Travel 1929

Yesterday John went to a "swap meet" for train/railroad enthusiasts. Yes, such a thing really does exist. The one attended was presented by the Boeing Employees Model Railroad Club and it takes place annually in Kent, Washington.

One of the items picked up was a copy of Travel magazine, July, 1929. We like the cover.

Travel magazine, July, 1929
Cover art by Winold Reiss
"Falling Over the Water"

Now, lest you think we are most interested in smoking a pipe, no, it's not that, it's that we love the art of Winold Reiss. You regular followers will know we have posted some of his work before [ see Blog Archive --> ] The art on this cover is entitled "Falling Over the Water" Blood Indian from Waterton Lakes National Park, Canada. Other than the information on the title there is no further description inside the issue. If you are wondering: How does this relate to railroads? Well, in 1929, railroads were the primary means of land travel in the USA. The Great Northern, the most northern transcontinental road, was using the art of Winold Reiss in its advertisements to create interest in seeing a part of the world Native Americans called home.

This issue of Travel contains many interesting subjects that can be a nice reprieve from today's modern media.

Last, but not least, we found the back cover amusing. We are not smokers ... guess that's why we can find the humor in it ...

Now, if your curiosity is piqued by what a railroad swap meet looks like, take a look at the 2013 gathering posted here.

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Great Ship Calendar from 1973 [February - March]

For background info, check out our first post on this series here.

More from the calendar in the days ahead.

Sky Update

After Thursday's "Windy Sunset" (posted here ) we had a perfectly clear sunset on Friday.

Saturday, November 8, the moon is lighting up the clouds before dawn. The full moon was on the 6th ... the Frost Moon, so it's waning but still looks nearly full shinning through a thin layer of dotty looking clouds.

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Windy Sunset

A storm blew through Puget Sound yesterday with lots of wind and rain. We could write up a long paragraph about these storms but suffice it to say, We love 'em! The icing on the cake occurred as the evening approached. A beautiful pink sunset colored the clouds across a large part of the sky ... our panorama doesn't do it justice ...

Thursday, November 6, 2014
Sunset after a stormy day
in the Emerald City.

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Linking up today with Skywatch Friday

Great Ship Calendar from 1973 [January]

In a box of really old papers we found a custom calendar from 1973 with some very nice art featuring ships.

The calendar is bound with a plastic comb binding.  Here is the cover ...

An excerpt describes the calendar as a custom production featuring the art of Woodi Ishmael.

The page for January is titled The Lurline at Honolulu, Hawaii ...

At the back of the calendar there are pages that provide info for each months art ...

We can see why we saved this calendar. It's a very nice production and, of course, we love ships. More from the calendar in the days ahead.

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A special Thank You to those of you who left us a comment on yesterday's post about organizing digital image files. Thanks for the tips. We will let you know if we get any great ideas from the new book.

How do you organize your digital photos?

Since we started blogging in December, 2010, one of the most popular posts has been Back Trackin' to Fort Worth (Saturday, February 5, 2011), which included this photo we took back in the mid-1960s ...

That photo was taken with, of course, a film camera. The point is that we enjoyed photography, as a hobby, well before the digital age. Back in those days it was easier to keep track of our photos ... we didn't take so many pictures ... we didn't take pictures every day ... we only had one camera at a time ... we discarded the pics that were not "keepers" ... there was a physical aspect to saved photos that invited organization.

Then, 15 years ago, in March, 1999, we purchased our first digital camera. We purchased the camera the day before a road trip that started on March 3rd, and here is a photo from that first day of digital photography ...

The photo was taken at a "scenic pull-out" along I-84 just east of Pendleton, Oregon. In those earliest digital cameras the manufacturers thought it was cool to put the date stamp right there on the photo, at least that was the default setting. So there it is ... March 3, 1999, 1:29 pm.  Since then we have taken literally thousands of digital pictures and it seems like more each year. That brings us to our current dilemma ... how to organize all those photos so we can find what we want when we want it!

We just purchased a new book by Mike Hagen, copyright 2012 ...

Thousands of Images, Now What? We will let you know if we get some new ideas from this book. In the meantime, we wonder ... How do you organize your digital photos? We are looking for some good ideas.

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Dahlia Garden Wrap 2014

Those of you who have followed us for a while have seen our visits to the Dahlia Garden at Volunteer Park here in Seattle. The Dahlia flowering season is, of course, now finished for the year. We have some pictures to wrap-up this year:  first from a visit in early September, and then how the garden looked last week prepared for its winter sleep.

We did a little research to see how Dahlias are stored over the winter. This article from WikiHow explains how to dig them up and store in containers. Here, in the Volunteer Park Garden, the experts appear to leave at least some of the bulbs in the ground with a dark plastic cover.

So, another gardening cycle comes to a close. Thank you for joining us on our visits to the Dahlia Garden at Volunteer Park. Our previous posts on this garden, this year, are below ...

Thursday May 22

Monday June 9

Tuesday July 29

Thursday August 21

Wednesday September 3

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Mountain Goats [ Great Northern Railway ]

On our recent visit to Yellowstone National Park (see posts in Archive) we were lucky to encounter some rather rare wildlife near the Park ... Mountain Goats ...

Here are a few more pics showing an overview of the location and a closer view of the young goat ...

The location is near Quake Lake
in Southwest Montana

Mountain Goats along US 287 in Montana
near Yellowstone National Park

Closer view of the little Mountain Goat

The Mountain Goat was the mascot of the Great Northern Railroad and appeared in their logo as seen on the antique brochure below ...

The Great Northern was one of three northern-route transcontinental railroads that provided travel to the western part of the USA. The other two were Northern Pacific Railroad and The Milwaukee Road. Some of the GN and NP lines are being used today by the BNSF ... Burlington Northern Santa Fe ... and the Milwaukee Road was abandoned in the 1980s.

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