A scan of a vintage photo of the cockpit of one of the North American XB-70 bombers. It looks like it’s probably during assembly.
I have uploaded the full resolution scan (12X9.3 at 300dpi) of the photo to the 2019-07 APR Extras Dropbox folder, available to $4 and up subscribers to the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program.
At sunset yesterday (seems like today… but then, it’s 4:52 AM and I’m still nowhere near ready for sleep) a storm blew through, leaving behind a fairly impressive rainbow and some interesting clouds. Consequently… lo and behold, panoramic photos.
Stepped out this evening to go for a walk and found this feller next to my shop. A juvenile hawk, it didn’t seem to be in a hurry to wander off. Some neighbors and I stood around looking at it like… well, like people standing around looking at a hawk. As this was well after the Department of Wildlife had closed for the night (and the weekend), we got lucky in waving down a passing state trooper. Who, as it turns out, was a former wildlife warden and was about as nonchalant as you could hope. He simply and easily bundled it in a thick blanket and took it off to a bird rehab place, as it was too young to fly back up to where it should have been.
I knew something was up about 20 minutes earlier. There were a bunch of birds chirping their damnfool heads off all day… and they suddenly got *real* quiet. At the same time, Speedbump was in a back window and suddenly went buggo, running from window to window.
People who say that cats are antisocial… don’t know too many cats.
Saw this piece of self propelled artillery heading north up I-15 Wednesday, heading in the direction of Idaho Falls and/or points north. Presumably heading towards the front to help our boys stave off the forces of the invading vile Canadian colonizers. Because that’s where the threat clearly is these days.
What looks like an unhappy expression on Banshees face is exactly that. I’ve known a lot of expressive cats; Buttons lets you know very quickly and very loudly that he’s a happy guy. But Banshee is also expressive… but she’s almost always unhappy. It’s actually pretty hilarious how easily ticked off she is. If she sees another cat or hears another cat, she starts pissing and moaning. The other cats used to be afraid of her, she’d screech and holler so much; but they have long since grown used to her and mostly just ignore her. Around nightfall, Speedbump and banshee chase each other around… pretty sure it’s play. But sometimes fingers chase her around, and there ain’t no mistaking that for play. Fingers is sick of Banshees nonsense, and will chase her down and lay a whoopin’ on her.
She’s real friendly with me; she just hates other cats with the occasional exception of Speedbump. I bet she would have liked Raedthinn… but he would have disdained her with the power of a million disdainful stars.
Further panoramas. All taken in Thatcher, Utah.
Why not. Two very wide panoramas shot early one morning on the road in Wyoming a while back. Remember there’s that “upvote” button now.
From time to time over the eleven years I’ve had The Unwanted Blog, I’ve posted landscape/nature/sky panoramic photosI’vetaken. But as time has gone on, interest, as expressed by comments and such, seems to have waned. Maybe because they’re the same-old, same-old. Maybe because they’re meh. Maybe because tastes change. Maybe because I should really be posting photos of nekkid women. Whatever the reason, people seem to have lost interest in that aspect of the blog (see the long string of “Panorama” posts back in April and May that went by without a single response; the most recent “pano” post to see any interaction was in November).
I should probably just pack that aspect of the blog in, send it riding off into the sunset. And so…
Probably not. Still, it’s amusing to think of this as the next generation of the EM-50.
Saw this in western Iowa a few weeks ago; apparently they were there to deal with local flooding.
Hard to invade Czechoslovakia from Iowa, but here we are.