I'll ask my dad about the U-2 spy plane. He actually sent me the same link you posted just a moment ago as well. He also said that my Uncle Bud (Roberts) won state with his girls basketball team from Wayside. It included my Aunt Lucy and Aunt Neva.

I'll let you know what he says about the U-2 spy plane. There aren't a whole lot of different families out in the Wayside area, so either someone from my family or another family that we know is sure to know something about it.

No need to make a special trip for pictures. My brother still lives at Vigo Park along with my grandmother, two aunts and uncles, and my cousin over by happy. Parents are in Canyon still. So I drive by Wayside two or so times a year when I'm up for the holidays.

It's just always nice to see pics from home.

Here's more Panhandle standbys....

One of the amazing sunsets (and amazingly dirty lens, sorry)


IMG_2698 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

And the ever-popular thunderstorm blowing up over someone else's county.


IMG_2695 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

Wow, great pics. Thanks Canyon, and Chocolate.

I must have jinxed myself. My macbook crashed shortly after posting the request. I went back with a PC and I am just now back online.

Canyon, got a story for ya.

I was raised by a neighbor there in Hart. He carried me everywhere and taught me every vice I have to this day. He lived one mile north of Paul Armstrong. So I am sure you have passed his house. May he Rest In Peace.

His name was Jack Dyer and he was quite a Rounder and heck of a story teller.

He told me a story one time when he was in High School about playing a tournement at Wayside. He said that they did not have a gym and the tourneyment was outside on a gravel/dirt packed court. One side was not in very good shape so the ending part of the tourney they played on only one basket. Cotton Center (his team) got into the Finals. And before half time the basketball got "called" due to rain. Never heard of a basketball game called due to rain before.

This would have been in the early 50's.

Yes, Canyon, he was from Cotton Center. Near your old stomping grounds. His dad's name was Bud Dyer.

Biscuit, the computer problems caused me to miss the message that Lacy's father passed. They buried him on Monday.

Crazy how much we now depend on these devices.

Thanks again for the pics. Much appreciated.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Killer-K,

Did you see the old tractor thread over on Automotive? It had a bunch of pictures from the Paul Armstrong estate. I've got a boatload more pics from Paul's sale if you want to see them sometime.

I would love to see them.

Wmka89 on y ho.

Paul was a very interesting man.

If I deciphered your email correctly, a link is on the way.

Again, I'm stretching the definition of "Panhandle". But I figure just across the border and in land claimed by Texas in 1845 is close enough.

So yesterday, I went after some eclipse photos. Dealing with lots of cloud cover and not being under the path of totality, we went to NM, and ended up at Oasis State Park, between Clovis and Portales, and south of Cannon AFB. It is also just west of the Blackwater Draw archeology site, where the Clovis point was found.

We did take a welder's helmet, and tried some pinhole cameras (with little success) but the best thing we came up with was the binocular trick. Take a cheap set of binocs. Make a shade with one eyepiece sticking through. Place on tripod. Set up a bit of white paper behind the binocs at a right angle to the line of sight. Watch the show.


viewing device by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

While waiting for the eclipse to develop, we enjoyed the wildlife. Saw the heron below. Also saw kingbirds, dove and swallows. Heard mockingbirds and bobwhite quail. The weirdest thing was a buzzing sound we heard like a bullet going over. A guy nearby said it was a swallow pulling out of a high speed dive. Pretty cool.


heron in tree by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

The image projected on the paper is inverted, btw.


projected image by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

Here's a shot at about the same time that shows the sun "right side up".


using welder's helmet as filter by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

So the total eclipse is getting closer


projected image by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr


through welder's helmet by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr


crescent sun by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr


projected image by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

The payoff, the "ring of fire".


ring of fire 1 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr


ring of fire 2 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr


ring of fire 3 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

And I'm a sucker for sunset pictures. Add an eclipse, and I'm off. I think the intense red is a combination of the clouds, haze and fires in Arizona.


sunset 1 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr


sunset 2 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr


sunset 3 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

sunse 4 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr


sunset 5 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr


sunset 6 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

sunset 7 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr


sunset you don't see everyday by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr


...and about gone by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

Cool eclipse pictures.

Just Amazing.

Since the board is as dead as a doornail, how about some springtime baby horse photos?


IMG_2866 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr


IMG_2869 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

Several fields of sunflowers in Hale County this year.


IMG_2899 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr


IMG_2902 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

Wow, what a great thread! I am from the panhandle, Channing & Canadian, I really miss the people out there. Truley salt of the earth, thanks for the pictures and the walk down memory lane!

Few critter pics


IMG_2904 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

This little guy came up to the equipment where I was working. Is it a baby medowlark?


IMG_2913 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

Came home, and a cottontail was lounging under a tree in the front yard


IMG_2923 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

Keep them coming Canyon. I am not up in Chicago for the summer. So any Panhandle pics are as always appreciated.

Before we left Childress years ago, my kids played with horny toads. It is a great memory for them.

Have you seen the Texas Horned Lizard thread on Outdoors?

@canyonag77: your pics reminded me of a guy from Alto, NM....http://exposesure101.smugmug.com/

FYI - I spent the formative years (3-15) of my life in Hereford.

Gig 'em &
Happy Trails

Thanks, though he is obviously a better photographer. I'm a pretty decent amateur. Maybe someday I'll buy some newer equipment and do better.



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Decided to bore you with more.

From 2010, back when it rained:


IMG_0096 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr


IMG_0099 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr


IMG_0100 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

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IMG_0103 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr


IMG_0104 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr


I can't resist sunsets


IMG_0261 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

Palo Duro Canyon, with water in the creek


IMG_0480 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

Lake Mackenzie, without much water


IMG_0753 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

Cactus bloom, TexAgs filter won't let me say what kind


IMG_2717 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

Bull snake, doing his rattlesnake imitation


IMG_3010 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

and sunsets...


IMG_0880 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

and sunsets


IMG_0881 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

Wait, what's this? Another sunset....


IMG_0955 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr

Canyon, thanks for the additions.

Canyon,

Time for some harvest shots this fall. My second favorite time of year. Except for the allergies it would create.

IMG_3118 by CHS Girls Soccer, on Flickr