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On the Road and In Your Backyard

by Alain Chamot (1971-2020)|  December 29, 20185:00 am| 5 Comments

This post is in: On The Road, Open Threads, Readership Capture

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On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.

From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.

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Good Morning All,

On The Road and In Your Backyard is a weekday feature spotlighting reader submissions. From the exotic to the familiar, please share your part of the world, whether you’re traveling or just in your locality. Share some photos and a narrative, let us see through your pictures and words. We’re so lucky each and every day to see and appreciate the world around us!

Submissions from commenters are welcome at tools.balloon-juice.com

 

Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!

 

So sorry I missed yesterday – I am fighting a cold and melted under its assault. No hero, me.

On a very significant personal note, I saw (and roped in 5 family members!) for Thursday’s showing of They Shall Not Grow Old. It was something I will never forget seeing on the big screen. It was a limited engagement but it looks like the documentary will get wider distribution and I cannot recommend anything more highly – see it!

Watch the trailer, remark at the young wasted and yet valiant from 100 years ago. I felt a duty to see this on the big screen and I encourage you to go, do the same. It’s not as grim as you may think, and wow, the transition from traditional B&W(shaky, fuzzy footage) to enhanced shake-free color with sound and incredible depth of field. It was like the transition in the Wizard of Oz, but even more, so much more. I gasped – on the big screen in a theater with high-quality sound, it was amazing. From there, you begin to really connect to so many young men, it’s overwhelming. Just wow. See it.

Have a good weekend, everybody – frolic with a light mind cuz things will get funky in the new year!

 

Today, pictures from valued commenter realbtl.

A few of you liked the previous icicle crop so here are some of my favorite, these lace-like sheets from the metal roof. Western Montana is not the winter horror most people think of, that’s east of the divide. Our weather comes via Seattle instead of the Yukon so we often have winter highs right around freezing. This allows the snow/ice to creep slowly down the roof and then refreeze at night.

Taken on 2018-12-25 00:00:00

NW Montana

Christmas icicle crop.

Taken on 2018-12-25 00:00:00

NW Montana

Christmas icicle crop

Taken on 2018-12-25 00:00:00

NW Montana

Hope the holidays were good to my fellow jackals and don’t forget to fax your credenzas in ’19.

 

Thank you so much realbtl, do send us more when you can.

 

Travel safely everybody, and do share some stories in the comments, even if you’re joining the conversation late. Many folks confide that they go back and read old threads, one reason these are available on the Quick Links menu.

 

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5Comments

  1. 1.

    arrieve

    December 29, 2018 at 7:22 am

    Love the icicles! I’ve been considering a trip to Greenland and having frozen places look appealing may tip the scales in favor of going.

  2. 2.

    debbie

    December 29, 2018 at 8:47 am

    After confusedly thinking this couldn’t be Friday again, I took a look at these photos. The second one is my favorite: Lacy icicles deserves a place of honor in the world of oxymorons.

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    JPL

    December 29, 2018 at 9:01 am

    Brrr!

  4. 4.

    Citizen_X

    December 29, 2018 at 9:23 am

    Seconding the recommendation of They Shall Not Grow Old. It’s beautiful, eye-opening, heart wrenching, and funny. Also strongly recommend Peter Jackson’s short about the restoration process. For example, it was astounding how alive and contemporary these young men became when the exact correct film speed was chosen. (They has found that the camera speeds had been all over the place.)

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    J R in WV

    December 29, 2018 at 10:48 am

    Thanks Alain, for posting this set of silly icy photos even tho it isn’t a weekday. We won’t hold you to it!

    And to be clear it isn’t the photo that’s silly, it’s the sheets of icicles…

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