From our collection of old postcards ...
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| Christmas Tree Park Yellowstone National Park As it appeared in about 1910 Essentially this is the West Entrance to YNP |
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| Back of the card |
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| Description on back enlarged. |
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| (Roughly) How the same spot looks today as shown on Google Maps Steetview. This view is just after leaving the western entance gate. |
Neighborhood Update
On July 4th the Hyundai Global container ship pulled up and anchored right in front of us. Well, we may be speaking a little bit loosely on that, but really, it was straight out the window. Here are a couple of our pics of the Global ...
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| Hyundai Global Container Ship Home Port: London |
The ship was on its way out of Puget Sound and anchored for only a couple of hours. We were curious about why, but don't have any answers. The first picture belies the size of the ship. Consider that you may have seen just one of those containers being pulled along by a truck on the freeway right next to your car and you get an idea of the size. We put our spotting scope on the Global and were impressed with just the size of the anchor cable. Wish we could have gotten a photo for you but here is one from the web that gives a good idea of the size of the individual links in the chain ...
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| Just one link weighs about 500 pounds. |
By the way, when we were researching anchor chain on the web we happened to find an interesting video. Have you ever seen a container ship being run into the ground on purpose? Take a look ...
The short story on the grounding ... The main engine had failed and they lost reliable control of where the ship was headed, so to prevent collisions with other ships in the crowded channel, the authorities and the Captain decided to ground her. (Full story is in the video's description on YouTube. The video was posted by Corinne Vigniel.)
Color on our walk
The next three photos are all taken in a spot that many might classify as "weeds". |
| First, the pod ... about to bloom |
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| On the same plant, a bloom just opened |
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| Another shot of the red red wild rose we featured a couple of posts ago. |
Skies
Wildfires in the dry forests are sending smoke to the skies around the Pacific Northwest including the city of Seattle. Here is how the sky looked about 30 minutes before sunset on July 7th ...
Thank you for stopping by John's Island.
I love Yellowstone Nat'l Park, great postcard! The ship looks huge and the containers looks so colorful! Your lilies are beautiful and the sky shot is lovely. I hope the wildfires are under control. Happy weekend!
ReplyDeleteChristmas Tree Park! Love, love, LOVE that!
ReplyDeleteThe park looked amazing back in the day and the shipping container facts are impressive x
ReplyDeleteEven though you're not posting as often, I look forward to seeing your latest post show up in my feed, John. This was as usual very interesting. That container ship is huge. I've been to Yellowstone through that entrance. It is a beautiful place and I'm glad you can show me what it looked like a century ago. :-)
ReplyDeleteyou got me with that anchor chain
ReplyDeletei hate to see those smoky skies from the nw and canada. :( lovely blooms of color. those are HUGE ships! and chains!
ReplyDeletei like the size of those christmas trees. :)
John, such a lovely array of photos today! That container ship....how in the world does it float with all those containers on it?
ReplyDeleteThese are great photos. I was reading your section in the margin - vintage memorabilia, most of it about the Pacific Northwest. Do you have any material about Sacramento in the 1910s?
ReplyDeleteTerrific captures they are indeed, John!! I really enjoyed these -- as always!! That container ship is amazing indeed!! Hope you have a wonderful weekend! Enjoy!!
ReplyDeleteThe ship? The railway hauls mile long trains of flat cars loaded with containers. Sometimes piled two high, sometimes two per car, sometimes one per car. So there's a massive amount of goods moved by container. So you look at the ship and wonder how many trainloads it holds.
ReplyDeleteWow that chain is amazing. I've just got to show Ken that later!!
ReplyDeleteThe container ship is nice and colorful. It being so big it is a wonder that it doesn't sink!!
Lovely postcard and beautiful photos, John!
ReplyDeleteVery interesting: the postcard and Google Streetview. I like that.
ReplyDeleteLove that old postcard, back in those times there were some more trees allowed to live than today :)
ReplyDeleteI would like to see such a containership and that anchor chain for myself :)
And the flowers you found in the weeds are very pretty :))
Have a beautiful weekend John!
Tinna ✐
Those postcards look great. And the photos of the Hyundai Ship is out of this world, when taking into consideration the immense size of it and its contents. Those are lovely flowers indeed.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, much appreciated. Do have a joyful weekend!
That anchor cable's weight is amazing! Ha, I have to confess all the containers on that ship remind me of giant Rubik's cubes. I especially love the red roses in the photos of the flowers, and Christmas tree park looks like an interesting place to explore.
ReplyDeleteA wonderful old postcard, nice the images of the containership and the flowers!
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