Thematic Photograph #62 - Abandoned

Recently, I was walking in a pasture and discovered this abandoned old brake rotor. It was tossed aside because it got thin, over heated and/or warped. Pine needles have gathered on this rotor; but notice new life is hugging its shade and gathering enough water and sun to grow. I hope this plant survives the long, cold winter ahead.


Brake Rotor

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8/12 Outdoor Wednesday #31

Howdy! So glad you dropped by to visit.

This log pile was cut and stacked by our younger son named Norm. We have a grand total of six piles of lumber cut to be used as firewood. Norm and my husband John, and a relative named Bob, helped a friend clear his yard of fallen trees. Then firewood was brought over to our cabin using a 1986 Ford FT150 XLT blue truck. Luckily, no springs on the truck were broken.

This fire pit was originally made by cub scouts using bricks. Notice that most of the brick has been broken from the hot heat. When bricks fall onto the ground we just build it back using the old bricks. Some day, we will need to redo this fire pit. Right now, this fire pit is good enough.

Smoke went this way.

Smoke went that way.

Here is a photograph of a Pink cross hanging on a bent tree near the fire pit. This tree in the past was used as a rocking horse by a visiting toddler named Thomas. This August, Thomas celebrated his eleventh birthday. Time does fly when one is having fun!

This unidentified plant sits in a pail on top of a tree trunk. It has been rained on. But for days on end, it put up with smoke, heat and fire burning in the fire pit.

This is a close-up of the same flower. It seems to like the location.

We had sixteen guests staying at our cabin last week. Yes, I said sixteen. We only have three bedrooms and one bathroom. Yes, I said one bathroom. These people are used to camping out, hunting and fishing. So they brought along the queen size blow up mattresses and four tents which they set-up outside. They experienced chilly nights and had the fire going night and day for warmth and to keep bears, fox, coyote and other wild animals out of their tents. A neighbor came by and called the fire "the eternal olympic torch."

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Quote by BLACK ELK, OGLALA SIOUX

Everything the Power of the World
does is done in a circle. The sky is
round and I have heard that the earth
is round like a ball and so are all the stars.
The wind, in its greatest power, whirls.
Birds make their nests in circles,
for theirs is the same religion as ours.
The sun comes forth and goes down
again in a circle. The moon does the
same and both are round. Even the
seasons form a great circle in their
changing and always come back again
to where they were. The life of a man
is a circle from childhood to childhood.
And so it is in everything where power moves.
...BLACK ELK, OGLALA SIOUX
(1863-1950)

Pink Saturday August 8, 2009

This unidentified flower photograph was taken outside of Blue Hills Inn Supper Club, Weyerhaeuser, Wisconsin.

Think I'll pour a glass of Arizona Sweet Tea into a glass with ice cubes and then settle in and check out other sites that has a Pink theme at: http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/.

Thank you Beverly for being our hostess.

Sky Watch Friday #56

Sunset, Lac Court Oreilles, Stone Lake, Wisconsin.

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Thematic Photographic #61 - Lines

"Silence is also speech."
...African proverb.

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8/05 Outdoor Wednesday #30

Each leaf seems to have its own pattern or its own color scheme.

For example: yellow, brown or dark green.

This Outdoor Wednesday I am looking at each leaf and come away in awe.

Beauty is seen even in the small things if we just look.

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