restoration area that is used as a refuge for aquatic life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It serves as a home for the endangered fish, as well as other aquatic and amphibian life and many bird species.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of the species found here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I saw lots of American Coots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is probably a Red-eared Slider.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is an under-water viewing area, but the glass panels were too dirty or covered with algae to see through.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An "unofficial"trail around the Cienega.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1851, the first canals were built to facilitate large-scale irrigation. The Bureau of Reclamation dredged the springs in 1927 and constructed the main canal which remains in use today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Coots gather by the canal on the left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The CCC built the V-shaped swimming pool, which was formed with a 200' circle over the spring and lined with limestone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Lesser Scaup and a couple of Coots were the only ones swimming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is another wetland area near the park entrance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a Scaup resting on the bank.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Phoebe</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meadowlark</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's all there was time for. In the morning I got an early start to get as far as Deming, NM, where we spent Christmas and waited out the blizzard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">RV friend, Anita, also caught up with me there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Christmas moon:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The blizzard blew through dumping only about an inch of snow in Deming, but eastern NM and western Texas got hammered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thistle and I played in the snow for a couple of days.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when it was safe, Anita and I got back on the road to Arizona, but that's another post.</span></div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045015125309908883.post-17973589342939876192015-12-26T14:57:00.002-08:002015-12-26T14:57:35.488-08:00McDonald Observatory, Davis Mountains, Texas<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I passed this historic ranch on the way to the Observatory. They have horseback riding there and I tried to book a ride, but I had no phone service in the campground and they did not answer when I called from town. So next time, perhaps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Historical marker about the ranch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heading into the Davis Mountains on the scenic loop road that I didn't have time to complete.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Approaching the observatory. Two of the larger telescopes can be seen on the mountaintop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Visitor Center: I arrived just in time for the live Solar Viewing and tour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our tour began with a 45 minute college level lecture before the live solar viewing. In this filtered live view of the sun you can see two sun spots, the dark one on the right and one forming on the far left where the red laser is pointing. The white spot in the center is a solar flare, and the dark line above it is another feature that I can't remember the name of. Good thing there was no test.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Close up of the Sun Spot. In the live view you could see the shimmering movement of the gases around it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By covering the rest of the sun with the red they can highlight the solar flares at the edge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the solar viewing we were off to tour the two main telescopes. The first we will see is the 107" (mirror) Harlan J. Smith Telescope. Notice the temperature inside the dome is 46 degrees. They keep the temperature the same as the expected nighttime outside temperature so when they open the dome for night viewing there will be no fogging of the view due to temperature differences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our second stop will be at the newer 362" (mirror array) Hobby-Eberly Telescope, currently the 3rd largest in the world. (Canary Islands and Hawaii have #1 and 2)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Outside the Visitor Center is this large sundial whose shadow shows the current time. We board a shuttle from here to take us the rest of the way up the mountain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">View of the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hobby-Eberly Telescope.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dome on the left holds the first telescope built at the McDonald Observatory by the University of Texas in cooperation with the University of Pennsylvania if I remember correctly. Texas had the money collected in donations, and Pennsylvania had the Astronomy Program. The dome on the right is where we will go first...</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Harlan J. Smith Telescope.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">View from the top. It is the highest point in Texas accessible by road.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the residence of the lead astronomer....not bad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And other resident and guest astronomers reside here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">View of the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hobby-Eberly Telescope atop a nearby mountain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some facts about the telescope:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had a choice of elevator or stairs. My Fitbit wanted to do some stairs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The huge Harlan J. Smith Telescope attached to an arm with counterweight on the right. The stairs allow access to the telescope from above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The round hatch on the side is one of the places where additional mirrors can be attached depending on the study being done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our guide at the control panel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Notice how he is raising the platform he is standing on. This helps workers access the telescope from below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The guide uses a small model of the telescope to show the location of the large mirror.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next he operates the control to raise the telescope. Click on the short video.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The white covering over the opening to the sky can be moved to access other equipment as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A crane is exposed that is used to move supplemental mirrors into place on the telescope.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally the whole outside dome is rotated to move the opening to the right angle depending on what part of the sky is to be observed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watch the video of the dome rotating. The dome is mounted on castors that are not attached to the floor where the telescope is, so there are no vibrations affecting the telescope.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When in position then the outside doors are opened for the telescope to view the night sky. We can't watch that because they never open them in the day due to the difference in ambient temperatures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our next stop is at the newer </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hobby-Eberly Telescope, named for its chief benefactors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This telescope is much lighter and cheaper to build due to its design. Instead of one big mirror it has an array of mirrors.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As with both of these large telescopes, one does not view the sky through an eyepiece mounted on the telescope itself. Instead telescopic views are transmitted to computers in the control room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This telescope is out of commission while it is being prepared for an upcoming study. Unfortunately it is pointed away from our view, so it is hard to get a view of the segmented mirrors. Here you can see the edge of one mounted on the blue frame below.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This telescope is not mounted on a large arm like the other. Instead it is on a platform whose "feet" are inflated in such a way that the platform hovers and moves on a cushion of air.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">View from the shuttle of the Visitor Center and some smaller telescopes below as we descend the mountain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And view from the road as I return to the campground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you ever have the chance to visit an Observatory, it is a very interesting tour. They also have night sky viewing tours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two days is not enough time at this State Park to see and do all there is to do. I will have to come back for a longer visit. This view from my site in the campground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are some hiking trails I did...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This view from the Old CCC trail of Limpia Canyon and Creek, source of water for the old Fort Davis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And there are many trails I didn't have time for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Birding is good here. There are a couple of bird blinds for watching birds at feeders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think this is a Ladder-backed Woodpecker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I do prefer to find my birds out and about. These White-winged Doves are roosting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I enjoyed watching the Acorn Woodpecker storing acorns in a telephone pole. First he places the acorn in a pre-drilled hole.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then he hammers it in...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I think he counts to make sure they are all there...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I believe they are Canyon Towhees...a new one to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Indian Lodge and Restaurant. Of course the restaurant was closed the days I was there.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So much to do, so little time. There's a long scenic drive through the Davis Mountains I didn't have time to do because I spent a half day touring at McDonald Observatory...one of the first stops along that drive.</span> </div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045015125309908883.post-476398888963590952015-12-26T07:56:00.003-08:002015-12-26T08:00:10.800-08:00Fort Davis National Historic Site<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fort Davis played a major role in the history of west Texas. From 1854 until 1891, troops stationed at the post protected emigrants, freighters, mail coaches, and travelers on the San Antonio-El Paso road. Today it is one of the best examples of a frontier military post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before you enter the fort grounds, you pass this example of an Apache campsite that was at this site. Apaches passed through this area raiding travelers and settlers during the period the fort was built and existed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you enter the Fort, you can hear one of the bugle calls which signaled the start or end of various activities at the fort. The sound helps you envision Fort Davis as an active military post. Click on the video.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two of the enlisted men's barracks have been restored. The first one houses the Visitor's Center, and the second has exhibits depicting what life was like for the soldiers in the 1870s and 1880s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Visitors Center has a short video about the fort, and an interactive museum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two all black Infantry regiments served here after the Civil War.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the second restored barracks building are life-sized dioramas of life of the foot soldiers and calvary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On this end of the building, the barracks are restored to how they appeared in 1884.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remains of other barracks and the restored Commissary in the background.