Your hints are pointing to someplace that's not in North America...........
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Your hints are pointing to someplace that's not in North America...........
I wouldn't be so sure ;)
http://vefir.mh.is/kentb/P5112589midlina.jpg
You win - that's Strokkur.
{Shuttlecocks in KCMO}
Love this place :)
I had never heard of this place or seen any photos -- Good one! Very cool.
Mark
The Nelson/Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri have the largest badminton shuttlecocks (or birdies) in the world... And here's a bunch more photos of this exhibit!
Great photo!!!
Mark
It's an awesome place to visit if you've never been. A very nice museum with Art and History (FREE admission! donations only) plus i believe they have a mummy now too :)
and lots of people enjoy picnics on the "Nelson Lawn" because it's Huge and the grass is thick and lush.
Also just across the street is the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and The Kansas City Art Institute. They also do Shakespeare in the Park in that neighborhood in the summer time
I saw Othello there a couple years ago... Very Good!
Now for a tough one.
Where is this?
http://homepage.mac.com/erich_oetting/pics/dinos.jpg
Someplace where it snows....
I love that angle and composition for the photo.
Mark
... and Mark's astute spot of the melting snow suggests I probably am but ... this doesn't look like a permanent exhibition to me. Who would site a dinosaur where 90% of it was hidden?
There's something about the architecture of the building that says this could be San Diego Natural History Museum (although a Google of "snow in San Diego" suggests this is unlikely!)
This is a permanent exhibit in a place that gets a lot more snow than San Diego. Whoever decided to set this up had a sense of humor.
Your guess about the architecture is on the right track.
http://homepage.mac.com/erich_oetting/pics/dinos.jpg
So is this a Brachiosaurus and a velociraptor?
though raptor doesn't seem right... the arms and claws too look more like t-rex arms....hmmm
No, it's a Camarasaurus and a Ceratosaurus.
These two appear to be made of fiberglass, but fossil remains of both species have been found in the same state where this photo was taken.
it's in the courtyard of the parking structure at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Where/What is this?!?
{mindfield sculpture, TN}
That'll be the Mindfield, a sculptural memorial to the parents of artist Billy Tripp. It's located in Brownsville Tennessee and is constructed from materials salvaged from old buildings, auto parts and suchlike.
Can anyone identify where this is?
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4065/...7cb9739db7.jpg
You got it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pfemm
Peter, I think this looks like Cathedral Gorge State Park near Panaca, Nevada on US-93. It is an otherworldly place and one that I've wandered in a couple of times.
And I still love that shot of the encounter between the Camarasaurus and the Ceratosaurus from above!
Mark
... and yes, you're spot on with Cathedral Gorge. It's an amazing place made up of narrow ravines formed by rainwater erosion of the soft mudstone (which does actually look just like dried mud).
Here's another photo - with something of an X-Files feel to it!
http://www.thody.net/_Media/carole_t...athedral_g.jpg
That is AWESOME!!!
Must. go. there. :)
{Route 66, first gas station in Tulsa, OK}
I think it might be time for some clues ;-)
it's off Route 66 in a Southern state..
it was built in 1924 in an Art Deco style...
Built as a 24 hour service station, the attendant lived in the dome.
AZBuck
Yes indeed :)
there appears to be a lull...
That's Guadalupe Peak in TX.
Where is this abandoned café?
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/...13791b96f1.jpg
My SWAG on the abandoned cafe' is:
Tucumcari, New Mexico.
Foy
Nice to see Gen back here -- and very cool photos the last couple of puzzles.
Mark
No it is not in Tucumcari, but not that far from it...Look north of there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Foy
Ok another hint : it's located in a semi ghost town along highway 54Quote:
Originally Posted by Quebec Gen
That is in Nara Visa, NM.
Yep, you got it, Nara Vista.Quote:
Originally Posted by glc
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Wow, what a pretty shot.
Looks like limestone cliffs and nearly sub-tropical vegetation....
I like the canoe and tent!
How about someplace in Arkansas?
Mark
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Back here on the Right Side of the US, limestones are valley-formers and bluffs such as the one pictured are the cliff-formers. That being said, given where I think this location is (Boston Mountains section of the Ozarks in northern Arkansas) the bluffs might well be formed by a particular cherty limestone, where the chert (amorphous silica) gives the limestone some hardness and more resistance to erosion. The groundwater-driven dissoulition properties of carbonates back east forms sinkholes and karst topography where the beds are more or less flat-lying and forms valleys where the beds are folded and "on edge", such as is the case in the Great Valley and Ridge province west of the Blue Ridge in PA, VA, and TN.
My money's on Buffalo National Scenic River, Arkansas.
Foy
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One of my geology professors said, 35 years ago, "he never forgets anything he sees in the field". For better or worse, it's true. Just don't ask me what I had for breakfast today.
There are certain clues which led me to the Buffalo. Mark got the first one--the subtropic vegetation. Once narrowed down to the southern midwest, deep south, or southeast, it's a question of "where are the more or less flat-lying sedimentary rocks featuring bluff-forming stratigraphic units". Parts of WV, KY, OH, TN, AL, AR, and OK then come to mind. The canoe and tent were the next clue: an often-paddled river within a park setting. Having been to the Boston Mountains back in '78, and knowing the Buffalo is a National Scenic River, and seeing how cool the shot was, I then just guessed.
Foy
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I spent the better part of four days exploring the road-access parts of the Buffalo National Scenic River in Arkansas a few years back and that's where my guess of "somewhere in Arkansas" originated from. But by not pulling the trigger on that guess -- we're all beneficiaries of your geology knowledge. Thanks for sharing!
Mark
Very very cool...This is definitely on my list of places I want to explore some day soon. :)
I can't wait to be able to answer one of these pics from experience! I love traveling but I haven't actually been able to do much yet... other than regular visits to a nearby wildlife refuge.
We're are almost to the point where we will have a lot more free time (1 more yearish)! all that steady grinding will pay off. so before long ... I will be there... in that canoe and tent!
I'm getting excited already! :D
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Another great photo -- but since you mentioned (above) that you've not done much traveling... I just need to confirm... These are your photos or ones that you have the rights to...?
I see a water tower in the background -- but not much else to go on....
Hmmm.... I'm a little concerned -- this looks like the photo you uploaded: click here
If you find photos on the Web and copy them and upload them as yours -- you will lose your membership account here.
In any case, this would be the Sand Island Light House, Dauphin Island, Alabama.
Mark
oh no! I did not know that! I was posting places I wanted to go. other than the Alaska pics. i did do that for sure!
I will not post anything not mine anymore! thank you for the clarification. I must have initially skimmed the rules and missed the "your own" part. I sincerely apologize. I don't want to lose my account!
guess if i do post any more you'll all know it's in the midwest/south.
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Thanks,
Mark