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Aces and eights. A dead man’s hand. So called because that is what James Butler Hickok held when he was shot from behind in a saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota in August 1876. One of the greatest gunslingers of the Old West lay dead from a gunshot in the back of…
Posted by in Uncategorized Christopher Martin Photography My son and I returned from a weekend hiking and camping with good friends in the Monashee Provincial Park in British Columbia on Monday night. Wildfires have been a clear and present danger across the province for the whole summer and west of Golden we drove between two separate fires that were…Read more »
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A red-legged falcon has been posing several days for photographers in Tuusula, close to Helsinki.
Posted by in Uncategorized Originally posted on Chaotic Shapes:
I Finished up the drawing on Thursday. There were many different guesses on what this could be. Some were correct, others close. A few were off by a lot. I’m not saying there’s a correct image of this drawing, you create whatever you want. What you see is what you…
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I’d stopped off for a bite of lunch in the Scottish Border town of Melrose. It was a cloudy, cool day, and as I warmed up over some homemade tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich, the Appalachian sounds of Dolly Parton’s voice drifted through the small tea shop. I can’t…
Posted by in Uncategorized Originally posted on Ferrell's Travel Blog:
Jesus observed the Passover of the Jews somewhere in the upper city of Jerusalem, the present Mount Zion. Scholarly consensus locates the house of Caiaphas at a site near the Cenacle on Mount Zion. Another site, further down the slope toward the Pool of Siloam, is held by…
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Red-backed shrike scoping around on the top of a cattail.
Posted by in Uncategorized Christopher Martin Photography This summer I feel like I have rediscovered the Kananaskis Lakes located in the Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. In particular, I have spent a lot of time at the upper lake. The peaks that ring the lake have appealed to me recently in a new way and I have been drawn to…Read more »
Posted by in Uncategorized Christopher Martin Photography Sandhill crane couples dance with each other. I found this pair in a field west of Bragg Creek and was lucky to be able to watch them. A few Canada geese watched the dance as well. They seemed to watch with little interest. Far less than me. View original post
Posted by in Uncategorized Originally posted on Have Bag, Will Travel:
“In a year’s time when the newspapers have forgotten me, dig me up and plant me in Sligo.” – W.B. Yeats I confess to being disappointed when we first arrived in Sligo. It appeared rather austere and grey and subdued and dull compared with the colour and vibrancy and the vivaciously…
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