2020 New Random Pics

[GH85Carrera]

[masraum]

just a tad more expensive than the Walmart model.

[dafischer]

[GH85Carrera]

I saw something like that many years ago in my press photographer days. The fire department made sure to smash both windows to get the hose through, and used an old leaking hose to add several inches of water to the car interior. Then when the fire was out they had it towed it to an impound yard and wrote the guy a large ticket. He was not happy, but I bet he never parked in front of a fire hydrant again in a no parking zone.

[masraum]

My wife put a very B movie on last night. I was about to go to bed. She wasn't really paying close attention and had seen it before.

It had these two in it. I didn't pay much attention, but I didn't mind it being on either.

[JackDidley]

Alicia Witt, very hot. She was good in Justiified.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by JackDidley

Alicia Witt, very hot. She was good in Justiified.

And she's only a few years younger than I am. Nice!

[GH85Carrera]

Forget the Carolina squat, this is the new Carolina doggy style!




Ongotoya (Solitary Traveler) and Son, 1892
Kiowa people are a Native American tribe and an indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States. They migrated southward from western Montana into the Rocky Mountains in Colorado in the 17th and 18th centuries, and eventually into the Southern Plains by the early 19th century.

[masraum]

Witch's hat

[GH85Carrera]

Chief He Dog, of the Oglala Lakota, 1900




Edinburgh Castle is a historic castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. It stands on Castle Rock, which has been occupied by humans since at least the Iron Age, although the nature of the early settlement is unclear. There has been a royal castle on the rock since at least the reign of David I in the 12th century, and the site continued to be a royal residence until 1633. From the 15th century, the castle's residential role declined, and by the 17th century it was principally used as military barracks with a large garrison. Its importance as a part of Scotland's national heritage was recognised increasingly from the early 19th century onwards, and various restoration programmes have been carried out over the past century and a half

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Edinburgh Castle is a historic castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. It stands on Castle Rock, which has been occupied by humans since at least the Iron Age, although the nature of the early settlement is unclear. There has been a royal castle on the rock since at least the reign of David I in the 12th century, and the site continued to be a royal residence until 1633. From the 15th century, the castle's residential role declined, and by the 17th century it was principally used as military barracks with a large garrison. Its importance as a part of Scotland's national heritage was recognised increasingly from the early 19th century onwards, and various restoration programmes have been carried out over the past century and a half

The coolest thing to me is that the castle is built on a volcano plug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Castle

he castle stands upon the plug of an extinct volcano, which is estimated to have risen about 350 million years ago during the lower Carboniferous period. The Castle Rock is the remains of a volcanic pipe, which cut through the surrounding sedimentary rock before cooling to form very hard dolerite, a type of basalt. Subsequent glacial erosion was resisted by the dolerite, which protected the softer rock to the east, leaving a crag and tail formation.[8]

The summit of the Castle Rock is 130 metres (430 ft) above sea level, with rocky cliffs to the south, west, and north, rising to a height of 80 metres (260 ft) above the surrounding landscape.[9] This means that the only readily accessible route to the castle lies to the east, where the ridge slopes more gently. The defensive advantage of such a site is self-evident, but the geology of the rock also presents difficulties, since basalt is extremely impermeable. Providing water to the Upper Ward of the castle was problematic, and despite the sinking of a 28-metre (92 ft) deep well, the water supply often ran out during drought or siege,[10] including during the Lang Siege in 1573.[11]

Diagram of a crag and tail feature, such as the Castle Rock: A is the crag formed from the volcanic plug, B is the tail of softer rock, and C shows the direction of ice movement. In the case of Edinburgh, the castle stands on the crag (A) with the Royal Mile extending along the tail (B)

And the fact that Loch Ness (and a bunch of of other lakes that connect end to end and) completely divides Scotland in two because they are the result of the faults above.





If you go to google maps and zoom in, you can follow the path of the lakes and rivers and a canal or two and find that you could cross Scotland in a boat, I'm pretty sure.

[GH85Carrera]

Lee Street in Deadwood, South Dakota, 1877. The city had its heyday from1876-1879 after gold deposits had been discovered there leading to the Black Hills Gold Rush.




1 Owner Since 78, Ford Capri Mk2 3.0 Ghia

[asphaltgambler]

^^^^Did someone use that Capri as a plow truck in Nothern Michigan? I've owned one, never seen rust that bad......................

[masraum]

This here's a moovin' pitcher!

Always like their stuff. This is about as American as it gets without any apple pie!

[GH85Carrera]

A Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon in the latest HAVE GLASS V coating.
Note how the nose of the aircraft, which is the radome that contains the radar, is left unpainted and is in the original grey it comes in. In a standard F-16 that doesn't have the HAVE GLASS V coating applied, the colour of the nose actually matches the scheme of the rest of the fuselage.
So, why did they make the aircraft more conspicuous unless the coating offers some advantage that outweighed it's drawbacks?


Ouch! Expensive off there.

[craigster59]

I didn't get a "signed model release" but BB has always been one of my favorite 911's...

[Bill Douglas]

[red 928]

what is it they say about old fords?
something like "found in tree dead"

[GH85Carrera]

Home Sweet Home, somewhere in the USA. Image taken 1900-1910.




Cleanup on paint aisle!

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by masraum

If you go to google maps and zoom in, you can follow the path of the lakes and rivers and a canal or two and find that you could cross Scotland in a boat, I'm pretty sure.

I did exactly that. Thank you!

My Father's side of the family was Scottish - his father a first generation American, his Mother FOB.

My Grandfather was an orphan and had no desire to wax poetic about Scotland or go visit. Scotland is the last place on this Earth that would get me on a translant or pac airliner. After the hip is fixed, we'll see

Taken yesterday. Combine is here, soybeans will be gone by 1500.