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A new state; a new flower

June 14th, 2010


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Wow!

June 14th, 2010



A remnant of this program.




"Until Only One Monster Remained and He Gobbled Up The Stars and The Earth"

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Finally!

June 14th, 2010



I can unload all these damn antlers.

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Weird!

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Established By "C" Students For "C" Students

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Baby information

June 15th, 2010



She must have just gotten old enough to remove the tag.

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Juxtaposition

June 15th, 2010


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A local chain

June 15th, 2010



"Whale of a Touchfree takes Visa" is not a combination of words I ever expected to see.

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Plains architecture

June 15th, 2010


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Sort-of-palimpsest #3

June 15th, 2010


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What does this mean?!

June 15th, 2010



There was nothing else around to provide context.

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I’m halfway there!

June 15th, 2010



More or less. Mapleton, ND.

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A can garden!

June 15th, 2010


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Birdday party

June 15th, 2010



Happy birdday!

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Another rainy night

June 15th, 2010



And another lovely family who put a roof over my head to keep me dry. Their house has been in the family for over 100 years, and was originally built as the farmhouse for a bonanza farm.

Top row, left to right: Nick, Brandy, Amelia
Bottom row: Braiden, Lily, Harold the dog

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Taking a look around

June 15th, 2010


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But this one was

June 15th, 2010


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Mud art

June 15th, 2010




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Buffalo Cemetery

June 15th, 2010



The most flowery cemetery I've ever seen!

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Buffalo Fire Department

June 15th, 2010


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Buffalo Post Office

June 15th, 2010


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What if you're mailing a flag to the landfill?

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Visual commotion

June 15th, 2010


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A lone silo

June 15th, 2010


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A closer shot of the silo

June 15th, 2010



It's made of brick!




It's that stone set back from the road, obscured by grass, and surrounded by marsh.

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(GRE)ENWOOD CEMET(ERY)

June 15th, 2010


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Awesome mailbox(es) #30

June 15th, 2010


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Agony Acres

June 15th, 2010



I do not understand this sign.




My phone camera doesn't have a zoom lens; hopefully you can read the sign.

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Bird sounds

June 16th, 2010



I love the song about five seconds in.

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A little fire damage

June 16th, 2010





Oriska, ND

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Chevy Rules

June 16th, 2010



Ford Drools

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Homemade windmill!

June 16th, 2010


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SpongeBob

June 16th, 2010



SquarePants

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Junkyard statue

June 16th, 2010


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A vast field

June 16th, 2010



And a wind turbine

(I've already seen more turbines in ND than I had in all the other states combined.)

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Hillside Cemetery

June 16th, 2010



It has its own water tower!

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Eastern North Dakota

June 16th, 2010



It's not all flat.

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Another look around

June 16th, 2010



From this morning; my first upload attempt failed.

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Jenna

June 16th, 2010


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Rainbow Bridge

June 16th, 2010



Over the Sheyenne River. Valley City, ND.

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Grain Belt Beer

June 16th, 2010



That's a new one to me.

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Last night was not rainy

June 17th, 2010



But this morning sure was. These kind folks let me stay in their garage (and fed me pancakes for dinner!) to avoid the storm that swept through early this morning. By the time we finished breakfast the rain had stopped, so I set off down the road once again.

From left to right: Manon, Buzz, Will, Margie

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A field and a train

June 17th, 2010