Monday, March 7, 2011

And some more this.. rather than that

The day was longer and more complex than one may think....I did a river walk to show a friend how our rivers act.... a mine, a mill site, a prospect..a stone cabin, Mexican terracotta to pretty up my dinner... and amuse my GF... some wild flowers

And an old homestead... which always gave me a funny feeling and questions I have no answer for... "Why" being a biggie... What did they do?  How did they live...

No electricty.. no cooling... nothing.. no light... maybe gas lamps or kerosene... or they just went to bed early... women tended to die around 26....and I think thats a generous recollection...

It all has bearing on why I dont use A/C, I know people did without it till recently... we're just weak now 

keeping cool needed a hole in the ground behind the house..where it was shady at one time there was no road..no powerlines..just a track in the dirt.. not that its nuch better now... and prolly worse.. given the neighbor hood... trailers like the ones across the street blow up and burn all the time.. I even have a photo of one going up.... just a little further down the road, I lived out here for a couple of years and have a friend who still does..

Another one goes up in a blaze..I lived about a mile away and stuff blows up on a regular basis in that little compound....  it was special.....this time stuff caught fire and some brush went up too.....it was dandy and no fire department either..  besides a weapon I carry binoculars, they save me a lot of walking.... no zip ties and duct tape... I look for trails...mines, prospects, caves, quartz veins.. which tend to point to mines, I like to look at anything out of the norm... discolorations... geologic weirdness...shadows..... when I was a young guy... I'd climb the moutians and scan the desert floor for old camps, roads.... green areas.. trails converging on water holes.. that was some rough fun....and it was before light weight pack and camp gear...

Whats the old saying if your stupid you better be tough? I still look at the mesas and wonder whats on top.. what are those little shelves hiding...whats in those shadows... why is all the plant life dense there but not there....or different... I never really got over being curious...

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