Blinking lights! Andy became fixated!
“What!? What!? What!?”
Where’d you think Greenies go when you knock them off the lapboard Andy? (They become a housekeping chore periodicaly. I toss them outside for critters that come around.)
“I didn’t know.”
“Speaking of Greenies….!”
Andy always stops…
…and looks at me, as if he needs my permission to eat his treats, then he chomps away!
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I don’t remember using this landscape photo from my recent Rapid City car maintenance trip. I used this one instead:
The isolated tree on the right made compositional sense, and says Nebraska to me. When I was in the US Army, I kept in touch with home, emotionally, by thinking about an isolated tree in a field just outside of my town. Trees like this typically are the result of birds pooping seeds or seeds carried on the wind. These trees become landmarks on otherwise largely featureless vistas.
I especially love that last photo of Andy asking permission to eat his treats!
Both those views of Nebraska are beautiful, Doug. That you kept mentally in touch with home by thinking of an isolated home is a wonderful thing. Sometimes I think back on a particular hill in the rural farming town I grew up in. The narrow country road snaked up the hill, a mile all the way to the top. I was a runner, and it was part of my training route. From the top, one could see out to Long Island Sound.
I can appreciate that hill! I know places outside of town where there’s no significant evidence that humans have touched them. I like to imagine them 200 hundred years ago when tens of thousands bison grazed on the natural grasses.
Mr Andy is such a gentleman! The close-ups are fabulous.
Thanks, Dolly! He was being especially cooperative then.
Especially gorgeouos, too.
Andy sends kitty kisses to you, Dolly, for admiring his beautiful pelage!
Nose kisses right back to him!
Thanks, Dolly!
The pleasure is all mine, Doug and Mr Andy!
Wow, it’s so flat there! The snowstorms love the flatness I’m sure. Must have mountains!
That’s the tablelands north of my town. Looking the opposite direction, you’d see Pine Ridge buttes. Yes, a blizzard in this area doesn’t have much resisting it!
I see. I know nothing about Nebraska apparently!
You are one of millions of Americans! LOL! This end of the state is a prelude to the Rocky Mountains. The east end is the lowest in elevation at 837 ft./ 255 meters in the southeast tip near Rulo, I believe it is. The highest elevation at 7083 ft./ 2159 meters is in the southwest corner of the Panhandle, close to Kimball. Kimball is 96 miles/ 154.5 kilometers from where I live, about a straight line southwest from here. It’s 3967 feet/ 1209 meters above sea level here. As the crow flies, the distance between Kimball and Alliance is 72.69 miles/ 117 kilometers, giving you a sense of how fast there is an uplift that results in the Rockies and how much the geography of this end of the state prevents direct routes between towns. The Wildcat Hills and the Platte River flood plane stand between the two towns, and it is a very hilly drive through a very scenic and historic part of my state.
Wow, thanks for the information, Doug! You really know your state!
I have lots of curiosity about places I live, visit, or would like tovisit.
Visit Vegas, you have a friend and local who knows where to go.
It can’t happen, unfortunately, since dialysis requires some restrictions and my other major medical issue, WG/GPA, makes me prone to blood clots so air travel, the fastest way to avoid missing a treatment during travel, is advised against. Come to think of it, blood clots are a potential issue with dialysis, too. I’d enjoy travelling more than I can.
I understand, Doug. 😊
I prevented me attending my brother’s funeral in California, the worst case.
I’m very sorry that happened, Doug. 😭🙏🏻
I felt bad about it but that’s life, eh?
Yes… I missed my daughter’s wedding because of severe weather back east. Very sad and angering… 😭
That seems to be the prices we pay in such a large country.
Yes, that storm was serious!
It’s cool that Andy is curious about the blinking light, and polite of him to wait for your okay before eating the greenies. That lone tree definitely enhances the landscape. One like that surely would be a good memory of home.
I don’t recall him ever showing interest in the router or modem lights before. The lone tree in the field that recalled home for me was a volunteer cottonwood. The farmer eventually cut it down when he felt he could make more money planting there.
Great shot. Thank you for your service to our country.
Thanks!
You have critters that come around? Which ones? Do they knock at the door and bid you a friendly hello?
Cottontail rabbits, squirrels, neighborhood cats, and a variety of Andy-pleasing birds are regular visitors.
Yes – the tree makes the picture
It’s just a small spot in the top photo, but it definitely is better close up.
Wow, those pics really show off Andy’s glorious furriness! I like both landscape pictures, but I think the tree does work really well in the second one.
Andy’s looking really “floofy” these days!
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