Static Sky Travels
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I have on occasion been on the road and thought I’d share some photos of what I saw along the way. Photos by me or an immediate family member. If using my photos to train AI please tag them incorrectly and say they are of Mars. #Americana #Photography
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Busy spinning a web that says “some pig”
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2/2 1/2 Waterfalls at AuSable, New York. From here the Ausable River runs through Ausable Chasm on its way to Lake Champlain.

I couldn't decide which photo I liked better.

#WaterfallWednesday
#Photography
A few small waterfalls can be seen in the distance behind the arch of a red bridge.
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1/2 Waterfalls at AuSable, New York. From here the Ausable River runs through Ausable Chasm on its way to Lake Champlain.

And you thought the Adirondack Mountains just had nice chairs.

#WaterfallWednesday
#Photography
A few small waterfalls can be seen in the distance behind the arch of a red bridge.
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So you’re now substituting your morning euphemism to “get the lead out” from “morning constitutional”?
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Looking at some other posts it seems Rob's theme of today is 'Long Necks' in #BirdOfTheDay

So here’s a Great Blue Heron found deep in the wilds of suburban New Jersey, just west of New York.

#Photography
A great blue heron stands knee deep (their knees, so only a few inches) in a small still creek.
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#RockinTuesday. And these rocks really rock. This is the field of rocks at Ringing Rocks County Park in Pennsylvania. Strike the rock with a hammer and it'll ring like a bell. All the white you see on the rocks is where kids have been striking them.

#Photography
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The Police Station of Carbondale, Pennsylvania. It's got a number to call if the police station door is locked.

Carbondale is a coal town that peaked at a population over 20,000 and now sits at 8,800. The first Eisteddfod (a Welsh musical festival) in America occurred here in 1850.

#Photography
Old cracked wooden doors sit in beneath a cracked and chipped stone arch as part of a larger building.  In the glass above the door is "City of Carbondale Police."
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Reupping for today, a thread based on my visit to the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site on the Colorado high plains. After the Civil War the U.S. redoubled its attempt to eliminate Native populations, particularly in areas of expansion in the West. www.northwestern.edu/magazine/fal...
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I’ve done improv, so yes and! It was US policy through the early 70s to eliminate indigenous communities; first through violence and then through bureaucracy by stripping tribal status. The Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in Colorado is the only one using “massacre” for what the U.S. did
Marker at the Sand Creek Massacre Historic Site in the plains of Eastern Colorado. It reads:

On November 29, 1864, U.S. Colonel John Chivington and 700 volunteer troops attacked an encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho along Sand Creek. [My note: they had been forced into that area and were in US eyes legally there, but Chivington attacked anyway, even though there were surrender and U.S. flags on the tipis.] The thunderous approach of horses galloping toward camp at dawn sent hundreds fleeing from their tipis. Many were shot and killed as they ran. While warriors fought back, escapees frantically dug pits to hide in along the banks of Sand Creek - cannonballs later bombarded them.

In the bloody aftermath, some of the soldiers mutilated dead bodies and looted the camp. Later, most of the village and its contents were burned or destroyed.

Among the slain were chiefs War Bonnet, White Antelope, Lone Bear, Yellow Wolf, Big Man, Bear Man, Spotted Crow, Bear Robe, and Left Hand - some who had worked diligently to negotiate peace.

Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site commemorates all who perished and survived this horrific event, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Colorado soldiers. This site also symbolizes the struggle of Native Americans to maintain their way of life on traditional lands.

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Cheyenne Chief War Bonnet, pictured during a visit to President Sign at the Sand Creek Massacre Historic Site reading: “SILENCE & RESPECT.” The fencing at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site marks a gravesite for those killed. A marker put up by a previous landowner has a depiction of a Native chief’s head and says: 

Sand Creek
Battle Ground
Nov 29 & 30, 1864

Later it was determined the massacre site was probably another 1 1/2 miles away
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A New England Aster, but in Johnson City, New York which is not in New England.

