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Windmill Tower Blue Sky

Windmill Tower Blue Sky
Windmill Tower Blue Sky

Windmill Tower Blue Sky

Perspective starts with “seeing” things from all angles. While climbing under this 100 year old Windmill requires agility lol. No choice but scrambling over panels meant to protect the structure from Cattle pressure. The sky was Robin’s Egg Blue pretty much horizon to horizon. I’m a victim of only being able to photograph what is in front of me….. Maybe in this case… what was over me lol.

Windmill Weekend (Windmill Junkies Unite). 🤛🤘 But don’t let your mother know you look at stuff like this.

I don’t take as many windmill photos in the winter now that snow is covering many of my paths. We had several inches of blowy snow yesterday up on the ridges.

From the point of view of this 100 year old windmill. (Re Pete), the sky is not constant. This old fellow is on our ranch about 3 miles into the backcountry via two track roads. I usually work my way out to this guy’s hangout where he gleefully “photobombs” my landscapes…. (It’s a years old narrative if you don’t understand lolol).

Aermotor windmills account for the bulk of windmills out there. The company started way back in the 1888 with 24 sold the first year. By 1892, 20000 had been sold lolol. The company still exists. They also sold a LOT of steel fire “look out towers” for fire watch and being a lightning target lololol.

Windmill Weekend (Windmill Junkies Unite). 🤛🤘 But don’t let your mother know you look at stuff like this.

Windmill Tower Blue Sky

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A Windmill in Winter Wonder Land

A Windmill in a Winter Wonder Land
A Windmill in Winter Wonder Land

Here the oldest windmill on the ranch “Re Pete” is in one of my winter landscapes again. I don’t know the exact year he was installed but I think 1920’s. This brand (AEROTOR) was first built in 1888.


This was from a 10 days ago as it posts… Early snow this year, it’s going to be a long solar minimum. Take it from a geologist that that he sun is the furnace that drives our climates (note the s).

Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands.

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Pronghorn Woman’s Club on Yonder Ridge Line

Pronghorn Woman's Club on Yonder Ridge Line
Pronghorn Woman's Club on the Ridge Line

These 5 pronghorn were having a Ladies club meeting up on yonder ridge line. From my vantage point and just reading lips, they certainly were covering diverse and world important subjects. It’s my interpretation of “Pronghorneese” lip reading that I’m not entirely trusting just yet.🤔
There is actually a lot of communicating going on right here between a mom and her yearling who was lagging behind.🤣

This is beautiful country up here in the borderlands of Montana/Wyoming anyway but accentuated by the sun being low and the shadows long. The rolling hills and parallel ridges cascading lower each mile carved by the Little Powder River hundreds of feed and miles across the landscape. 180 mile horizon to horizon skies are seen from the ridge just above my place. 👁👁

I often find groups of Pronghorn “running” ridges as their highway to where ever they are going. (Like the grass is better there than here. lolol). Native Americans tended to walk ridge lines along the “military crest” of a hill (google look up) so they weren’t back lit at the normal crest by the sky. It’s easy to see movement so “ridge lining” anything photographically is difficult. Animals instinctively stay off of ridge tops and won’t linger long there. Usually they are traveling between water and pasture they prefer. .

Location: Bliss DInosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands.

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Pronghorn Quorum

Pronghorn Quorum
Pronghorn Quorum

A Pronghorn Quorum is when ever there is a buck present. He usually makes herd decisions on which way to go, is bossy as heck and generally likes to lag behind letting his girls see what’s “over the hill crest” first lol. This one had these girls all corralled but I was putting a kink in his style I believe.

I drove away and left them alone with out them running from me. My preferred way to end an encounter. The still watch me but don’t necessarily run from me if I stay in a vehicle. If I get out and they see my human shape….they are a blur and you see their butts…. I’m talking out in the backcountry of course where they don’t see many vehicles but mine.

Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands.

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Channeling “van Gogh” in the Borderlands

Channeling "van Gogh" in the Borderlands
Channeling "van Gogh" in the Borderlands

These I believe are “Bee Balm” flowers and I’m working hard here Channeling “van Gogh) while up in the borderlands best I can. lolol.

I didn’t see any of this group of flowers this year so it may be an every other year flower.

Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands.

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2 Moons One “Sharper” Than The Other

2 Moons One "Sharper" Than The Other
2 Moons One "Sharper" Than The Other

I get little flocks of 10 to 20 Sharp Tailed Grouse, butt in this case…2 moons, one sharper than the other….

This grouse was WAAAAAYYY up a cotton wood tree, about 50 feet, add another 150 feet for my distance from the tree…. 200 feet….maybe….ALMOST enough distance to do this. Seeing the moon was hard enough lolol. Then I had to find somebody to cooperate long enough to set this up ….
Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana.

Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana.

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Snag Framing the Moon at Sunset

Snag Framing the Moon at Sunset
Snag Framing the Moon at Sunset

This very feminine Snag Tree is a favorite of mine at certain times of the year. When the moon and topography lines up, I’m all over this kind of scene.
Without a doubt one of my personal Favorites. The moon fits Precisely into the three branches. They are NOT behind it lol. I do this kind of precision positioning as sort of a requirement of this kind of image.

Everyone have a great weekend and be safe in all you do.

Location: Bliss DInosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands.

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Moon Docking Station

Moon Docking Station
Moon Docking Station

I finally located a rare Moon Docking Station here in the backcountry up in the borderlands. I caught the moon pulling up just ready to take on fuel for it’s continued journey up to it’s zenith. It’s all down hill from there though and back of the bus coasting😂 I bet it get good milage for that part of the trip 🙂 (Actually the earth does most of the spinning…..
Location of the docking station: Somewhere near the Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands..

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Sunny Sunflower

Sunny Sunflower
Sunny Sunflower

Good Sunny Sunflower Wednesday morning….. This volunteer from last years crop came up in one of the larger flower beds we serve here inside our yard.
We do by chance live inside a 10 acre deer “Exclusion” area where high electric fences keep them our of our “yard”. Wide cattle gates and did I mention a lot of electric snap?? lol.
Otherwise, we would have sage brush in our yard and no flowers or trees…..
Location: Patio at the ranch lodge. Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands.

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A D Moon

A D Moon
A D Moon

Good Morning from the Bliss DInosaur Ranch…

Last night….. A “D” moon….. I picked up 16 game trail camera image chips in the back country last night (all the extra chips I had handy). They had only been out a week but we moved some cattle and I had to save them from Licking, rubbing, and chewing by the herd…mostly calves…

Meanwhile acting as a frame for the “D” Moon….. “Re Pete” who lives 3 miles into the bac country. and only get’s in the way of my images there as he can’t navigate through the timbers between my place and his…. The sails get caught in the trees or something like that….🤪🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣

I have no control over the “Pete Bros” actions…

Windmill Junkies Unite: the start of a Windmill Weekend !! 🤘

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Those Kids

Those Kids
Those Kids

Those kids……

Here “Sneaky Pete” the Windmill wasn’t so sneaky as I have definite proof here that he was “Vaping” while he though no one was looking but I have LONG lenses that see a long way. Busted ! 😲🤣🤣🤣🤣

Filed under Odd stuff I see working with normally photobombing windmills…. 

🙂 I have no control over their actions…….(Disclaimer). 🤘🤪