Erosion
To tell the truth, I don’t recall where I took this photo but I’m going to guess it wasn’t east of the Divide.
The layering caught my eye – eons of sand deposits and run-offs over millions of years in oceans long since turned to dry and dusty lands.
Climate change …
BIG BOY 4014
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I wasn’t there, but it looks like everyone else was.
https://www.wndu.com/2026/06/06/worlds-largest-steam-locomotive-draws-thousands-argos/
I posted a video of this engine on April 28, 2025 passing by Jungo, Nevada – “Speaking of Trains”
I remember, and I commented.
The small town in that article is about 3 hours due north of me.
In fact, the main north-south road in Argos is, with a different name, about 2 miles east of me.
Climate changes regardless of man interaction. I grew up in a small town east of Wichita. Most of the downtown buildings are made of locally quarried limestone. Many years ago Kansas was an ocean.
And now it’s a sea of amber waves of grain.
I remember watching the documentaries of 1870s Kansas (such as Gunsmoke) and am amazed at how fast the mountains around Dodge City disappeared in just about 100 years
I read somewhere that someone did the leg work and found out Dillon got shot about 300 times in 20 years.
Usually in the left shoulder – that zone where there is no pain, no blood, and heals abnormally quickly. You’d think with the number of chunks of lead applied to toughen that spot up, bullets would simply bounce right off – maybe hit the bad guy with a ricochet. (Speaking of ricochet, does anyone remember the comic “Rick O’Shay” (or something like that)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_O%27Shay
What is the most loved smell in the world?
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Scientific research shows vanilla is the most universally loved smell in the world.
A landmark study by researchers at the University of Oxford and Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet found that people from diverse cultures and isolated communities, regardless of their background, consistently rank vanilla as the most pleasant scent.
While our scent preferences were once thought to be purely learned through culture, scientists now know that humans are biologically hardwired to prefer certain molecular structures.
The top universally loved scents broadly fall into a few distinct categories:
Warm & Sweet:
Vanilla ranks first, followed closely by notes like cinnamon and peaches.
Fresh & Calming:
Lavender often tops global public surveys for its clean and relaxing properties.
Earthy & Nostalgic:
Smells like freshly brewed coffee, the smell of rain (petrichor), and freshly cut grass.
How about coal smoke and cylinder oil on hot metal, black power smoke, old leather and pipe tobacco smoke.