Turn the Other Way....

Back in early spring, we headed down to Bulverde, TX, for a soccer game.

Bulverde is a small rural town, north of San Antonio.

That city does seem to be creeping closer and closer, though.

There is still some country left, out where the soccer fields are.

We turned right, instead of left, leaving the fields, 

and came across this little old farmhouse.

The stacked stone fence just called out to be photographed.

But, this old stone building was what first caught my eye.

Was it a house?  Was it a barn?

And, look at that old buckboard wagon.

I'm not sure what it USED to be.

But, it's a keeper now.

Well taken care of...even the same turquoise shutters, as the farmhouse.

You just never know what you'll find, if you just turn the other way.

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~~Linda~~

Cross Over the Bridge...

On our drive up to 

Grand Teton National Park,

we passed under a few of these.

It's a 

Wildlife Bridge.

You see those fences along the sides of the road?

They're pretty tall.  And, they funnel the wildlife...

deer, elk, moose....whatever....

up to the bridge.

These make it safer for the wildlife to cross the road.

Saves many of their lives, and probably many humans' lives as well.

Pretty clever.

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Moulton Barn....

On Mormon Row, 

at Grand Teton National Park.

This was the last week in June.

Imagine living out here in winter, over a hundred years ago.

Now...that's Rural.

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~~Linda~~

Barn in Colorado....

On a recent trip to Wyoming, we came back home through

Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

We passed this great barn, along the way.

I just had to have some fun with textures.

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Textures: 

 Kim Klassen 'touch of-2,

Nancy Claey 'Deanna'

Shadowhouse 'Raggedy And'

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Sunset on the Mountain....

Recently, Mr P and I visited our daughter and her family in 

Pinedale, Wyoming.

It's a small town, in a beautiful place.

One evening, when heading back to our B&B,

we noticed the sun, putting on quite a show as it was leaving.

Of course, we had to go to watch the show.

As we drove down a lane, on the outskirts of town,  we noticed there was a storm up on the mountains, to the east.

It was dropping rain, or maybe even snow.

Whichever, the sun was turning it amazing colors.

The orange and gold of the western sky, was turned to pinks and purples,

to the east.

I'm so glad we were in this spot, at this moment.

"Nature is the art of God."

~Dante Alighieri

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~~Linda~~

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Losing It....

Well...it's been busy around here.

Lots of outside work.

A little inside work.

We had a great Easter.

I hope you did, too.

And, we finally got some rain.  Still not enough.
But, we'll take what we can get.

We had hundreds of American Goldfinches come through last week.

Mr. P was lucky enough to get this shot.

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On Monday, I turned on my computer, and things were strange.

My desktop was all rearranged.

The wallpaper was set back to a default Toshiba one.

And,

ALL MY PHOTOS WERE GONE!!

GONE!!

To say I was unhappy about it, would be a VAST understatement.

Nobody seems to know what happened.

But, not all is lost

I blog.

In fact, I have THREE blogs.
 And, Blogger stores uploaded photos 

on Picasa Web Albums.

And, I also use a couple more online photo storage places.

Plus...

when we got the new laptop, we couldn't sync it with the old one.

So, I burned CDs, to transfer photos.

Whew....saved a lot of grief.  

We did lose a lot of photos taken since then, that weren't posted or stored somewhere.

Learned my lesson....again.

BACK UP YOUR FILES!!

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So, since I lost all my recent Rural photos,

I dug into some saved ones, and found something that might work.

This is a very rural area in southern Arizona.

I took it while we drove along, on our way back from California last fall.

Saguaro cactus is so cool.  They have to be quite old, to have so many arms.

This one looks quite lonely.

But, there was a lot of different greenery, keeping it company.

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~~Linda~~