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Commissary building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inside the Commissary, examples of supplies available to soldiers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Outside the Commissary, you can see the remains of four 2-story junior officer's quarters below the basalt cliffs on the eastern side of the Davis Mountains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Close-up of the basalt columns. The campground I was going to is on the other side of that mountain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the way to the Officer's Quarters, we pass the remains of the Post Chapel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two of these 2-story Junior Officers' quarters are in the process of being restored, but are not presently open.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking at the parade ground. The Visitors Center is on the left, and a long row of Officers' Quarters on the right. In the background is Sleeping lion Mountain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two of these Officers's homes are restored. This one was the Post Commander's home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Description of the rooms:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hall tree...this is for my brother who wants to see more pictures of "me" in my blog, lol.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grierson Master Bedroom. The portrait over the mantle is of the Commander's wife Alice and their two oldest sons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The home is decorated for Christmas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The back parlor with a music room on the right. Note the small "goose feather" tree on the table.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Behind each of the officer's houses was a separate kitchen. This one has been restored.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inside the kitchen/servant's quarters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Way behind the the Officers' Quarters you can see the post hospital building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Examples of those who became patients of the hospital.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Post Hospital. It is furnished and part of the tour, but I didn't go there because I wanted to get Thistle out for a walk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another restored Officer's Residence:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">View down Officers' Row.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thistle and I hiked a trail partway up this mountain to get some overviews of the fort.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You want to join us, don't you?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How the barracks looked in 1871.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The same view today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Officers' Row in 1885:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And that view today. You can see the Post Hospital on the left.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Parade ground with barracks on the right, and officers' residences on the left.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the tour I headed up into the Davis Mountains to the State Park Campground. That's the next post.</span></div>
Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045015125309908883.post-6235227703296503722015-12-23T12:15:00.001-08:002015-12-23T12:15:07.097-08:00Marfa Mystery Lights<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did not spend the night at Judge Roy Bean's Visitor Center, but instead paid for a PA park in Marathon with this view to the south of the Chisos Mountains in Big Bend National Park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From there I went to the Mystery Lights Viewing Center about 8 miles east of Marfa where you can spend the night in the large parking area and view the lights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you've never heard of the Marfa Mystery Lights, this sign explains a little about them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Viewing Center is pretty elaborate. It includes public restrooms, a viewing platform with binoculars, and a large park with walking paths and historical markers. There are also picnic tables and multiple trash cans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you can see, I arrived during the afternoon. So after choosing a parking place, Thistle and I walked the paths and learned more about this place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I learned about the various desert vegetation types in the Chihuahuan Desert. Thistle learned that little ground squirrels live here too. (Or some kind of furry critter) He also learned that some of these desert grasses have stickers that hurt his paws.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A lot of interesting information is presented at the Center.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I learned about the surrounding mountains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Paisano Plateau was formed by lava and ash from the volcano seen on the left that erupted 35 million years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cathedral Mountain can be seen in the Southeast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I learned that an Army Airfield was located here during World War II.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The remains of some of the Airbase buildings can be seen in the desert.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was information about the town of Marfa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While we were walking, I picked up a large bagful of trash that was blowing around in the park and deposited it in one of the available trash cans. You gotta wonder about people...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But back to the Marfa Lights...it was almost time for sundown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm watching for lights, but Thistle is watching for those little furry critters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was pretty sure the lights of sunset over the Chinati Mountains would be all that I would see, doubter that I am, lol.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But then a single light appeared high on a distant mountain. Then it disappeared and then appeared again...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then a second light appeared lower down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it disappeared...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then there were two.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And just one...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And three!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Five way down low!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More up high.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">People were coming and going from the Viewing Center to watch the phenomena. One other RVer was spending the night. </span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I watched them from my RV using my binoculars and camera zoom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just as the sign said, sometimes the lights were brighter, sometimes blended, or disappeared.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I watched for about two hours, and began to see a pattern.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All the lights seem to be following the same track.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Starting at the top where I saw the first light, the lights traveled diagonally down the mountain until they appeared at the bottom in a straight flat line.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sort of like car lights along a highway...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I looked on a map, and sure enough, Highway 67 comes north from Mexico over the mountains to Marfa. Hmmm... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Depending on the amount of zoom I used and the shake of my camera, the lights did look spooky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Disappearing lights could be cars dipping behind a hill or foliage and reappearing farther down the hill. Brighter lights could be when cars were facing directly in my direction. Of course that doesn't explain what the ranchers and Indians were seeing over 100 years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The few times I saw red lights I noticed they were traveling in the opposite direction up the mountain...like tail lights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Suddenly the mystery for me became why there was suddenly so much traffic in this remote area, coming north on Rte 67 on a Sunday evening? And why would they build an elaborate Viewing Center for people to come watch car lights?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The darker it got, the eerier the lights looked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So a few days later I asked the scientist at the McDonald Observatory about the lights. He confirmed that most lights seen nowadays are likely from car headlights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But he did acknowledge that atmospheric conditions can cause aberrations in light no matter what the light source...sort of like a mirage. So what we think we see, may not be what really is...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So as my friend Teresa recommends, don't try to analyze them...just enjoy the experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the morning I drove through the town of Marfa and stopped to take some pictures of their historic downtown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Palace Theatre was once the Marfa Opera House.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not sure what this building across from the theatre was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The historic Paisano Hotel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Built in 1930, t</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">he main customers of the El Paisano during the 1930s and 1940s were area cattle ranchers who came to Marfa to buy and sell their herds, and tourists who came to West Texas for the benefits of the dry desert air.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">In 1955, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">a Warner Bros film crew came to Presidio County to film </span><i style="color: #252525;">Giant</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">. The El Paisano Hotel served as base of operations for the months during which time the film was being shot in the surrounding countryside. 300 plus members of the cast and crew who included: </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dean" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="James Dean">James Dean</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Taylor" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Elizabeth Taylor">Elizabeth Taylor</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Hudson" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Rock Hudson">Rock Hudson</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal_Mineo" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sal Mineo">Sal Mineo</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chill_Wills" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Chill Wills">Chill Wills</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">, and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Withers" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Jane Withers">Jane Withers</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;"> among others </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">stayed at the El Paisano Hotel during filming.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This building now houses a bank and a restaurant, but I couldn't find any information about its origin as Brite Building, 1931.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Presidio County Courthouse</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back past the pink fire station to my parking place along the street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Marfa....the name itself evokes intrigue and mystery, don't you think?</span></div>
Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045015125309908883.post-35460206670346828822015-12-22T11:09:00.000-08:002015-12-22T11:09:16.199-08:00Judge Roy Bean, Langtry, Texas<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Judge Roy Bean Visitor Center in Langtry, Texas, not only dispenses travel information, but also supplies a healthy interpretation of the career of the legendary "Law West of the Pecos." Six dioramas tell Judge Bean's story, and the TxDOT maintains the historic site where he handed down his unique brand of justice, including the rustic saloon/courtroom, billiard hall, and the judge's "opera house," which was actually his home. The tour is free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It all began when there was a need for local law enforcement in the area of Pecos County where the Southern Railroad was being built. The railroad camps were a source of trouble. The nearest Court of Justice was in Fort Stockton 200 miles away. The solution was to appoint a saloon keeper, Roy Bean, as Justice of the Peace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Criminals were tried on the front porch of the saloon, which Bean named "The Jersey Lilly," after the famous English actress he admired, Lillie Langtry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The original Jersey Lilly burned in 1897.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was replaced by this building which is still being preserved behind the Visitor Center.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A portrait of Judge Roy Bean.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inside the saloon where Judge Roy Bean dispensed hard liquor and harsh justice. Notice the portrait of the actress Lillie Langtry. Although really named for a railroad executive, Bean wrote to the actress and told her the town was named after her, in hopes she would visit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gun rack? made with horseshoes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lillie Langtry finally agreed to come to visit the town, however she didn't make it there until 1904, several months after Bean's death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Billiard Hall adjacent to the saloon. On the right are the original legs of the billiard table. This was also the room where Judge Roy Bean died in 1903.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Judge Roy Bean only used one law book, rejecting all newer ones sent to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Judge's 1879 law book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The museum contains several artifacts from Bean's career, like this "</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">confiscated" </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">revolver. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Judge Roy bean's house was built behind the saloon. He called it an Opera House in hopes of enticing Lillie Langtry to come and perform there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also on the property is a Cactus Garden with an interpretive trail. Yucca, prickly pears, agaves, saguaro and more are labeled. The windmill is a rare 10-foot model P Eclipse Windmill sold in 1900 by Fairbanks, Morse and Company.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Judge Roy Bean Visitor Center is well worth a visit, and RVs are allowed to camp free in the parking area. There is also free Wifi.</span></div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045015125309908883.post-34205904964627205802015-12-20T08:15:00.000-08:002015-12-20T08:24:06.439-08:00Seminole Canyon State Park, TX<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Seminole Canyon...a place to satisfy many interests. Scenery, birding, hiking, history...both ancient and modern, geology, and more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The campground sits on a hilltop overlooking a desert vista.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My view looking south towards the Rio Grande River and Mexico...a view even more spectacular at sunset and sunrise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is a short birding trail that leads from the campground. Thistle and I used it to stretch our legs after we arrived.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We were rewarded with a Cactus Wren,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I don't know who this guy is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A bright male Cardinal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I found a couple of nests that look like Oriole nests. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And I thought this was an unusual one made of some other material.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Until I got it on the computer and realized it was a wasp nest!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Roadrunner was in the campground too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Greater Roadrunner</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Southern Pacific, the nation's second transcontinental railroad when completed in 1883, crossed what is now park property.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A few remnants of that era remain, like this bake oven used to feed the railroad workers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After lunch, Thistle and I hiked the Windmill Nature Trail. The windmill was used to pump water from a spring which we will pass on the trail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Looking down into a small side canyon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Look who's down there, a Pyrrhuloxia!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Under the trees is the natural spring used by early Indians, railroad workers, and ranchers throughout history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Remains of the pipes that carried water to the tank by the windmill can be seen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This Spotted Ground Squirrel was hanging out near the spring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The trail ends below the Visitor's Center.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Overlooking Seminole Canyon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The next day I took a guided tour into the canyon to see the Pictographs left by Archaic Indians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Maker of Peace" Bill Worrell created this sculpture as a tribute to the Desert Archaic people, whose pictographs adorn the canyon walls. In its right hand is a spear-thrower, a tool used by these people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The circle is a "sun catcher," and if you stand in the right place at sunrise, the sun shines through the circle as it rises over the mountains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just before sunset from my site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just after sunset.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I tried to get a shot of the incredible night sky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A partial moon setting over the mountain like a big red smile.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunrise was equally beautiful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our tour guide explains how the early people used the bulb of the Sotol plant for food. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The bulbs first had to be baked several days to rid them of a chemical that has a strong laxative effect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The result was a highly nutritious "energy bar" that tastes like dirt, lol.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We begin our tour by descending these stairs into Seminole Canyon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The rock shelters that are known as the Fate Bell Pictograph Site are located just below the Visitor Center, but cannot be seen from above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Approaching the two large rock overhangs that contain the Pictographs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is what we see in the first one. Our eyes are drawn to the lower ones...names of railroad workers.</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The rock sticking out below their names indicates the level of the floor at that time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The ranger explains that this is considered historical graffiti, and is left because of its historical value. Other more modern graffiti has been removed by park staff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The original Pictographs are higher up on the wall. The small pieces of rock beneath them indicate the floor level 4000-5000 years ago when the Pictographs were painted.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The figure on the left is a spitting panther.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Other animals, such as white-tailed deer are depicted as well.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I think I saw this critter out on the trail I hiked that afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Don't you think?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Moving on to the next rock shelter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are pictographs on the wall behind the split rock that are faded from weathering. They are located in a more exposed area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A couple came here in the 1920s-30s and carefully recorded (drew) these images while they could still be seen, as nothing much can be done to protect them from the weather.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the largest area and main site activity for the archaic people who lived here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">High above the canyon floor.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This large stone was believed to be a sort of work bench. Cuts can be seen, and a hole where grains or paint was ground. It is shiny and smooth from the oils of many hands.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The back of the shelter contains many Pictographs. Part of the floor has been excavated. The holes are pit ovens where things like the Sotol bulbs would have been baked. The black on the ceiling is from soot of many fires.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Woven mats and baskets were found here during the brief excavation. Excavation was halted to prevent damage to the site.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The lower wall is covered with Pictographs covering other Pictographs.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Pictographs above depict birds and other figures.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The figure in the middle of this symmetrical</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">panel resembles the statue outside the Visitor Center, with a head like a deer, and wings of a bird.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are also much older fossils of ancient sea creatures from the time this area was covered with a shallow sea....millions of years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This limestone rock was pitted by wind erosion I am told.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After lunch I took a long hike on the Rio Grande Trail to an overlook of Panther Cave, another Petroglyph site near where Seminole Canyon meets the Rio Grande River.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On the way there were birds...</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">what kind?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a White-crowned Sparrow.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A Meadowlark...I know not whether Eastern or Western.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A Loggerhead Shrike</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another Pyrrhuloxia.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A Black-throated Sparrow.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Panther Cave Overlook. On the right, around the corner is the Rio grande River with Mexico on the other side.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Panther Cave can only be accessed by boat.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Among the Pictographs here is a panther image nine feet long. I was hoping to see it with my binoculars or zoom lens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But it was not to be.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On the way back I took a picture of this bright red cactus fruit.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And some mysterious "kitty" tracks.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are other long trails, but I was tired.</span></div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045015125309908883.post-41964819157342594452015-12-19T14:09:00.002-08:002015-12-19T14:52:05.779-08:00Lost Maples State Park, TX<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There were still a few ghosts of color on the lost maples to let your imagination visualize how beautiful it was here just a month or so ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But even without the brightly colored leaves, it is a beautiful park. But first the ride over here on Rte 337 is worthy of mention for its own beauty...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A scenic road that snakes up and over and around the mountains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A route that motorcycle riders love. But I loved it too in my RV.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We passed ranches like Siesta Valley Ranch that let you know you are "Deep in the Heart of Texas." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Siesta Valley Ranch has a small herd of long-horned cattle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And a small herd of Bison.