Gettysburg Remembrance Day

The Muffled Drum’s Sad Roll Has Beat
The Soldier’s Last Tattoo.
No More On Life’s Parade Shall Meet
That Brave and Fallen Few.


Found on a plague at the Gettysburg Cemetery during Rembrance Day. 3,000 luminaries were lit in honor of the soldiers buried at this hollowed ground where Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address.

It's a Good Year!

It's a Good Year!

And at the other end of spectrum, a dump truck that has seen better days.

Fall Color

I need to post some fall color and needless to say some water to go with it. Enjoy!

Oktoberfest Booth

I had a booth at the local Vienna Oktoberfest this October - here is what it looked like before the show opened:

White Birch

Just got back from a week in New Hampshire. Great weather including the rain which added to the photos. Went to a white birch forest - here is a nice swipe:

Pickles for this season

This is a little off topic but I though this would be interesting i the day of fast food and prepared food - my family were from the farming heritage and always canned in late summer/early fall. I took my shot this fall and canned 2 bushels of cucumbers - could not fit the canner nor the 7 cans in the canner on the table so this is what was the results and input to the process. I believe I may have enough bread/butter, green lime and dill pickles to last for a while.

Found a few more Palouse photos for processing. These are from a Scottish Highland Cattle farm. This is a Ford V8 stake body truck with a load of drums which appears to have not been moved in a while.


Here we have the main barn looking through an old cattle loading ramp which has fungus and other growth on the wood. Not sure if this was really was for cattle as there is a 'horse' on the ramp.

And lastly, to show you that this was really a Scottish Highland cattle farm, here are four of the herd. It appears two of them could be twins as they were un-separable and very similar in color.