Day 112 - Photo A Day Challenge - 4-21-2012
Apr 21, 2012 02:21:08 #
Welcome to Day 112 .. and the last week of our dedicated challenge ! .. This has been the longest month of all in my opinion. I'll be glad to see it go LOL ...
It's Story Telling Saturday .. so let's see what stories reached out and grabbed your attention this week.
My story is about the lengths people will go to in order to Beat the Heat. It was in the upper 90's here today. I still needed to get some photos so I took a drive up Mt. Lemmon because it's usually 30 degrees cooler up there.
It turned out to be a balmy 67 once I got above 7000 ft above sea level. Perfect weather.
It's Story Telling Saturday .. so let's see what stories reached out and grabbed your attention this week.
My story is about the lengths people will go to in order to Beat the Heat. It was in the upper 90's here today. I still needed to get some photos so I took a drive up Mt. Lemmon because it's usually 30 degrees cooler up there.
It turned out to be a balmy 67 once I got above 7000 ft above sea level. Perfect weather.
Turned out that Rose Lake was finally open
Hard to believe that there is a lake this high up in the mountains
Loved this reflection
with pretty flowering trees
Fishermen of all ages
Sunbathing lizzards
The path back to the car
The air is so thin up there I had to stop at a bench and rest a few minutes ... then I spotted this weird thing in the tree
Boulders as big as some houses
Slightly different angle of a pine tree
Apr 21, 2012 02:27:14 #
What a great escape your mountains are!! 90 degrees??? Only Hades goes to 90 degrees! No place in Alaska does. Anchorage summers are averaging 65-70....and thats hot for people here...they act like they are melting from the heat at 70-75...the sun is at a closer angle to the earth in the summert and its 24/7 sunlight.. but no one has AC....many cars dont even have AC. Anyway... I think 90 degrees would be so nice and cuddly warm! :-)
photogrl57 wrote:
Welcome to Day 112 .. and the last week of our ded... (show quote)
Apr 21, 2012 02:30:08 #
laskalass wrote:
What a great escape your mountains are!! 90 degree... (show quote)
Yeah try 105 in the shade on for size .. that is our normal summers .. and it's only spring
Apr 21, 2012 02:30:15 #
By the way that weird thing in the tree is called Tent caterpillers....they are the scourge of the orchards in sacramento valley of California where I grew up...they are the things of nightmares in my childhood. My Dad would light them on fire when he found them...and if they hatched out there would be hundreds of those horrid caterpillers all over the tree...devouring the leaves...and so many they would drop off the trees onto your hair. OOhhhhhhh... I hated those things!!!
photogrl57 wrote:
Welcome to Day 112 .. and the last week of our ded... (show quote)
Apr 21, 2012 02:31:11 #
[quote=laskalass]By the way that weird thing in the tree is called Tent caterpillers....they are the scourge of the orchards in sacramento valley of California where I grew up...they are the things of nightmares in my childhood. My Dad would light them on fire when he found them...and if they hatched out there would be hundreds of those horrid caterpillers all over the tree...devouring the leaves...and so many they would drop off the trees onto your hair. OOhhhhhhh... I hated those things!!!
Ewwwwwwww thank you for telling me .. I'll be sure to stay away from them
Ewwwwwwww thank you for telling me .. I'll be sure to stay away from them
Apr 21, 2012 02:31:49 #
Well I have lived here for 28 years so I would roast...but when I was a kid the summers in Cali were always triple digits...seems like we lived at the local pool all summer!
photogrl57 wrote:
quote=laskalass What a great escape your mountain... (show quote)
Apr 21, 2012 06:21:03 #
laskalass wrote:
Well I have lived here for 28 years so I would roa... (show quote)
Like you Lass, nobody has A/C around here but we are a bit warmer than you. We say that a good day at the beach is a day that you won't wear mittens there while sunbathing your forehead
Apr 21, 2012 07:00:46 #
Here is a personal story told in two pics. Happened just this past week too..
The day before ''Comin' Home''
Comin' Home
Apr 21, 2012 08:53:59 #
Apr 21, 2012 09:01:22 #
Bevbled wrote:
A short walk in Hitchcock woods
Looks like good walking weather...nice shots.
10'' of snow north of us here in Québec...I'm walking anyway.
Apr 21, 2012 09:27:12 #
Roadrunner wrote:
Looks like good walking weather...nice shots.
10'' of snow north of us here in Québec...I'm walking anyway.
Bevbled wrote:
A short walk in Hitchcock woods
Looks like good walking weather...nice shots.
10'' of snow north of us here in Québec...I'm walking anyway.
It is ..You must love the cold to live there ..I like it warm myself
Apr 21, 2012 10:19:01 #
The rebuilding of Jackson's Sawmill Covered Bridge. The bridge was washed out in a flood nearly 30 years ago. I scanned the original negatives and had to do alot of PP to make them look this good. I haven't scanned them all in yet. I have about hundred negatives. I have some of the cranes lifting it up, the Amish team rebuilding it and more of the debris field after it washed out (siding 15 feet up in the trees). I think you get the story. Some of the boards were given to a local craftsman and he made small bird sculptures out of the pieces. I still have a couple of the birds.
The original bridge
Looking through to the farm on the other side
After the flood
During the rebuild
The old foundation
The new foundation
They set up a light to discourage theft and vandalism
The frame on the new foundation
On the right side, a neighbor observing the progress
the rebuilt bridge back on its foundation.
Apr 21, 2012 10:21:22 #
Roadrunner wrote:
Here is a personal story told in two pics. Happened just this past week too..
p1 Glad you're back safe and sound. Thanks for giving us all a "mini vacation". Beautiful sand.
Apr 21, 2012 10:22:41 #
jgroff2506 wrote:
The rebuilding of Jackson's Sawmill Covered Bridge. The bridge was washed out in a flood nearly 30 years ago. I scanned the original negatives and had to do alot of PP to make them look this good. I haven't scanned them all in yet. I have about hundred negatives.
p.1 I like this story. In the late 30s, similar happened here.
Apr 21, 2012 10:23:55 #
Morning, All. Wow. Really slept way too late, but felt great. A story
have to think about it.
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