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So I was driving out towards Saxapahaw and this was going on at the corner of Orange Grove Road and #54? They were plowing with mules and Oxen but the mules were resting!
The little lady was something else whipping up on those giant bovines! Reminded me of this cool quote:
"I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen." ~ Joni Mitchell
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The fam stayed at the Exceat farm in southern England this summer and this was from a pamphlet of local poetry about the area:
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Didn’t somebody post some pics of the northern lights recently? I couldn’t find them with the search function. Anyway, our next door neighbor in Morehead just sent this, not sure exactly when it was taken, but certainly within the last few days…

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In Guatemala City there is a Zone One bar and restaurant named Europa. You can see a sign for it in the photo above if you look closely. I've been 'frequenting' the place since the late '80s. I knew it as a shady spot on earth back then. Mercenaries. Smugglers. Traffickers. Fugitives. Filibusteros. Nomads. Fellow Travelers.

Nowadays it seems pretty tame. On the wall hangs a photograph. It is of two military guys. I've posted it below. The guy in the gray is Sgt. Barry Sadler. He sang 'The Ballad of the Green Beret.' He was shot dead in Guatemala in the 1980s.

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donbosco said:
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In Guatemala City there is a Zone One bar and restaurant named Europa. You can see a sign for it in the photo above if you look closely. I've been 'frequenting' the place since the late '80s. I knew it as a shady spot on earth back then. Mercenaries. Smugglers. Traffickers. Fugitives. Filibusteros. Nomads. Fellow Travelers.

Nowadays it seems pretty tame. On the wall hangs a photograph. It is of two military guys. I've posted it below. The guy in the gray is Sgt. Barry Sadler. He sang 'The Ballad of the Green Beret.' He was shot dead in Guatemala in the 1980s.

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I visited Antigua way back in the early 90s. It was gloriously beautiful, But young me was a bit shocked to see two guards outside the bank with military rifles. It wasn't really the rifles that got me, it was the fact that these guys weren't bored, they were very clearly alert and looking like there was a non-insignificant chance the rifles would be needed.
 
Ddseddse said:
I visited Antigua way back in the early 90s. It was gloriously beautiful, But young me was a bit shocked to see two guards outside the bank with military rifles. It wasn't really the rifles that got me, it was the fact that these guys weren't bored, they were very clearly alert and looking like there was a non-insignificant chance the rifles would be needed.
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Civil War was on until ‘96, then there were thousands of men who only knew fighting to be employed. Sometimes it seems that there is an armed guard for every person NOT an armed guard even today.
 
With the full realization that Caribbean island pics are hard to fuck up, I took a couple on a recent trip to St John, USVI.

My mom passed a way earlier this year. She and my stepdad were married on STJ 18 years ago. She wanted her ashes spread there, and so a couple weeks ago held a small ceremony and close family trip to do a “celebration of life” for her.

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hedge said:
Didn’t somebody post some pics of the northern lights recently? I couldn’t find them with the search function. Anyway, our next door neighbor in Morehead just sent this, not sure exactly when it was taken, but certainly within the last few days…

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I posted a Northern Lights picture in another thread a while back. It was from the Snaefellsnes Peninsula in Iceland from my trip in September.

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Great capture of El Volcán Fuego showing off. Taken from Earth Lodge, El Hato, Sacatepequez, Guatemala #OTD 2023. (My wife actually snapped it)

We’re back in the same place tonight. Clouds are not cooperating but here’s the sunset.

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donbosco said:
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Great capture of El Volcán Fuego showing off. Taken from Earth Lodge, El Hato, Sacatepequez, Guatemala #OTD 2023. (My wife actually snapped it)

We’re back in the same place tonight. Clouds are not cooperating but here’s the sunset.

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WOW! That first one is a once in a lifetime shot.
 
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