Mountains @ MindSay



 

   
The backside of a cowboy
W-GhostTownCowpoke-8091.jpg hosted for free by ImageShack


There's something about the backside of a cowboy that just "does it" for me.
 
 
   
 

The mountain mannnnnn
I'm wanting to make a trip to the North Carolina or Tennessee mountains shortly. The foliage is peaking and a getaway is always nice. The first couple of pictures were shot by Colby Rabon at a pump track somewhere in the mountains of North Carolina.

Photobucket

I won the limbo contest in the above picture. It was a first round knock out.

Photobucket

I also won the slowest guy in the train award, Seamus got first Beavis snuck into 2nd, and Rico got 3rd.

Photobucket

 
 
 

   
The Long and Winding Road
These are pictures of the drive up to Steamboat and whatever:

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

We were in a traffic jam up there because LaFarge was repairing the roads up there. My uncle John works for them.

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

Some of the trees look red and that's because stupid environmentalists decided to let loose a beetle that's now feasting on trees and killing off our forests.

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

I LOVE the mountains!

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

Gravel road on Mom's side of the car. We sat in the back seat...it was pretty comfy!

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

This is my absolute FAVOURITE picture I've taken so far. It had just snowed up there and it looks like it was currently snowing up there. It captures the beauty of Colorado.

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

I think the car was moving when I took this. But it was still a great photo!

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

My grandparents know the guy who made this barb-wire moose. It's called the Moose Center because that's where you can see actual moose. I don't know why but I constantly refer to it as the Moose Head Removal Center...in my mind and it's from Dudley Doo-Right. That movie's so funny and stupid at the same time.

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

This is a caboose that I took a picture of in Walden. A pit stop between my town and Steamboat. This was near the place where we ate our lunch.

Image and video hosting by TinyPic

And this is where my family stayed at.


More later. I promise.

I took 304 pictures.

CHICAGO WON AGAIN!

(in your FACE, Denver and John!)

~*Another day in the life of Rebekah*~316*~

Pennington is out for the season with a shoulder injury. And some stupid college kid hurt his throat lifting weights. Marshall still wants out of Denver.
 
 
   
 

Syn, Black, Blue, and Penny
Y'know, JUST when I give up on a person, they show up again.

Going back through the old stuff (as I'm only doing a few a day, I'll be at this awhile), I have frequent remindings of one Mr. Synful Buns. Saturday, I sighed, putting away the laptop, and resolved to believe that he was gone for good.

AND THEN THE SNEAK SIGNS ON AGAIN AND COMES TO VISIT!!!!

In other news, I am once again back in the mountains. The Black Hills seem to be so named because after miles and miles of, as my dad's coworker puts it, "NUTHIN'," there are suddenly trees again. Real trees, not the little cottonwoods that gather around water. These are evergreens. And, in fact, there are so many of them that, in contrast to the tawny rolling land you've been driving through, the hills do in fact appear black.

Here, of course, they are blue. The Bighorns are also very well-populated with evergreens, but they are rather larger than the Black Hills. Since you can see them from a greater distance, all that black/green looks blue. There are swaths and runs of white, where there's enough clear land for snow to appear, and it's all very pretty.

On campus, there are little dashes of green appearing in the grass. Rather looks as though Persephone is going through an "artistic rebel" phase, and spray-painting the little hills, but dashing away before a) she gets a chance to finish, and b) anyone ever sees her. In my own opinion, even if she's going through a rebel phase, Persephone wears long flowy skirts all the time. I like to think of her as being barefoot, but maybe during the rebellion, she's wearing combat boots or something.

I like combat boots. They survive practically ANYTHING, and they keep your feet dry. My dad was in ROTC for awhile, and wore his combat boots for years afterwards. I keep wanting a pair, but I don't really need them.

That's kind of a weird thing that's been going on lately. Gandhi said something to the effect of, "Live simply so that others may simply live." I could very well be misinterpreting what he was trying to communicate, but, really, I have everything I need. I have enough clothes, I don't need to buy more - and I can use what I'd spend on clothes for somebody else to get what they need.

It makes sense to me, anyway. If y'ever read Blue Like Jazz, you meet Penny. I think Penny's very cool, because you can see by the way that she acts that she really believes what she says she does. I want to be Penny, but the Phirefly-version of Penny. If God needed another Penny, he would have made one. He made a Phirefly for a reason, and I just have to be the best Phirefly I can be.
 
 
 

   
Elevation

It was freekin cold with a capital K today.

In town we had a balmy 40 degrees. Where I was working today, Glassy Mountain, at an elevation of about 4300 feet above sea level, the temp never got above 23 degrees. The $100k waterfall under the house was frozen almost solid. The wind never stopped. It snowed for about 5 minutes.

And of course the people were out there playing, of all things, GOLF.

 
 
   
 

Showing 1 - 5.   [ Next ]
 
Latest Comment
Re: Find the Mindsay names in this story. - You're worth twice that!!!!

Read...


 
© 2005-2007 MindSay Interactive LLC
| Terms of Service
| Privacy Policy
My Account
Inbox
Account Settings
Lost Password?
Logout
Blog
Update Blog
Edit Old Entries
Pick a Theme
Customize Design
Modify Plugins
Community
Your Profile
Wiki Pages
MindSay Tags
Video & Photos
Geographic Directory
Inside MindSay
About MindSay
MindSay and RSS
Report Spam
Contact Us
Help