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More views of Siesta Valley Ranch...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are other ranches that have tall fences enclosing pronghorn antelope, deer and exotic game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm assuming they are associated with private hunt clubs. Feel sorry for the animals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Those are two coyotes hanging from the fenceposts. I'm guessing they were guilty of attacking livestock. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Crossing the Sabinal River.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Birdie and my campsites at Lost Maples State Park campground.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was sorry that Diana was not able to make it, but it meant that Birdie was persuaded to take the 6 mile hike with me. We hiked the East Trail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We start out on the East-West trail along one of the tributaries of the Sabinal River.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This part of the trail is rated "easy."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is where the East and West trails split. We take the East Trail to the right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The trail continues easy for a ways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But eventually it takes us to the top of that ridge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Passing a primitive camping area next to a pond.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some youth group must have made the tiles on this bench.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I like this one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How nice, a composting outhouse, before we start the climb.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This part of the trail is rated "challenging."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The warning...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Steep and rugged, with ankle-twisting rocks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Birdie is such a good sport.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It looked like we were near the top...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nope...there's a switchback.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting patterns in the rock....fossils or forces of water?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A little color.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Made it to the top!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The view from there. We can see the pond we passed down there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We walked about a half mile along the level ridge, and then we started down the other side...more rock scree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At last we reached the bottom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And came to a cool area known as the Grotto.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Water dripping here supports the growth of maidenhair ferns and other plants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another water crossing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A side trail brought us past this fungus and oak leaf arrangement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The side trail led to this unique limestone outcrop fondly nicknamed, "monkey rock."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Monkey Rock</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We were overtaken by two wolves taking this man for a run. Beautiful animals he said he got in Alaska. Glad Thistle didn't come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It wasn't all about the hike. I know you won't believe it, but Birdie kidnapped me and took me here and forced me to eat an apple turnover. Good thing we did the hike.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now I've left Birdie and other friends behind and am making my way farther west.</span></div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045015125309908883.post-80710720827473279172015-12-13T17:54:00.001-08:002015-12-13T18:48:19.485-08:00Bandera, Cowboy Capital of the World<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Birdie, Anita, and I are staying at Lake Medina Thousand Trails Park. This is my campsite beside Anita's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the campground is an old ranch house, the Spettel Riverside House, circa 1881.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Spettel was a cattleman, as were many in this area. The ranch and this house was beside the Medina River in an area now submerged by Medina Lake. The house was moved to this location when the Medina Dam was built to create the lake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I don't know if this barn was part of the ranch or not, as there isn't a sign, but it could have been.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Other side of the barn. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We decided to take a day trip to nearby Bandera, to learn more about what is called the Cowboy Capital of the World.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First things first...it was lunch time. We had lunch in the OST (Old Spanish Trail) restaurant, the oldest operating restaurant in Bandera County, established in 1921.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Inside was everything cowboy. We ate in the John Wayne room. Note the chuckwagon salad bar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wagon wheel chandelier, bedecked for Christmas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Their menu has a little history on it. You can read it better in the next picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We learned the John Wayne room was once a horse corral. The food was good. Birdie had the chicken fried steak, and Anita and I had some Tex-Mex selections.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The walls are lined with photos. I imagine this town was used in several Western movies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And the Saddle Bar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After lunch we walked around town. Western decor on all the lampposts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In addition to the rodeo cowboys, Bandera was also prominent as the starting point of the Great western Cattle Trail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This small park commemorates the Cattle Drive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Map of the Western Trail in the sidewalk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Brands of Bandera County</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Flags of the stops along the trail...Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Texas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fountain and murals on the public restroom building in the park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How Bandera got it's name:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mural depicting the cattle drive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And just to prove that Bandera is still the Cowboy Capital...three cowboys came riding by the County Courthouse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bandera became the county seat in 1856, and this courthouse was built in 1890.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Nativity Scene on the Courthouse lawn is entirely Texan, with cowboys coming to worship, longhorn cattle, wild turkeys and even an armadillo!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A monument honoring local cowboys:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When the town was first surveyed and platted, the center of town was what is now 11th Street, site of the famous 11th Street Bar. Today there are motorcycles outside, but some days there are also horses and pickup trucks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Note the swinging doors...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting siding on this building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We looked in some of the many western-themed shops.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some of the store names reflected Western humor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A store that has everything Texas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bandera has its own sidewalk of stars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some murals in an alley.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Bandera Methodist church was built in 1880 of handout limestone and oak timbers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another, more traditional, Nativity scene.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was interested in what this mansion and other buildings was behind the fence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Apparently it is a private hotel & restaurant that was once members-only. I googled it and learned a lot: <a href="http://www.bccourier.com/Archives/Community_detail.php?contentId=5135" target="_blank">The Whistle Jacket Inn</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The mansion</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Continuing our walk...some things that caught my eye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Birdie took Teresa and me birding at Mitchell Lake Audubon Center. It was a successful day with lots of cool finds. Near the Visitor's Center there were many birds around the feeders. This pretty female Cardinal was one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It wasn't all birds:</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teresa spotted this Banded Water Snake below a bridge on the way to the ponds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was pretty big, but harmless.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many species of waterfowl could be seen in the ponds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And a few more reptiles too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Yellow-bellied slider on a log.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This Ruddy Duck was pretty well camouflaged. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was difficult to sort out all the ducks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the White Pelicans stood out. There were dabbling ducks and diving ducks...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And flying ducks...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A pair of Buffleheads</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The White Pelican was busy scooping up goodies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was some discussion about whether this was a baby gator or a turtle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WE decided it was most likely the snout of a soft-shelled turtle like this one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then I thought I spotted a wild pig...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It showed itself to be a Bobcat instead....cool find!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He gave us several chances for photos before he disappeared.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And he left his scent as he sprayed the nearby bushes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back to the ducks. There was a Redhead among some Scaup.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Northern Shovelers</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rafting up and swimming in circles to stir up the bottom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Herons</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And a long line of White Pelicans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jockeying for position...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Incoming Pelican</span><br />
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"<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Excuse me, I believe you are in my space..."</span><br />
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"<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Move out of my way."</span><br />
