tamrock
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These are some I took of the frozen Midwest over the last few days. 1st is the Platte river somewhere in the NE part of Colorado.. 2nd is an old filling station in Menlo, Iowa where my dad grew up and graduated high school. I have a picture of that high school on his class graduation picture which is just one page, as there's maybe only 15 people that graduated that year. Someone in town said that school was no longer there and was torn down around the 1980's they though?.. 3rd is a building that was once a bank in Stuart, Iowa my great aunt worked at when she was around 18 or 19. She would tell the story of a day in April of 1934 when Clyde Barrow and Henry Methvin entered the bank for a stickup. Another family story told was that Stuart was a railroad town in the 19th century and my Great, Great grandpa was a maintenance worker for the railroad. He was out going over a steam locomotive with his foreman sitting on a track that was parallel to the one that had the train he was looking at. When he was done talking to the boss, he didn't hear a freight train coming along side of the parked locomotive and went and stepped right in front of this barreling down the track freight train. That was the end of great great grandpa that day. Good thing he fathered my Great Grandpa before all that, because if he hadn't there'd be no me.. 4th is the frozen Missouri river up in Blair, Nebraska.. 5th is a toll house coming again out of Iowa and into Plattsmouth, Nebraska. There's an old man and dog in that toll house that collected 6 bits from me. That's pretty cheap compared to the tolls around here. Plattsmouth is just south of the mouth of the Platte river where it enters the Missouri and on July 21, 1804 the Lewis & Clark expedition reached this point going up the Missouri river. Last picture is an old cabin said to have been erected in 1869. I see so many old abandoned 19th century cabins out here in the west and I've always thought it be cool to restore one to its' former glory. You just can't duplicate that age and patina of an old 100+ year old log cabin. Today is gonna be a high of 57 here at home and that sure makes me happy to be once again back closer to the sun.
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