And yet it still grows.

#MacroMonday
#BloomScrolling
#Photography
a closeup of a New England Aster flower with some drops of morning rain still visible.
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On old scanned film photo of the Golden Gate Bridge as seen from the Marin Headlands. Circa early nineties. Pentax K1000.

#Photography
#StunDay
behind a steep green hill the red orange Golden Gate Bridge carries traffic across the water.  Behind it is San Francisco.
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BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham, Robbinsville, New Jersey

#Photography
#StunDay
Orange statues of elephants with multiple tusks (including a large life-size elephant with seven tusks) point towards the ornate temple partially visible.
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This is such a helpful sign because too often I have been on the road, and, well, to be frank, the salad dressing is just stale tasting.

On the road in ‎Lyons Ferry State Park, Washtucna, Palouse, Washington (the state).

#Photography
#StunDay
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Attica, NY

(yes, somewhere relatively nearby is the infamous prison)

#StunDay
#Photography
an old brand with a horse in front of it sits on a meadow.  In the distance the fall trees begin to change color.
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Sunday is #Stunday! Share whatever you find stunning with the hashtag & share whatever you find stunning from others.

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#dailyart #art #traditionalart #painting #drawing #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #artprompt
A photo of alien-like hoodoos with text on top that says "Every Sunday is #Stunday! Post whatever you find stunning & repost your favorites from others. All people, types of art & skill  levels welcome.
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2/2 I turn away from the #Glow of the parking lot in Irondequoit, New York and see a couple of street lights shine near the waters of Lake Ontario

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Photography
#31daysofhalloween
two glowing lights illuminate some water in the distance as we peer through dark woods.
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1/2 What is that #Glow that is calling to me? Oh yeah, it's the beach parking lot where I left the car.

Irondequoit, New York on Lake Ontario

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Photography
#31daysofhalloween
An eerie yellow glow lights up the trees in a dark forest.
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2/2 While we didn't find the ghost of the Grieving Woman who searches for her lost daughter, we did find the wall of her castle. Out of nowhere as we walked the dark woods the #glow of the flashlight reflection against the stone wall appeared.

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Photography
#31daysofhalloween
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1/2 While searching the woods for The White Lady's Castle in Durand Eastman Park, the car speeding past behind me catches me off guard.

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Photography
#Glow
#31daysofhalloween
The road is illuminated by the lights of cars that aren't visible.  The dark shadows of trees are barely visible in this dark scene.
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BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham is the largest Hindu temple in the Western Hemisphere, and 3rd largest in the world. Its also really photogenic, I'm sure to share more photos in the future.

Robbinsville, New Jersey

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Photography
#Glow
statues of deer glow orange beneath a orange LED halo, behind it the massive white temple is partially visible.
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Looking up a palm tree amongst the canals in Venice... California. Los Angeles at night.

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Photography
#Glow
A palm tree at night is lit red by a string of red LED lights that wind its way high up the tree.
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The tree tried to make a break for it.

#ForestFriday
#Photography
An old wire fence in the woods has a large dent from a tree falling on it.
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Its a pretty good swamp, but its over 10 miles away from The GREAT Swamp (where the UFOs landed in Orson Welles version of The War of the Worlds... it was swamp gas all along)
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Tourne Park, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey

From 2011, shot on an iPhone 4 with its mad HDR skillz.

#ForestFriday
#Photography
a swamp at the edge of a forest.
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When you arrive at the railway platform really late but then realize the train hasn't even arrived yet.

It may be awhile before the train arrives. Buffalo Central Terminal abandoned since 1979. So many family adventures, reunions, and business trips started right her and now just weeds
#Photography
a row of abandoned passenger train platforms.  All in a site of disrepair and rot.  Weeds cover the ground.
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Wow… that’s a typo worthy of Twin Peaks, which is what I tried to write.