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[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Very cool shots Geo! Thanks for sharing sir.

 

[mikewint]

Yup, day-fin-ite-ly a forumite, birds of a feather and all that stuff.......................

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Just some more stuff from the mine during the last month or so.
wind sculpture

WOW!! You're very own "Tonka" toys, you sure got some very big mothers there.

Thanks guys. Some photos from my trip to Arizona.

That shot of the church also reminds me of the one in the movie "Guns of San Sebastian" with Anthony Quinn playing a priest. Long time ago though.

 

[evangilder]

Those Komatsus are huge! I remember seeing them in one of the large open-pit copper mines in Arizona. Those things will definitely move some earth. Neat stuff.

 

[fubar57]

Might not be much in this small town but we do have the world's largest this.

It's a tree crusher built by Letourneau. One was shipped to Vietnam during the war to clear right of way but tests proved it was only marginally effective in water(?) and it was what some people might call a target.

Geo

I'll get a couple of better ones in the summer.

 

[Matt308]

 

[Crimea_River]

Good stuff Geo.

 

[Gnomey]

Yeah, a rather large target. Nice shots!

 

[fubar57]

Got home today after a week away at work and found these pix in my email. My son is visiting his oldest sister in Victoria B.C. and they got these tattoos as a tribute to dear old Dad's insanity to all things Spitfire. Not quite the most accurate depictions but I think they are awesome. Youngest daughter wants one now. (Cellphone pictures and I tried to blow them up without too much distortion.)Son's is on the left.

Geo

 

[fubar57]

OK....it's a given that I'm pretty hopeless with a computer. Images properly re-sized.

(Shepherd is my middle name)

Geo

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

That last one looked like it could've been PAINFUL.

 

[Matt308]

Tattoos. When they get older the Spitties will become a color blurred cross and the wording will be an illegible form of "leopard" or "preferred". Believe me, I know this first hand.

 

[pbfoot]

A girl I know just got one with just the word Gemini , several people thought said genius which is far from the truth

 

[Matt308]

My Dad, a professed badass Marine with the provenance to support it, had a US Marine bulldog put on his bicep with his moniker below it "Punchy". Believe me he deserved such a moniker.

Unfortunately, nowadays is says "Lunchy".

 

[fubar57]

My latest trip to work.
The Rockies

My awesome car in the Rockies

Willow Creek coal mine

On the way to work I pass through Chetwynd, B.C., the chainsaw carving capital of the world

Lots of broken dreams on Highway 97

Eagle waiting it's turn at a dead moose

Dinner stop every 11th day

Cottonwood at dusk

 

[fubar57]

A few more from my last trip.

Geo

 

[fubar57]

A few more pictures from the mine.Hopefully, this will be my last month here.
Hoe broke down, waiting for mechanics in Phase 2.

Sunrise.

Southern view from Phase 3.

I usually drive with my windows open.

Failed attempt with the self-timer in my office.

Phase 4 across the valley.

Reminded me of ancient stone paintings of a road runner and a hummingbird. Or maybe the meds kicked in.

Geo

 

[Crimea_River]

Beauty stuff Geo.

 

[oldcrowcv63]

Man my 4 year old son would LOVE a ride it that! Come to think of it so would I!

In cases like this, I think we are ALL 4 year old sons here except for the ladies who are probably 5 or older... (woman mature faster than men or so I've been told).

 

[meatloaf109]

The house with the green roof looks to be a "Sears" catalog home. Back in the early days of the last century the Sears and Roebuck company offered a mail order program designed to make home ownership easier for the working man, every other week you would recieve all the materials you needed, (Including nails!) to complete that particular step. I think there were five types, and the materials were the finest hard woods. I've been in a couple over the years, and wish I had one!