{"id":6760,"date":"2016-06-28T23:14:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T06:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=6760"},"modified":"2016-06-28T23:14:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T06:14:42","slug":"regular-mail-and-air-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/28\/regular-mail-and-air-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Regular Mail And Air Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"

This month, I made two trips to the Eastern Plains. While driving one of the country roads this last weekend, I could not help to stop at this location!<\/p>\n

\"1779-0055-Eastern-Plains-Air-Mail\"<\/a>

Eastern Plains Air Mail<\/p><\/div>\n

During the earlier trip, I stopped by a watering hole along county road CR-81 (or was it CR-94?), where approaching storm clouds moved over the plains. Soon after stopping, cattle approached, probably out of curiosity.<\/p>\n

\"1778-0012-Storm-And-Watering-Hole\"<\/a>

Storm And Watering Hole<\/p><\/div>\n

The stormy clouds were spectacular, with alternating dark and light bands of tones.<\/p>\n

\"1778-0029-Storm-Over-County-Road-CR-85\"<\/a>

Storm Over County Road CR-85<\/p><\/div>\n

During the second trip, I stopped at this abandoned homestead on another county road. By this time the storm clouds had intensified.<\/p>\n

\"1778-0045-Abandoned-Homestead-On-CR-85\"<\/a>

Abandoned Homestead On CR-85<\/p><\/div>\n

I have visited this same house last year, where there was an abandoned piano inside.<\/p>\n

\"1778-0046-Waltham-Piano\"<\/a>

Waltham Piano<\/p><\/div>\n

While making photographs, several Mountain Bluebirds followed me around. They were nesting in the roof timbers.<\/p>\n

\"1778-0055-Abandoned-Room-In-Homestead\"<\/a>

Abandoned Room In Homestead<\/p><\/div>\n

In the late afternoon this last trip, I shot some video footage. After the soon disappeared behind the mountains, the sky was lit with pink colors of the setting sun. I made this panorama of the sunset with my iPhone before heading back home.<\/p>\n

\"ip6s-0480-Sunset-Panorama-CR-81\"<\/a>

Sunset Panorama, CR-81<\/p><\/div>\n

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This month, I made two trips to the Eastern Plains. While driving one of the country roads this last weekend, I could not help to stop at this location! During the earlier trip, I stopped by a watering hole along county road CR-81 (or was it CR-94?), where approaching storm clouds moved over the plains. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[362,1145,1146,1148,18,505,359,992,27,1147],"class_list":["post-6760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general","tag-abandoned","tag-air-mail","tag-coulds","tag-homestead","tag-mailbox","tag-piano","tag-plains","tag-stormy-sky","tag-sunset","tag-watering-hole"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t