Has anyone here ever started a random picture post?

[Tenoch]

My son Tenoch taking a dip on termal puddle, the Hill behind its a good spot...

[2ndoldman]

He seems to be enjoying the dip.

[Cecilia]

Wonderful! Move over Tenoch!

[Tenoch]

Yes oldie, he loves it, it's his favorite place...... Thanks Ceci , there i go

[Uncle Trav]

A gear from mining equipment. Found at the abandoned Nonesuch copper mine in the Porcupine Mountains UP Michigan

[Cecilia]

How You Know You Live With Carnivores: On way to bathroom, must step over Decapitated Monkey Head, Desiccated Cow Femur …

[2ndoldman]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Tenoch]

Relaxing morning dip...

[Cecilia]

Two Tenochs in paradise!

[Olden]

Famous Last Words ~
"I'll give up my artifacts when you pry them from my cold, dead hands!"
Otzi the Iceman

[Narrow Way Knapper]

😂

[Uncle Trav]

I’ve read much about Otzi. He has yielded so much important information about the time in which he lived

[Olden]

I agree - his 5,300yr. old story has it all! Here's the PBS/Nova link to their documentary for those that may have missed it, or want to watch it again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imi-p5T2PWk

[Narrow Way Knapper]

[Uncle Trav]

For those times when you only have a short while to dig for artifacts you have to break out the proper tools.

[PaleoSnow]

We all love our pets, best one i ever had here…..

[PaleoSnow]

Ok another completely random picture BUT 100% true story!
i came across this on one of my hunting “adventures”. Just when i thought id seen it all……. Intrigued about the boat, but im wanting to meet the son of a gun who got in it and navigated it to there! I tried to sell it to all of my hunting and fishing buddies but nobody wanted it 🤷🏻♂️

[2ndoldman]

That looks like something from the island. Check out Nanaimo bathtub races.

[SDhunter]

Would that qualify as red necked?

[PaleoSnow]

Id say ABSOFREAKINGLUTELY! This is AR so…..

[awassamog]

[Narrow Way Knapper]

That's a pretty cute stowaway you've got there. 😉

[Narrow Way Knapper]

Guess how old this White Oak was. I was sad to cut it down, but the tree was dying from Oak Wilt.

[JoshinMO]

In certain areas I have noticed Trees being hollow and in other Areas not as common. Insects possibly?

[Narrow Way Knapper]

Trees do not heal like humans do, instead they rely on chemical barriers called tannins and physical barriers to compartmentalize decay and grow around it. Branch collars separate branch wood from trunk wood and help prevent the spread of decay from a dying branch from infecting the trunk wood. Annual rings act as a barrier and resist the spread of decay. Rays that can be seen in the cross section of some trees help contain decay within a pie shape. A trees strongest method of defence is in the cambium layer with it's ability to grow over defects, add mechanical strength and through cell division creat the corky protective layer known as bark. A trees weakest form of defense, typically, is in the xylem tubes that transport water and nutrients vertically like little straws. A tree will try to plug up the xylem tubes, but most species of trees are not very good at that, so decay spreads faster vertically. That is what forms a hollow trunk.

[Cecilia]

I am sorry, for you as well as tree. I bought house from commercial landscaper who built it 1976. Boy o boy, yard was envy whole big old neighborhood! Alas, each of my many beautiful ornamental wax myrtles got fungus in root balls, and tho I kept cutting and cutting and cutting them back, eventually all stumps. My older neighbor saw me in yard crying a lil while trying digging up roots, and she patted my shoulder, saying “nothing stays same, Cecilia, everything changes, even trees….”

[Uncle Trav]

The last coal fired steamship on the Great Lakes. The SS Badger. Just happened to catch her outbound from Ludington Mi this past weekend. She is a grand old boat.

[gregszybala]

[Josie]

100% true! Should I show the flake mound on the countertop beside the washing machine?😂

[gregszybala]

Yes!

[Tenoch]

one after metal detecting and one after artifact hunting

[CMD]

Sailfin Dragon, Philippine rain forest….

[Tenoch]

Papantla Flyers...