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" <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teresa spied these Roseate Spoonbills, but they were too far to get a good photo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Turtle beach.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Black-neck Stilts</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This scene has several birds...can you find them?</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the far tree are several Black-crowned Night Herons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On a branch below them sits this Belted Kingfisher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Near the water is another Night Heron and some turtles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the foreground is a Spotted Sandpiper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Black-crowned Night Heron in flight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Great White Egrets in flight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think everybody's favorite was the Bobcat.</span></div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045015125309908883.post-85827768919669568972015-12-09T14:57:00.000-08:002015-12-09T14:57:05.240-08:00Where Dinosaurs Walked <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some of our group took a guided educational tour of Canyon Lake Gorge. Here we are set to go: L to R: Birdie, Diana, Anita, Teresa (Birdie's sister-in-law) and me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This aerial photo from their website (<a href="http://canyongorge.org/" target="_blank">canyongorge.org</a>) shows the gorge that was eroded 40 feet below the pre-flood terrain by the 2002 flood event, when flood waters went over Canyon Lake spillway (seen at the top) for the first time in its history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That tragic flood event unearthed a treasure of fossils of Early Cretaceous period that were deposited over 110 million years ago. Our tour begins with a bus ride to the top of the dam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A view of the spillway from above. Hiking in the gorge is only allowed on these tours with a docent guide. The guides are all volunteers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After descending to the spillway, we listen to the guide's description of what happened here and rules of hiking the gorge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just below the spillway we come to the first set of dinosaur tracks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This track belonged to a three-toed meat-eater.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our guide is tickling the belly of the imaginary Acrocanthosaurs, demonstrating how long the legs were.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dinosaurs were actually walking along the beach or mudflats of an ancient sea that covered much of Texas at the time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The photo above and this one are tracks of a second dinosaur, a plant-eater.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These huge boulders were washed and tumbled upside-down in the historic flood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The guide points out the geology of the aquifer that lies below the rocks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The porous limestone aquifer allows water to flow underground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are now walking on the remains of the ancient seabed. You can scoop up handfuls of tiny fossils of sea creatures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was an ancient bed of clams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teresa peers into the canyon. Water seeps into the canyon from the lake as well as from springs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Water entering the gorge from a nearby spring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are fish in the lagoons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A fish in the lagoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Water flows through cracks into the underground aquifer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This fossilized rock shows wave action on the ancient seabed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sandbag stepping stones have been placed to make crossing the water easier and safer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Water has disappeared into the aquifer and will reappear below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like this...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking down the gorge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another view.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The light colored rock is evidence of recent erosion and landslide....one reason why entry into the gorge is only by guided tour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our trail goes into the woods a little way. This landscape is nothing like what was here when it was at the edge of the sea. There would have been some palm-like trees here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are standing on a fault line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Kingfisher flew through the gorge...can you see it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then he flew again and perched next to this colorful sumac.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fossils of tiny sea animals...I forgot what kind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The lower layer here is rich with fossils. We got a chance to do our own fossil hunting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First some education about what to look for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And how to identify what we find.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then we spread out to see what we can find.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is not a fossil, but it was pretty cool to find a flower growing in this harsh environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Searching for fossils...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of the fossil finds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our guide leads the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the fossil imprint of an ancient crustacean, perhaps a lobster-like creature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A pretty large lobster...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the end of the tour were more rocks imbedded with tiny fossilized sea creatures. Our guide told us of another nearby site where we could go to see more dinosaur tracks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So the next day we went to The Heritage Museum of the Texas Hill Country. <a href="http://theheritagemuseum.com/" target="_blank">theheritagemuseum.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a museum where a docent explains the exhibits inside, then sends us outside to view the dinosaur tracks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A large roof has been built over the tracks to help preserve them from the elements. More than 350 dinosaur tracks were uncovered here when a developer was in the process of building an RV park on the site. Experts were called in and work was halted on the project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dinosaurs all seemed to be walking in straight parallel lines...likely following the shoreline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Educational tours for school groups are also scheduled here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This line diagonal line was believed to be made by a large snail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This area is still being developed, but more dinosaur tracks can be seen...so we followed the trail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More dinosaur tracks. These are still filled with dirt or water, but can be easily located.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In this exhibit outside the museum kids of all ages can practice uncovering fossils like an archaeologist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our group: Diana, Birdie, Mary Jane, Colleen, Anita, and me.</span></div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045015125309908883.post-68025594925056955352015-12-07T09:26:00.001-08:002015-12-07T19:14:05.609-08:00Gruene, Texas on Market Day<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Playing with my Texas friends in the historical town of Gruene (pronounced "green"): The play on words is noted in many places, including the "Gruene Beans" I had for lunch at the Gristmill Restaurant. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I arrived in Texas Hill Country on Thursday, December 3rd, on a beautiful crisp day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our get-together is on Canyon Lake, at Lake Pointe RV Resort. Thistle and I checked out the path to the kayak launch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then I checked out the lake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first few mornings were frosty,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With pretty foggy sunrises over the lake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But the days warmed up beautifully. There is a nice walking trail around the point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">RVing friends Colleen, Birdie, and Diana arrived, and all the people and dogs got walked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On Saturday we took a day trip to Gruene. It was Market Day...and a popular tourist destination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We strolled through the vendor section, admiring all the arts and crafts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then it was on to explore the historic town with German roots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Post Office was there to hand cancel your mail. I didn't have my mail with me. The building behind the tent is one of the historic buildings in town.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More history...not sure what this was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">People sitting in front of the old Mercantile, being entertained by a couple of guitars and singers in the street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gruene's Dance Hall is still in the entertainment business.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Texas plates nailed to the floor in the entry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Inside the dance hall. Benches and tables are moved out of the way for dancing. A band was practicing for Saturday night's entertainment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Photo op by the stage: Birdie, me, Diana, Colleen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The walls were lined with photos of famous singers and entertainers who have performed here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Saloon area...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More performers...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Continuing our walking tour...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now a Bed and Breakfast, once the town founder's home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">About the town's founder, Henry D. Gruene:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The memorial, commemorating the cattle drive and the gristmill mentioned on the historical plaque.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">About the Mercantile:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The old Mercantile building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The old gristmill/cotton gin burned in 1922, but a large restaurant was built around and incorporating the surviving brick walls. We had lunch here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Upside down Christmas tree hanging inside the Gristmill Restaurant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lunch...you can see parts of the remaining brick walls of the gristmill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Creative wood paneling on the walls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the view from the top floor overlooking other parts of the restaurant and the Guadalupe River below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These stairs lead down to the river.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Walking through other parts of the restaurant...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A stone fireplace graces each of the dining rooms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Outdoor seating...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Notice the Texas Star in the sidewalk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Outdoor patio behind the Gruene River Grille.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Texas humor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Interesting brickwork.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The floor:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The crowds...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I thought the concept of Bacon Soda was interesting, but since I have about given up both bacon and soda, I didn't try it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A large assortment of Texas themed Christmas ornaments...probably made in China, lol.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was unique...a Texas Cowboy Santa!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For my biking friends...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The hay bales were placed to separate vehicle traffic from pedestrian traffic. It was partly successful...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another interesting brick sidewalk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Which led to some interesting shops...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Tipsy Gypsy caught my attention...