Photo-a-Day  (Thursday, 20th March, 2025)

I can remember when this were nowt only fields .

It definitely does !

Yes Poet very way out west... reminds me of The Bridges of Madison County...though no sign of a bridge in your bleak but picturesque landscape.

Another good photo Poet.
It does have a look of the prairie home where yon native Americans once roamed.
Crazy Horse and his tribe could have lived in Wigin, but they had no dinghy's in them days.

I've never been to Nebraska so I wouldn't know.

Smoke signals in them thar hills men. Pesky Injuns! Keep them wagon wheels rolling….

I don't know about Nebraska but it certainly has a rather creepy, bleak feel to it, and a silence, as if it's waiting for something to happen. It reminds me of art lessons at school where we had to use perspective when drawing telephone wires or train tracks going off into the distance. Helen, I love "The Bridges of Madison County"! When Meryl Streep is in the car with her hubby and can't decide whether to jump out and make a dash for Clint Eastwood....I'm always shouting "Go on lass, shift thisel'" "! But I doubt she'd understand my Lancashire accent! (Poet, I bet you'd never have imagined the wide range of reactions your interesting photo would awaken on p-a-d this morning!).

Stupid me! Nebraska is too Mid West for the Rocky’s but I think they have one called Hogback Mountain.

I've been humming linesman for the county all morning while hoovering bedrooms after seeing this lovely photo, and just as I sat down our phone started ringing, a funny bugger was saying don't cut me off the operator because it seemed he didn't have enough money, she was saying he needed 40 cents more to carry on, I told our Sylvia I think it must have been a wrong number.

Hot diggity dog it sure looks like the mid west, but why y'all over there in Standish lopped the branches offa all them there trees.

Hid um up move um out

I have traveled through Nebraska many a time and yes Nebraska has prairie land, lots of grazing land ... and the beauty of the Sand Hills in western Nebraska. The "Plains States" all look a bit like this photo - North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas - where I live. Beautiful country!

Is that anywhere near that Nursery which has some Donkeys in it ?

Howdy folks . Been out west today to Southport ( and beyond ) for I thought I'd walk out and seek the sea . I could see it gleaming on the horizon in the spring sunshine and thought I'd go for a paddle .
After about 3 miles it didn't seem to be getting any nearer . It felt I was closer to the Isle of Man than Southport . Eventually I came to a little pool that the sea had left and decided to content myself with that .
The water was really nice and warm . Incredible the number of sea shells out there . Cockles and whelks not in thousands but millions .Total peace , quiet and solitude .

' In the din of the crowded streets, going among the years, the faces,
May I still meet my memory in so lonely a place

Between the streams and the red clouds, hearing curlews,
Hearing the horizons endure ' .
(Ted Hughes )

Ah but when it gets windy it blows that hard it blows your house away.

That’s why there’s lots of tumbleweed blowing about..Everybody’s left town you can tell they’ve all gone because the saloon doors are making a squeaking noise. But there’s one lone cowboy sticking his neck out of an upstairs window - rifle at the ready for a shoot out when Audie Murphy appears.. but Gary Cooper steps in and blows their heads off. THE END…No wait a minute Grace Kelly appears in a 2 horse carriage and whips Gary Cooper away for the 3 10 to Yuma. She got the tickets from Glenn Ford to the tune of ‘“Do not forsake me oh my darlin’ on this our wedding dayyyyy” -

You can't whack a Western for great dialogue. . One of my favourites is 'The Outlaw Jose Wales ' .
Clint Eastwood's reply to the Bounty Hunter who explains why he's come for him .
"Mans gotta make a livin ' "
" Dyin' ain't much of a livin' , boy " .

I like John Wayne to a troubled James Stewart ,
" Anyways , yer didn't shoot Liberty Valance " .

You’re right there Poet. A good cowboy classic any day… I’m more for the older ones though ..
Shane, High Noon , 3 10 to Yuma. Yes John Wayne …Rescuing young Natalie Woods from the Injuns “ and AlanLadd fixing that broken cart wheel…Clint always beat the ‘baddies’.