Photo of the Day......Entering Medford Oklahoma

Entering Medford Oklahoma on a hot 102F/39C July 1, 2011 afternoon.  Driving southbound on US highway 81 running along the old Chisholm Cattle Drive Trail.

Wiki says Medford was founded by Hobart Johnstone Whitley a land developer and member of the board of directors of the Rock Island Railroad.  I don't know when Medford was founded but according to Wiki it would have been sometime between the years 1870 and 1890.  Mr Whitley is better known as the founder of the famous Los Angeles California housing subdivision known as Hollywood.  It is said he and his wife named the subdivision while visiting during their honeymoon. 

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Photo of the Day......Abandoned Kansas Prairie Farm

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Photo of the Day......Wind Blown Cottonwood Tree in Southwest Kansas

I must apologize for the bird identification error in the 10 Sept. 2011 posting.  The bird is a Western Meadowlark and not a Northern Flicker.  I'll check some bird resources next time.  

With that said, I am posting a photo of a wind blown Cottonwood tree in South Western Kansas on 1 July 2011.  Like so many trees on the prairie it seems you can set your direction by which way the tree branches are blown.  If the tree is leaning to your left you must be facing south.  If it leans to the right your looking north.  If the tree is leaning towards you your facing west.  If it leans away from you your looking east.  

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Photo of the Day......Northern Flicker on a fence post

Northern Flicker photo taken on the western approaches to the Bad Lands of South Dakota 

 

Photo of the Day......VFR to Clinton, AR

This is a snap shot I took back on September 11, 2009 of the sectional chart in my lap while taking "Old Blue Belly" to her new home in Clinton, AR [KCCA]  It was a day of low and slow, flying.  

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Photo of the Day......Cattle seek shelter from the blistering hea and dryness

It has been 80 years since the Great Plains drought of 1931 to 38 that resulted in the great migration.  Today this same land is experiencing a drought of equal severity. However there is no Farmstead Act and the Prairies never recovered from the the Dust Bowl SO there are far fewer people living here today.  


Cattle take shelter from the overwhelming heat and dryness under a tree stand on a long abandoned farm house near Guymon, Oklahoma.  This appears to have been the home of a very successful farmer at one time.

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Rollo's Photo World: Photo of the day......Beautiful Golden Girl

Rollo's Photo World: Photo of the day......Beautiful Golden Girl: While roaming along Lynn Creek in North Vancouver British Columbia with my grand daughter there were a group of people letting their dogs pl...

Photo of the day......Beautiful Golden Girl

While roaming along Lynn Creek in North Vancouver British Columbia with my grand daughter there were a group of people letting their dogs play in the water.  This exceptional beautiful Golden Retriever caught my eye.  

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