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I found her inside in a Tilt-a-Whirl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On the way back to the campground, we drove the River Road and saw some of the aftermath of recent bad floods here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Although it looks calm here, the river is still high and flowing fast, and much debris can still be seen hanging from the trees. Piles of tree limbs and other stuff are being bulldozed into piles for removal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But our flag still waves!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When we got back, another RVing friend, Anita had arrived with her amazing Slingshot!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More of our get-together in the next post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day with part of my family at Unicoi State Park in northern Georgia. Left to right: Daughter Jennifer, granddaughter Rebecca, me, granddaughter Ashley, and son-in-law Tony. Also with us were friends Dan, Celeste, and daughter Alexis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I arrived a day early. This is Jennifer and Tony and friends getting set up in our "buddy site."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ashley and Alexis setting up their portable Eno hammocks.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Enoing is fun!</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After they were all set up we went for a hike around the lake. There are exercise stations along the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rebecca and Celeste doing the Brown Thrasher.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Need a laugh? Watch them on video:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The girls brought their Eno hammocks with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Getting in them was a little trickier here.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oops!</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A little robin greeted us.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Doing the Turtle. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Photo op: Rebecca with her momma.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Me and Thistle, Rebecca and Jennifer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tony and Jen</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This exercise looked like bowing down....so Tony obliged to be the object of their worship.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunset Thanksgiving eve. I've a lot to be thankful for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Evening rays on the mountains that still show a little fall color.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hot dogs on the grill and a campfire.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This Pileated Woodpecker was on my early morning hike with Thistle.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After breakfast, while the turkey was cooking we all took a hike to Anna ruby Falls.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Visitor Center for the falls which are in the adjoining Oconee National Forest.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We didn't really need the hiking sticks...the trail was paved most of the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jennifer and Rebecca checking out the spring water that seeps out of the ground here.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The trail follows Smith Creek up to the falls. Lots of swift water flowing.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A good place for selfies...Jennifer and Celeste.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Selfies can get dangerous. Good thing they weren't standing on the edge of a cliff.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Family photo on a stone bench.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rebecca's hair matches the fall leaves. You can get a glimpse of Anna Ruby Falls up ahead...the white streaks on the left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Approaching the falls.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About the two waterfalls and how they were named.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Smith Creek starts at the base of the waterfalls and flows about 550 miles into the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers to the Gulf of Mexico.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many photo ops here.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some people like taking selfies...I like taking pictures of people taking selfies, lol.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tony, Ashley, and Rebecca</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alexis and Ashley</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Resting: Tony, Ashley, Alexis, Dan, Celeste, Rebecca, and Jennifer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3546 gallons a minute or over 5 million gallons a day flow over the falls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think this is the best waterfall of the year for me, in terms of water flow.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Crockpot Thanksgiving! Stuffing, gravy, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, sweet potato souffle, green bean casserole....and more.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After all that food it was time for another hike. Jennifer, Celeste, and I skipped the nap and hiked a little ways on the Smith Creek Trail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time to turn around...the sun is about to set below the mountain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unfortunately no gold was found in this sample that Celeste scooped from the creek.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll leave you with the sights and sounds of the majestic Anna Ruby Falls.</span></div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045015125309908883.post-51511241574547723082015-11-20T12:06:00.000-08:002015-11-21T10:25:31.865-08:00On Ocean Pond<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm on the road again, but not too far. I stopped to visit a friend who shared this beautiful location with me in the Osceola National Forest. I camped two nights to wait for a storm front to pass. My site by the boat ramp, but too windy before the storm to paddle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But look what the storm blew in....robins, galore!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wild turkeys too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But the morning I planned to leave....look at the picture God painted for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That water was calling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So Thistle and I went out for an early morning paddle before time to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lots of people camp here to fish, but I was looking for birds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thistle is on the lookout...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some of the campsites along the lake. This is a free National Forest Campground...one of those hidden treasures. There is another campground on the other side of the lake that has more amenities and a fee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is my friend Chris's campsite. She posted a picture on Facebook that drew me here. We haven't met up in several years, so it was good to catch up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I was taking her picture, she was also taking mine! So I snatched it...thanks, Chris.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She has a great view from her site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On we go...what's up ahead, Thistle?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A pretty Bufflehead! (On edit, my birding mentor, Birdie, has guided me to the correct ID...it's a Hooded Merganser! They have a similar head, and are just as cool to find.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And some Coots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A gorgeous Wood Duck!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There were two pair of Wood Duck, but my boat was bouncing too much to get another picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What else?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A Great Blue Heron in a Cypress tree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And finally, back by the boat ramp, an American Kestrel! I wasn't expecting him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And now I am really back on the road again, somewhere in Georgia. Chris took this photo while I was hooking up the car. See you down the road!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did you know that Sportsman's Cove in McIntosh is part of the Great Florida Birding Trail? It is...check out the website for more information:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And fall is a great time to be here. The weather is great and migratory birds are flying in for the winter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More great news for Sportsman's Cove...the new owners have secured the permit necessary to clear out floating plants and open up the canal for easier access to Orange Lake. That should happen soon. But the water is up, and we can paddle past the "stuff" today to see what's out there. Let's go!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pretty yellow daisies line both sides of the canal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking back at Sportsman's Cove RV park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oops, I scared up a bunch of Ibises.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of the floating stuff is pretty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The canal opens up for some calm paddling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Red-shouldered hawk is calling to his mate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A beautiful day for a calm float.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A duck takes flight...many species of ducks winter here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Getting ready to plant more "stuff," lol.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of the underwater plants get tangled on the paddles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hopefully they will be able to eliminate some of that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other areas are clear and easy paddling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Great Blue Heron</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's easy to get disoriented out here at water level.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you do get confused, just look for the McIntosh water tower to find your way back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">McIntosh water tower.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Follow the open water back in that direction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Until you come to the canal leading to Sportsman's Cove.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't forget to look up or you'll miss some birds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Incoming immature Little Blue Heron</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He's got his eye on something...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Got it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gulp!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Birds are fun to watch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To the boat ramp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sportsman's Cove...it's not just for fishing. Invite your birding friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's been a year since I was here at Sportsman's Cove, but most things haven't changed. The sunrises are still beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My friend Red, the Red-shouldered hawk, still greets me every morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are some important and encouraging changes going on, however. New owners have taken over the park, and though there is much to do that will take time and money, they have been hard at work cleaning it up and starting to make repairs and improvements. They are young and eager to make Sportsman's Cove the Resort it's named for. And they have already become Gator Fans!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thistle and I have been enjoying our walks around town as folks have been decorating their yards for fall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We've been visiting friends too. This is MaryAnn's beautiful home on the hill above McIntosh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And this is MaryAnn with one of her adorable fur babies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My friend Donna, from <a href="http://womenrv.com/forum" target="_blank">womenrv.com/forum</a> came to visit for the weekend of McIntosh 1890 Festival. (Notice the new level sites)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I gave Donna the walking tour of this historic town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of these old buildings are still lost in the 1890's...This is the Depot and the old Carriage House.