Pompano
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Sights Up North
While visiting some Baja amigos in Manitoba, I chanced upon this...The GAOL....brrrr
No, not a hockey player's training center. THE GAOL is different and somewhat foreboding.
A provincial jail ....... usually housing minor offenders. 
"Not guilty, your Honor, I am indeed within my legal limit of that most delicious fish ..the walleye."
[Edited on 2-27-2010 by Pompano]
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shari
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looks like my old high school!
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Pompano
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shari...how right you are. My old high school looked very similar, too.
...As for visiting The Gaol...good thing these nice Waldos I had mounted were my legal limit at the time I caught them. All nice walleyes, don't you
think?
Not too many fish in the world compare to WALLEYES for the dinner table....mmmmm.
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Pomp,
You need a little more water in your aquarium, buddy !
djh
Its all just stuff and some numbers.
A day spent sailing isn\'t deducted from one\'s life.
Peace, Love, and Music
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Pompano
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RUGBY, NORTH DAKOTA
GEOGRAPHICAL CENTER OF NORTH AMERICA!
Finally! Some recognition at last! The Hub of America!! Call ahead for traffic congestion times.
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Pompano
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NORTH DAKOTA - LIFE IN THE VAST LANE
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Pompano
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Factoid: Clouds Up North Play Charades
Let me guess..
Pinnocchio?
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I love your photos and stories Pompano. You always find a way to entertain us. Thank you! 
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by josie
I love your photos and stories Pompano. You always find a way to entertain us. Thank you! |
¡Gracias, Josie. El placer es mío. I enjoy trying out a new camera and posting the results here. They are not certainly not professional, but I can
qualify as a highly interested novice.
Just for you (and a few others..), here is a herd of wild horse near my birthplace in ND. It has not changed too much over the years..thank God.
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KurtG
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Rugby, ND. My mother's birthplace. Thank God the family got off those prairies and over to the 10,000 lake country in the Minnesota North Woods!
| Quote: | Originally posted by Pompano
GEOGRAPHICAL CENTER OF NORTH AMERICA!
Finally! Some recognition at last! The Hub of America!! Call ahead for traffic congestion times.
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by KurtG
Rugby, ND. My mother's birthplace. Thank God the family got off those prairies and over to the 10,000 lake country in the Minnesota North Woods!
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Your mother has my congratulations, Kurt..a shrewd woman, no doubt. I can only agree that northern Minnnesota has some beautiful lakes and scenery.
Lake of the Woods in particular...and the Rainy River watersheds. I have spent many a year there...fishing and contemplating Nature at it's best.
Where the goshdurn mosquitos are art subjects!
It's all about ...Baja Up North!
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I for one, am really glad you got that new camera.. thanks much.. and the shots are just super, plus the other added.. what's the problem
Thats some pretty looking country .... make we want to.... move a bit
It's all good.. 
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These days, most Up North villages and cities have a resident population of wild Canadian geese in thier city parks & ponds.
The larger geese of this species are commonly known as Honkers. For good reason. They HONK..loudly.
A few hundred of these outside your bedroom window will get your attention!
Thankfully..there is a solution.
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KurtG
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Love the mosquito sculpture! Certainly based on reality. After growing up in Minnesota I have never been able to seriously complain about bugs in
Mulege or anywhere else except maybe Alaska where there are giant mutant relatives of Minnesota mosquitos.
Heading for Mulege two weeks from today.
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National Grasslands, North Dakota & Montana. A wildlife heaven.
Alphalfa bales ... caution: rattlesnake cover
The Prairies are perfect for beekeepers..and hives of pollinating bees are welcome.
Old grain elevators decorate the Great Northern Railway...a remembrance of the wheat baron days.
A family of black bear..cubs are almost ready to go on thier own. Turtle Mts. of ND/Manitoba
I came across these guys near Rapid City, SD. Goats being goats.
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Pompano
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I love sharp cheese. Tillamook Cheese Factory, Tillamook, Oregon Coast.
Coast Gaurd Rescue Boat - Oregon Coast
Crabbing gear
One CUTE and cozy camper.
Columbia River,Oregon side - Bonneville Dam & Fish Hatchery - great gardens.
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Prairie Dinosaur
A vintage grain threshing machine.
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Ah Pompano - Those images of the long straight highway, the grasslands, the beautiful old grain elevator by the tracks.... you've tossed me back to
the visions of my youth, created a big smile for me today.
Those long unbroken expanses.... said to be unbeatable for encouraging the imagination. There's nothing to get in the way of it running wild.
nena
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Natalie Ann
Ah Pompano - Those images of the long straight highway, the grasslands, the beautiful old grain elevator by the tracks.... you've tossed me back to
the visions of my youth, created a big smile for me today.
Those long unbroken expanses.... said to be unbeatable for encouraging the imagination. There's nothing to get in the way of it running wild.
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Nena....It 's 'plain' to me that ....You are suffering from Prairie Rapture...an affliction of the soul when too long away from the Motherland of The
Great Plains. And I can wholeheartedly concur with letting one's imagination run wild. I am sure my folks are smiling right now at that...."Oh yeah,
that's our wild oats boy."
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