Cool Nature Photos

[Dftodd]

The sunrise this morning

 

[dj1701]

Took this the other day before all wonderful weather arrived. Sometimes sunsets look better with them at your back.

 

[deserteagle71]

Corral and windmill, Buffalo Valley, Nevada:

No, there are no buffalo in Buffalo Valley. And probably never have been so I don't know where the name came from.

 

[kenmbz]

Corral and windmill, Buffalo Valley, Nevada:

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No, there are no buffalo in Buffalo Valley. And probably never have been so I don't know where the name came from.

I guess from the same person who named Buffalo in NY ?

 

[EddieWalker]

Does the snow get down to the flat land?

 

[deserteagle71]

Does the snow get down to the flat land?

Most winters, yes. Hasn't happened this winter season though.

Plowing my driveway a couple years ago:

 

[Highlandr]

No, there are no buffalo in Buffalo Valley. And probably never have been so I don't know where the name came from.

Wikiknowitall says... Buffalo Valley was so named on account of buffalo grass in the area.

And... There is a giant concrete arrow, a remainder of over 1500 built in the USA during the 1920s to enable US postal service aircraft navigate more easily prior to the addition of in-craft radio.

You can usually find those on google maps, but I haven't found that one... yet.

 

[deserteagle71]

Wikiknowitall says... Buffalo Valley was so named on account of buffalo grass in the area.

And... There is a giant concrete arrow, a remainder of over 1500 built in the USA during the 1920s to enable US postal service aircraft navigate more easily prior to the addition of in-craft radio.

You can usually find those on google maps, but I haven't found that one... yet.

Those navigational arrows are all over northern Nevada:

Many of the mountains also have the remains of acetylene-powered navigational beacons (lights) on them for the pilots to follow at night. The Fresnel lens has been shot out of this one closest to my house. No roads up to these beacons so they must have hauled the acetylene bottles up to them on mules or donkeys. The bottle connections are still in the enclosure at the base of the beacon.

 

[snymat68]

Took this the other day before all wonderful weather arrived. Sometimes sunsets look better with them at your back.


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Nice. What's the source of the circle in the snow?

 

[dodge man]

Nice. What's the source of the circle in the snow?

It’s like a mini crop circle.

 

[BleedingOrange]

Looks like an old transport truck wheel rim that might be used for a firepit in the summer.

 

[MossRoad]

Nice. What's the source of the circle in the snow?

A lost mouse.

 

[kenmbz]

Wind blown snow looks so smooth.