Nebraska-Dakotas 2014

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Nebraska-Dakotas 2014

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We drove through Nebraska and South Dakota in August, 2014. These pictures start with the second day, on 8/16/14.

Tree outside the car window in Nebraska.
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The flowers seemed so friendly. You can see them waving.
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A little green bug feels right at home.
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That’s it for now.
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Congratulations on capturing our tree on your trip up to the Dakotas. ;)
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Ha! I think the weather was rather uncooperative that day. I was probably trying to show how bad it was, but all I got was bad pictures.

The flowers behaved beautifully.
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This may not look like much on the outside, but it is a museum with lots of things to see.
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All kinds of old vehicles. It wasn’t terribly easy to take their pictures.
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Not a great picture, but a fascinating subject. Horses that pulled hearses wore mourning dress.
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This little boxer graced a vehicle as a hood ornament.
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The little boxer is over a grill I found interesting.
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Old switchboard.
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Old cash register.
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Another switchboard.
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Nice lily.
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Odd flowers.
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Teensy flower.
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Whenever there is a chance to capture flowers…
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…I’ll grab it.
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This place, called “Pioneer Village,” really has a village to visit.
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I took many pictures in and around this old boat. This is where folks could bed down.
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I’m standing on the boat, looking down at the rest of the room. That’s my son, looking at something.
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I guess the boat pulls the car on the water. ; )
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Privileged hotel guests got to ride in this carriage.
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Airport beacons, for anyone who cares.
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The village stockade.
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For the musically inclined.
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For the sleepy.
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For the thirsty.
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For the bored.
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We’re still visiting the Pioneer Village. This is a store where people could purchase dry goods and maybe other things.
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What a crock.
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Checkers, anyone?
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Land office.
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A sign explained how chunks of limestone were used as fence posts. You can see fossils in the stone.
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Firehouse.
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Not sure what this “engine” was used for. Maybe parades.
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A train office, through the haze of history.
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Kids always had a school to attend.
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Here is a shot of the kids and their teacher, all dressed up.
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Not sure what a “sod house” was. I should have read the signs.
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Come and sit or sew for a spell.
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Maybe people will take tours of your house one day. :shock:
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Before the zoo exploded in attendance over the past couple of decades, Harold Warp's Pioneer Village, was Nebraska's #1 tourist attraction. :)

It's actually a pretty amazing collection they've amassed there. The Stuhr Museum in Grand Island is another I-80 'must stop'.
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Oh, wow. I didn't know all that. Thanks for the info.

My grandmother used a wood-burning fire like this. People baked cakes in these things!
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People who live in glass houses...
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…shouldn’t stow thrones.
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We’ll just focus on a small part of the Tiffany shade.
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I took this picture from an angle. So I tried to twist it into shape here.
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Did some adjustment on this one, too.
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Could not get this image to cooperate. Gave up and went with this. Did learn how to use Photoshop’s polygonal lasso tool.
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Inside the church.
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Learned my lesson and went with just the pipes in the originally portrait-oriented image.
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Church window from the inside. Duh.
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I spent way too much time on this one. The results are not worth the trouble.
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Merry-go-round resident. Or two. Or three.
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If you must go around in circles this week, may it be on a merry-go-round. :D
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As we stroll through the Pioneer Village, we see a barn.
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Closer inspection reveals lovely flowers.
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This one jumps out at you.
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The orange lily deserves a closer look.
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Cone flowers love fences...
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…and leaves.
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And barn walls.
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And each other.
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Another stand-out. Or show-off.
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All the buildings were shaded by big, old trees.
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Lots of activity around this building in days past.
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I guess this is an old accordion. It looks like an alien typewriter.
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Stay in tune this week.
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We’re still tromping around the Pioneer Village and looking inside buildings. Here we have someone working on a loom.
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Remember jukeboxes?
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Let’s play.
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Anyone remember the RCA dog?
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If you need a rug, just make one on a loom.
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What can we do with a few blocks of wood?
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Feeling quilty?
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Anyone want to take a nap?
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You won’t fall out of this one.
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Where are all the children?
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When I was a little girl, I was terrified of getting polio and having to live in an iron lung like this.
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My father used to type his engineering reports on a typewriter like this.
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Just listen.
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Nice place to snooze.
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Let’s fiddle with a few flowers.
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Just like when he was back on the farm.
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Why yellow?
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Ditto.
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I wonder what this thing used to carry.
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So many wagons of varying purposes and colors.
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Wells Fargo plastered onto itself.
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Party animals! No, wait. Merry-go-round guys.
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And a few of their buddies.
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Outside we find the real treasures.
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Now go outside and smell the roses.
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