Random photos: Got anything interesting, unique, strange?

You can tell your daughter, yes, there is still snow and ice in part of the world yet where global warming doesn’t have a total foot hold yet…
I will tell her I think she just thought it looked picture perfect almost like a postcard. Plus we don’t get snow like this in our area…. I didn’t get snow like that even when I lived in England😂
 
I will tell her I think she just thought it looked picture perfect almost like a postcard. Plus we don’t get snow like this in our area…. I didn’t get snow like that even when I lived in England😂
Well, be sure to tell her, if she would like to, she's free to use it or any other picture I post to make post cards with. I think that would be great!
 
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When 4 doors just isn't enough.

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Forgot to post this one around Christmas (I think lol). This is a picture I took. Behind the last deer head is a server I was there to work on. I didn't want to move these myself, so asked someone that works there to do it.

I was going to caption it with: Prancer? Dancer? Rudolph? Oh no, Christmas is ruined!


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A piece of mining history still standing. It is said to be one of the first miner's cabins in the Cobalt area in the early to mid 1890s. The road used to be between the cabin and the creek. (Not sure when the road was moved over from the opposite side of the creek, I can't find any literature on that.)

"Copper mineralization in the Blackbird Creek area was discovered in 1892, and the area was soon explored as both a copper and gold prospect. The area was first mined by Union Carbide at the Haynes-Stellite Mine located south of the present FCC claim block, during World War I. Union Carbide mined approximately 4,000 tons of cobalt-bearing ore before ceasing operations, reportedly due to excessive mining costs."

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A good look at the many different layers created by the "ice shelf" process the creek goes through every winter. The inversion we've been under for the last week and a half has kept temps above freezing at higher elevations causing warmer faster water to cut through the shelves. It could get interesting once the upper elevations drop back down and stay below freezing..

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Seeing any wildlife . . . . . deer, moose, or elk?
Coyotes ?
I see deer fairly often, coyotes and fox every once in a while, and wolves sporadically. I saw a lone doe antelope last week when she ran across the road in front of me. I've seen a total of 4 moose on the route in the 6 years that I've done it, one huge bull about 500+ yards away, a cow and a her calf about 100 yards off the road (they stayed in the same place inside a fenced pasture for a week) and then you young bull just last summer ran out beside my truck almost hitting me then ran about 3 miles down the road in front of me before it went back i to the creek bottoms. One of the security guards/EMTs that works for the local mine had a cow moose run up the road toward the guard shack she was in just a few days ago, with a road grader not too far behind it. The Elk herds tent to wait until after dark to co.e down and then head back up before dawn. I do see wolf, coyote, and fox track walking up and down the road all the time. I might have some picks on my external drive. I'll have to check tomorrow.