Maybe we need another clue?Quote:
Originally Posted by CalOldBlue
Like how big this is....?
The states are listed instead of stars in the order that they became states, but I still don't know what this is....
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Maybe we need another clue?Quote:
Originally Posted by CalOldBlue
Like how big this is....?
The states are listed instead of stars in the order that they became states, but I still don't know what this is....
but a closer view of part of it; this should help:
http://donandlindacasey.com/images/M...FlagDetail.jpg
Photo: Don Casey
I must be blind, but that doesn't help me at all.
Mark
... are written on the stripes (the white are easier to read than the red, but both have "writing" on them)?
Another hint: Megan has been here, if my memory of an earlier photo credit is correct.
Found it with the close-up (with a search of the artist's name):
It's in the National Museum of the American Indian. It's made of beads by the artist Jenny Ann Taylor (Chapoose), Uinta Ute (You can kinda read the name at the corner of the blue. http://americanindian.si.edu/searchc...81491®id=52
Originally, I thought that the names in the stripes were rivers, as the few I could read easily were prominent rivers, instead of tribe names.
The stripes contain an alphabetical list of tribes.
The blue field contains (in addition to the already noted list of states in order of entry, plus year of entry) the following quotes:
1) The original version of the Pledge of Allegiance (and author's name)
2) “Some day the Earth will weep, She will beg for Her life, She will cry with tears of blood. You will make a choice, if you will help her or let her die, and when She dies, you too, will die.”
--John Hollow Horn, Oglala Lakota, 1932
3) "We are born free and united as Brothers, each as much a great lord as the other. I am the master of my body; I dispose of myself and do as I wish. I am the first and the last of my Nation subject only to the Great Spirit."
Huron 1693
4) lastly, a disclaimer by the artist
Here's another easy one.
What is the name of this Mountain?
Where is it located?
What is it's significance?
http://inlinethumb49.webshots.com/46...600x600Q85.jpg
Photo by: Jerry Kendrick
Jayree.
I think we may need a clue or three!
Peter
It's Yucca Mountain.Quote:
Originally Posted by jayree
It's in western Nevada.
It's the site selected for long-term storage of nuclear power plant waste fuel.
Foy
The peak is not in Nevada, but it IS in the western US. Here is another photo showing an adjacent peak that may help identify this one.
http://inlinethumb30.webshots.com/42...600x600Q85.jpg
Photo by: Jerry Kendrick
Jayree
I still think we might need a clue -- but if I were to hazards a guess, I would say the "Big Rock Candy Mountain" near Marysvale, Utah?Quote:
Originally Posted by jayree
Clue #1: This peak is not in Nevada.
Clue #2: This peak is not in Utah.
Clue #3 (BIG CLUE): This peak IS on NPS property!
Let me know if you need more clues.
Jayree
Guadalupe Peak is in a national park -- so maybe the highest peak in Texas?
Yea Mark, you got it! Guadalupe Peak (8749 ft.) in Guadalupe Mountains National Park is the highest point in Texas.
Jayree
I doubt I'd ever have recognized the mountain, but there was something about the combination of the clues and the questions that made me think of Texas! So, good job leading us down that path!
Mark
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-128.jpg
(Photo by Megan Edwards)
That lumpy guy in the far right side of the photo is me...
Welllll............
That looks like it might be a Colorado license plate on that thing - would it be safe to assume that this is somewhere in Colorado?
Yep, and I wrote an article about it.... In the not too distant past.
If you purchase tickets at the bus, there's a darn good chance that you'll be in hot water.
Mark
Strawberry Park Hot Springs near Steamboat Springs.
I figured one of those clues/comments would work....
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/Getti...-Springs05.jpg And more photos and my article here.
Mark
This should be rather easy for those who love the mother road.
http://i33.tinypic.com/2q3neav.jpg
I am not a fan per se of the "Mother Road" as folks herein know, but this is a great puzzle photo since so many supporters of historic Route 66 frequent this Forum! But I've got no clue, myself...
Except on the basis of this looking like a sandwich shop... How about Munger Moss Sandwich Shop in Devil's Elbow, Missouri, which is now operating as the Elbow Inn?
Mark
OK, while we wait for confirmation - or further clues - on the Route 66 photo above, here's another one to tackle. Simple question: what are we looking at here?
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/forum...1&d=1255973653
I would've placed the road at either Mt. Lassen or Crater Lake NP, but I'm guessing you are referring to the rectangular box at the extreme top part of the frame?
Mark
Nope, never spotted that tiny black box before so unable to shed any light on it myself. All the winning answer needed were the words "Crater Lake". Well, that one didn't last long did it?
And a bit of judicious Googling would suggest that the Route 66 location is Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-in in Seligman.
I've been referred to in many ways, but one wonders if my eyes are also connected to the same rodent? That's funny that you didn't even see what I thought the puzzle was all about.Quote:
Eyes like an outhouse rat
Good job on Seligman's, Yeah, I should have tumbled to that too!
Mark
I decided not to use the actual term in order to maintain the decorum of this forum but you'll find it - together with a definition - here (along with one or two other choice British English slang expressions). Probably best viewed by open-minded adults only.
Peter
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-mark-129.jpg
(Photo by Megan Edwards)
What is this and where is this?
but I suppose you want to know which one?
Is that NY, NY in the background?
It tis an In-n-Out Burger....
Yep, that is NY-NY --
So, what the location?
Mark
Driving through agricultural areas, I am often struck by the sort of the questions that start out "What the heck is growing there?" So, in that spirit and because I don't think that EVERYONE will know what this is immediately....
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...ark-130jpg.jpg
(Photo by Mark Sedenquist)
What is this plant?
Where do you think I took the photo?
And if you get the second part, what's the significance of this particular crop?
Mark
Central Valley, California.
Largest money/export crop in CA (not counting weed).
(California Almond Growers Exchange in Sacto used to be one of the sites I supported back in my software vendor days).
They harvest these with a machine sort of like a forklift that clamps around the trunk and shakes the bejeesus out of the tree; the ripe nuts fall onto tarps spread under the tree.
What is this, and what Cal graduate, featured in a Ken Burn's documentary, is commemorated by a section of landscape downstream from this location?
http://donandlindacasey.com/images/MysteryRapids.jpg
Photo: Don Casey
Should have held off on the clue a touch. Made it too easy (assuming I'm right)
It's the Great Falls of the Potomac. The Mather Gorge, one of many things nationally named after Stephen Mather, is just downstream.
Those are not almonds and this particular field is no where near the Central Valley of California.Quote:
Originally Posted by CalOldBlue
Look at the leaves -- have you ever seen almond leaves that looked like that?
I didn't think you'd get this one that fast... (and you haven't yet)
Mark
These plants are here because the water table in the area is remarkably high and it's the water (to paraphrase the old beer commercials) that make this product so unique and interesting.... And just to clarify again -- these are not almonds (see posts above)!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
Rarely have I been so sure and yet so wrong.
And yes, Great Falls of the Potomac, as seen from the Virginia side.
Back to the current puzzle.
Pistachios perhaps?
.... and just for grins; about 70 miles east of Tucson?
Don, I've been actively wrong several times on guesses made here -- so I guess you've just joined "the club."
Yes, those are pistachios and not just any pistachios....
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...o-Festival.jpg
Because of the unique qualities of some of the minerals found in the ground water in Newberry Springs, these pistachios are unique in the world, in terms of color, size and flavor....
Mark
My bad, I apologize on the wait! You are in the wrong state first of all, perhaps the term "angel" would help.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist