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Home & Garden > What's in the Camera: Early June
 

What's in the Camera: Early June

This is a smoke plume from a wildfire quite a bit to the west of us. It's a warning to us, because we need to do our fire planning and have a drill so we know what to do when the time comes to get the house ready for fire, or evacuate the area.

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These 50 foot concrete arrows still exist in the Nevada desert, literally out in the middle of nowhere, to guide airmail airplanes to the rural airports in the 1940s.

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This doctor from Chicago was fly fishing from a boat in Montana, and rescued a baby moose that was swept downstream when its mother swam across the river and it tried to follow. The baby only weighed 25 pounds.

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We call this Dead Man's Rocks because in April 2003 a trespassing fisherman knocked one of them loose and it crushed him.

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The people who lived here at the time (renters) painted a yellow stick man on the rocks to indicate how the body was positioned under the big boulder, but it has since washed away.


posted on June 11, 2013 5:47 PM ()

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That li'l moose is all legs! I love the arrow in the desert...what wonderful metaphorical possibilities!!
comment by steeve on June 14, 2013 10:56 AM ()
I loved that moose story.... Made me cry!
comment by kristilyn3 on June 14, 2013 12:32 AM ()
I have been worried about you and the fires. The Big Meadows Fire looks close to you. I check on the fires statuses on the Colorado Fire Maps (https://www.coloradofiremaps.com/status-updates/). So I'm relieved a bit to know it is not near you, even though it looks close on the map. Again I give thanks for your metal roofs. Stay alert and take care!
comment by marta on June 12, 2013 9:23 AM ()
Might be alright when a baby , do you remember a film called the yearling?---He was stiff that fella NOW!! get the fire precautions in place its serious when it happens and plan evacuation in advance is a good thing---Aviation has come a long way since the 1940s
comment by kevinshere on June 12, 2013 2:36 AM ()
What would anybody do with a baby moose?
comment by jjoohhnn on June 11, 2013 7:55 PM ()
When I win the powerball I will have a sanctuary and I want a baby moose or two!!!!!!
reply by greatmartin on June 11, 2013 8:23 PM ()
They carried it to shore where they last saw the mother and drew back to watch. The baby made noises like a puppy, and they thought they saw the mother come out of the woods and walk over to it.
reply by troutbend on June 11, 2013 8:16 PM ()
I want a baby moose!!!!!!!
comment by greatmartin on June 11, 2013 7:02 PM ()
Yes I do! Yes I do!
reply by greatmartin on June 11, 2013 8:24 PM ()
No you don't. But it is cute.
reply by troutbend on June 11, 2013 8:17 PM ()

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