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then there are things lost in other decades...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I took Donna to see some other historic places in the area too. We had lunch in Micanopy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Colorful shops in Micanopy.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings State Historic Site. Rawlings, of course, was the Pulitzer Prize Winning author of <i>The Yearling</i>, who did much of her writing here in Cross Creek.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Artists were having a Paintout in Evinston at the Wood Swink Store and Post Office....oldest operating Post Office in Florida.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We saw some Sand Hill Cranes in an Evinston field.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">View of Sportsman's Cove before it filled up for the Festival weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good news for fishermen...there is plenty of water in the canal for boats to dock at the marina.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good news for birders...the birds are coming back closer to the campground. These are juvenile Ibises.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A pretty place to sit and watch the birds.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Judging by the crowds, the Festival was a huge success!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Donna and I helped out with Bible Face Painting at the Christian Church for an hour in the afternoon. We had a steady stream of happy little faces.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thistle stayed home, but there were plenty of pets enjoying the Festival.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then it was over. We enjoyed another spectacular sunrise...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The crowds and the vendors all cleared out, leaving the town quiet and peaceful again. All the little creatures felt safe to come out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tufted Titmouse</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll be here another couple weeks for doctor appointments, but unless I find something really interesting to do, this will be my blog post from McIntosh for this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nan and I crossed the Ohio River into Tennessee at the little Cave-in-Rock ferry crossing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only a few minutes wait for the free ferry that operates all day long. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our next stop was at Loretta Lynn's Ranch in Hurricane Mills, TN. The campground there accepts Passport America discounts, which helps make the tour cost affordable. This is one of Loretta's former tour buses on display outside the museum. There is another one in the museum that you can tour the inside of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The museum alone is worth the price of the tour. It is full of personal, family, and career memorabilia and Loretta has hand written notes on much of it explaining its significance. No photos were allowed inside the buildings, so you'll have to go see for yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is also a replica of Loretta Lynn's childhood home which also has some original objects such as the butter churn that Loretta used doing one of her childhood chores. A dress that belonged to her sister and was worn by Cissy Spacek in the movie is hanging on a clothesline inside. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The original home is still standing and can be toured in its original location in Butcher Holler. I believe the guide said Loretta's brother owns that home and opens it for tours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is also a replica of Coal Mine No. 5, the mine where her father worked, and later her husband, Mooney.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Loretta and her husband Mooney bought the property in the 1970s. It included a circa 1890s plantation house and this old mill and dam, both of which they restored.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Across from the mill you can see Loretta's plantation home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The tour includes the inside of the house...still furnished with its original furnishings and 1970s style decor, although a more modern kitchen was added on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Loretta Lynn still lives on the property in a smaller house she had built in back of this one. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She still does about 70 tours a year, and in fact had just returned from tours in Oklahoma and Washington, DC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We enter the house through the door on the left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Behind the small building straight ahead is Loretta's current residence, built atop a filled-in swimming pool. Her current tour bus was parked outside which is how the tour staff knows when she's home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The tour includes all the downstairs rooms and is accompanied by personal stories about how it was decorated and what life was like within. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The horse barn. The Ranch operates as a Dude Ranch with trail rides, and also offers kayak tours of the river. There are hiking trails too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As we were leaving, we could get a better view of the newer house where Loretta lives when she is here. It was a fun tour, and well worth the visit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nan and I traveled some forest roads into other wilderness areas. We saw 3 deer on what we found out was the first day of hunting season here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We stopped here to follow a trail to Burden Falls.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But we gave up after a short way when the trail petered out. It was not the right trail we decided.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And came to a place that is probably Burden Falls with water in the Spring. It was not well marked though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another brown sign directed us to Bell Smith Springs, which has a nice picnic area and a trail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> A little farther on we passed Griffin Cemetery, circa 1891. The widow wrote to her husband's debtors and gave them his new address...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please send your collection notices to him....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After getting directions we found a trailhead to Indian Kitchen in Lusk Creek Canyon. It was a mile and a half into the wilderness to a sharp bend in the creek and a place where archaeological evidence of prehistoric habitation by Native Americans has been found.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The trail is more frequently used by horses and had a lot of muddy places to navigate around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But signs kept encouraging us to press forward.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we got to the end of the trail there was a wide place and rope to tie up your horses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You had to continue on foot to the bottom of the canyon and creek level to Indian Kitchen. Nan waited while I did that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About 8 miles from Garden of the Gods is another wilderness area known as Pounds Hollow. A wonderfully scenic trail, Rim Rock National
Recreation Trail leads around the rim of a rock
escarpment, hence its name. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We did not have the benefit of a map, so unfortunately we missed a very interesting portion of this trail. I will have to make another visit to this area. We followed the trail along the ledges on the left side of the trail and came back the same way, thus missing the Ox-Lot Cave and other features at the base of the cliffs. </span></div>
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remnants of a stone wall built by prehistoric Native
Americans seen to the left of the steps built by the CCC. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The wall was built about 1500 years ago and designed to block the only accessible route to the top of the bluff. The rocks used had to be carried from the creek far below at the base of the bluffs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An old gnarly cedar tree along the trail. Some trees here are several hundred years old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sandstone bluffs...</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trail along the edge of the bluffs.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another weather-worn cedar tree.</span> </div>
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unique formation was known as ‘the Pounds,’ an old
English term meaning “some sort of enclosure.” This
is how the valley lying to the east got its name, Pounds
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Steps lead down between the rocks to the base of the cliffs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking back at the sheer cliffs.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A maze of sorts...</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And we ended up at the same place.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We could see that the trail continued to the base of the cliffs and beyond, but we had no information where it went from there or how long or strenuous the trail was, so we decided to go back the way we came.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking down. Wish we'd known about the cave and other formations to see down there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We did know about Pounds Hollow Lake and we drove there next.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We found out more information later after from this website: <a href="http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5106385.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5106385.pdf</a></span></div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045015125309908883.post-11209811736773189562015-10-03T09:32:00.001-07:002015-10-03T09:32:02.939-07:00Garden of the Gods, Shawnee National Forest<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Garden of the Gods is just one of 7 unique Wilderness areas in Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois. We stayed in a National Forest Campground here while exploring the area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A developed trail leads to and among the most prominent rock formations near the campground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Visitors, especially young ones enjoy scrambling on the rocks. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't do much rock-scrambling any more, so pretty much stayed on the trail.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The fascinating rock formations are the result of millions of years of erosion forces upon the sandstone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A little fall color...</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking out over the Shawnee National Forest</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the middle of the picture you can just make out other rock formations in the distance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nothing like a crisp fall day for enjoying a hike.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Note the tree in the center growing atop the rock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This formation is named Devil's Smokestack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can you see the wedged boulder about 2/3 from the top.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are rumors that Bigfoot has been seen in these parts...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We stayed at Fox Ridge State Park in Illinois for a few days and did day trips to points of interest nearby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The campground had many nice hiking trails.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They did my new Fitbit proud as Thistle and I logged over 14,000 steps and 27 flights of stairs in one day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some flora along the trail...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was a little fishing pond with a trail around it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunrise one morning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nan and I visited Abraham Lincoln's father's farm in southern Illinois, a state historic site. This is the Visitor Center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Replicas of the farm buildings have been recreated on their original sites.