Tonight we are heading back to Paris After Dark!
On the Road: Week of August 24 (5 am)
Albatrossity – The Sandhills of Nebraska
Auntie Anne – The “Lesser” Parts of Versailles
?BillinGlendaleCA – Amboy
Steve from Mendocino _ Paris Atmosphere
Jerry – Blue Ridge MountainsParis After Dark: Week of August 24 (10pm)
Wag – Paris, 3/2018
Paul in St. Augustine – Paris
Steve from Mendocino – Paris atmosphere
donatellonerd – Paris — home
Auntie Anne – Paris Week PicturesAnd now, on to Albatrossity! Stunning photos today – that flower is absolutely breathtaking. But will no one think of the tadpoles? (ouch) ~WaterGirl
Albatrossity
Elizabeth and I made a getaway to the Sandhills of Nebraska and the Niobrara River in July. It was a six-hour drive over some fine blue highways, and we stopped once (to have a picnic lunch) along the way. We ended up 30 or so miles south of the NE/SD border, at a guest house at the Hutton Ranch Wildlife Sanctuary. The house and sanctuary are owned by a conservation organization, Audubon of Kansas, whose board of directors Elizabeth serves on. Yeah, I know that owning property in Nebraska is a bit weird for a Kansas conservation organization, but long ago and far away Kansas and Nebraska were lumped together. They probably still are for many folks who live east of the Hudson River…
At any rate we spent four days up there in a part of the country that is underpopulated and underappreciated. I saw one other person (other than guys driving by in their big pickup trucks) in 4 days, and Elizabeth saw none, since she was out hiking purposefully on the Sanctuary most of the time that I was wandering around aimlessly looking for photo opportunities. Here are some pics from that trip; an additional 8 images will follow in a week or so.
Sunrise is one of my favorite times of the day in flyover country. Here’s the sunrise greeting us on our first morning there; the silhouetted object in the foreground is an old busted down Conestoga-style wagon. This ranch was homesteaded in 1880, when wagons like that were still in style.
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