The Side of the Road ...

I almost threw this picture away.

I found it in Grandma G's album of a road trip she and Grandpa G took in 1981.

The shot was taken next to a road ...

Somewhere in the Southwest US.

It looked rather boring and plain.

Then I looked closer. At the little windmill in the center. At the dry creek bed, and the tire tracks going up the hill behind ...

I noticed the sagebrush and imagined the scent ...

Then I noticed the split beam guardrail. Wow. No metal here!

I decided this is a picture worth keeping.

And scanning to share on Jane's "Vintage Weekly"!!!

Wild Wild West - Friday's Fences

I was entranced by this picture I found in Grandpa and Grandma G's photo album from their trip through the US Southwest in the early 1980's.

Don't you just love this fence and gate?

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Grampa Hugs a Tree!

This is another of Grampa and Grandma G's photos from their early 1980's Western US Road Trip album.

I had to giggle to see Grampa being silly - hugging the only tree around!
And check out those desert shadows!

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Big Horn Restaurant

This is yet another wonderful Wild Wild West photo I found in Grampa and Grandma G's old photo album ... I believe it was from a road trip in the early 1980's.

The picture is a little blurry, but the sign on the restaurant reads
"Big Horn Restaurant".
Now I wonder why they named it that???

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Grampa and Gramdma in the Wild Wild Wet

Wild

Wild

WET

These are some more photos I found in one of Grampa and Grandma G's old photo albums.
Location: Somewhere in the US Wild Wild Wet ... er, West!

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Trees of Mystery ...

This is another picture I found in Grampa and Granda G's travel album.
As before, I don't know the date this was taken ... sometime in the 1970's or 1980's.
But this time I do know WHERE it was taken -
Do you see the little sign peeking out between the legs of the statue?
"Trees of Mystery" - Northern California US.

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Carriage House Cellars ...

Another Grampa and Grandma G picture taken sometime in the 1970's to 1980's ... somewhere in the Western US.

How's this for tacky touristy fun?

Although I do wonder why they advertise "Ice Cold Beer" -- at a wine tasting room ...

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Eavesdropping Gnomes - Sunday Scans

This is another of Grandpa and Grandma G's photos taken on one of their many road trips throughout the US West during the 1980's. I recognize these ladies as being friends of Grandma G's, but I don't remember their names.

I thought it was cute that they were so intent on their conversation that they failed to notice those eavesdropping gnomes right behind them!

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