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a living museum with costumed volunteers and hands-on activities, especially for school children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were twice lucky. Bus loads of school children were expected in an hour, and we got to tour before they arrived. But costumed volunteers were setting up educational activities for them that we got to see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A replica of Thomas Lincoln's log cabin, built based on photos and information about the original.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Photo of the original cabin in the late 1800s. What happened to it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's the sad story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The kids will learn candle making.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And hand laundry using lye soap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abraham Lincoln never lived here because his father bought this farm and built the cabin after Lincoln was grown and married, living in Springfield. But he visited here often.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the museum we learned a lot about Lincoln's relationship with his family and this period of time in his life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thomas Lincoln's cabin was simple, traditional, and sparsely furnished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's a breakdown of the Lincoln family in the 1840s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some historical information about Thomas Lincoln's life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More about Thomas Lincoln...</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And about Abraham Lincoln's stepmother, Sarah Bush Johnston.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abraham Lincoln took care of his father, making sure he was financially secure.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is another demonstration farmstead on the property for comparison. The Sargent farm was located about 14 miles away, but the buildings were moved here to be part of the museum. Thomas Lincoln probably never knew this distant neighbor, but since Sargent was a judge, as a lawyer, Abraham likely did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Contemporary to Thomas Lincoln, but a more modern farm and farming methods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peeking inside the Sargent home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the comparison.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can see the original cabin, later kitchen to the left of the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nan seems to be attracted to farmers lately, and she found one in the museum. But alas, since it was 1845, this one doesn't have a tractor. (Only a few people will understand this, lol...)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The school children arrived and were putting on period costumes to practice living in the 1840s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just some pretty wildflowers outside the museum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About 2 miles away is the Shiloh Church and cemetery where the elder Lincoln's were buried. Abraham Lincoln visited here just before his inauguration as President.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Lincoln Memorial...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And their graves???</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of Sarah's daughters is also buried here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This mass grave of cholera victims around the same period of time is interesting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of those native cedar trees are still here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now you are led to believe that these are the gravesite of Thomas and Sarah Lincoln, but we found another possible location... see the tall spire in the distance between the two cedar trees?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It seems like they are not too sure of the exact location, since the original grave was only marked with a wooden slab or small stone, so the only thing we know for sure is that they are buried somewhere in this cemetery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And what it looked like in 1920...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also visited the Courthouse in nearby Charleston, on the site of a previous courthouse where Lincoln attended court as a circuit-riding lawyer. Also in Charleston is the site of the famous Lincoln-Douglas Debate. My camera battery died...so no pictures of those places.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nan and I found another small town with murals in Arcola, Illinois. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nan had been here before, years ago, and remembered it as the birthplace of Raggedy Ann and Andy's creator, John Gruelle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, a sagging economy brought an end to the Raggedy Ann museum Nan remembered. It has been closed for several years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nan peeks in the window of the old museum. They used to have a Raggedy Ann Festival every year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Poor Raggedy Ann is all alone in the deserted museum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But there's a mural remembering them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It tells the story of Raggedy Ann's creation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is Amish Country. We went into Yoder's Homestead Shop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where Dodger greets all the customers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dodger talked me into buying some homemade peanut butter dog treats for Thistle. He offered to demonstrate how much dogs love them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We found reminders of Raggedy Ann's heritage here...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, they do make brooms here too. Lots of corn grown in this part of the country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It wasn't the advertising mural but the painted windows that peaked my interest in this wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We wandered through an antique shop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Notice the brick street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A mural representing the Amish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And a mural for children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Route 45 goes right through Arcola.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And this is the Hippie Memorial!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The tall section reflects the Hippie generation...1960s-1980s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bottle cap art...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A mural reflecting Arcola's Hispanic population.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We found Raggedy Ann and Andy again at the Tourist Information Center.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Part of the broom collection inside the Information Center.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They had brooms for sale too. Nan bought a new whisk broom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also did a driving tour of the surrounding Amish area...ate in their restaurants, visited quilt shops, etc.</span></div>
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045015125309908883.post-59365912598911118622015-10-01T17:02:00.001-07:002015-10-01T17:03:41.909-07:00Ligonier, Indiana Murals<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">When we rode through Ligonier on the way to the Apple Festival during the recent get-together, I noticed some interesting murals on the buildings in this town. So Carol and I decided to return to Ligonier and check them out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, many of the stores are empty, but attempts at Urban Renewal are apparent all along the main street.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The many murals depict scenes from the town's history...beginning with the Native Americans who lived here first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These murals honor some of the town's "fathers," prominent businessmen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Notice the clock...you will see it later. It was donated to the town in honor of Isaac Cavin's father.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We came across the Solomon Mier house in town.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Ligonier Train Depot...1858?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Boy & Lamb statue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tug of War</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Horse Thief!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Health of Ligonier</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Solomon Mier House is now a Bed and Breakfast. He once owned the Carriage company in town. Notice the carriage in the carport.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And remember that old clock? It is in a little park at one end of town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pretty little triangular park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We went one block off the main street and went back the other way. Many circa 1800s homes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A mural inside the Post Office.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More murals on the backside of the Main Street buildings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">War Memorial mural</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And one on the Fire Station</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They make marshmallows here!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another little park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The official sidewalk greeter...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Ligonier Historical Museum is housed in an 1889 Jewish Temple.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Too bad we missed the Marshmallow Festival!</span><br />
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Lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11603666793316136410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045015125309908883.post-28101072286097642902015-09-26T12:41:00.001-07:002015-09-26T12:41:35.312-07:00France Park, Cass County, Indiana<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This large county park has many natural and historic features to enjoy, as well as 7 miles of trails to get to them. So a hike was in order for the afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Limestone was mined here forming the quarries by the Casparis Stone Company (1892-1927) and the France Stone Company (1927-1967). In 1943, workers struck a spring that filled the</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Old Kenith Stone Quarry overnight, leaving equipment and tools at the bottom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some rail cars and tracking still rest at the bottom of the quarry which is popular with scuba divers. We hiked a trail along the top of those cliffs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">View from the Quarry Trail. There is a swimming beach at one end and you can launch kayaks there too. The Ranger told me there are 7-foot Sturgeon in the quarry. Yikes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A place to sit and look for sturgeon below...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These people are lined up to zipline across the quarry. (My auto-correct wanted me to say "biplane.")</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whee!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The trail continues around the quarry and below the cliffs on the other side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This 10-acre prairie was established with perennial grasses in 1991. Another trail surrounds the prairie and there is a wildlife viewing tower. There is also a constructed wetlands which is used as a method of treating wastewater. I did not get that far in my wanderings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Wabash and Erie Canal runs through the park. Its main use was to transport the stone mined at the quarry. Canal boats were pulled by mules along the towpath, which is now another walking trail. The canal's operations ceased when the railroad began its operations throughout the area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Workers are setting up for a fall-themed wedding in the park...pumpkins and fall leaves make up the decor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The wedding will be held beside this waterfall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During the 1800's France Park was home to a large community of people, primarily immigrants from Italy and Ireland employed by the canal and the quarry operations. This oven was used as a community resource for anyone needing to bake their bread.</span><br />
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