Monkey See, Monkey No See
Love this large sculpture on the street in Sheridan, Wyoming. I could be kept busy for days photographing all of the public sculpture here. This one, I think, qualifies as an oddball.
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/07/08/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2016-week-27/
OKCforgottenman furnished the name of this flower. If you want to check to see if he’s right, you can look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepias_tuberosa
Glass En Masse
It’s sometimes seen as goblets stored upon a shelf
where you can either look right through or stare back at yourself.
In a glass of tea leaves, your future may be spoken,
but its message like its holder may slash us when it’s broken.
It is a perfect metaphor of all that we may be––
on one hand pure distraction, on the other help us see.
Whether it’s a looking glass or one you see right through,
The glass you stand in front of mostly tells us about you.
Twisted Sister: Columbine
(For my definitely-not-twisted sister Patti on her birthday. I never see columbines without thinking of mother, do you? This one is from our friend Patty’s garden.)
https://ceenphotography.com/2016/07/08/flower-of-the-day-july-9-2016-hydrangea-garden/
More images of Sheridan, Wyoming. A new baby buffalo in the elk and buffalo reserve, concerts in the park, more public sculptures, old buildings and signs mixed with new, an old theater where a drama festival takes place every summer and plays and music are staged throughout the year, interesting stores, restaurants and cowboys boots in size 0 to 15!!!
True or False?
If every question had an answer clear as yes or no,
and we could more easily know the status quo,
life would not be so puzzling. The answers would be clear
about how we should run our lives. There would be less to fear.
In matters of importance, like college choice or major,
there would be less pondering and mistakes made, I’ll wager.
Our choice of whom to marry and everything we do
could be laid out on paper, put clearly in our view.
No more “to be or not to be.” No more mental maybes
when it comes to our decisions over houses, pets or babies.
Life would be just a check list labeled ” false or true”
with no equivocating over what to do.
The infinite variety of choices we now face
that have us always questioning at a faster pace
would be a simple matter—clear cut with no debate—
an indisputable right or wrong about whom we should date.
The lines would grow much longer for every “true” or “yes”
with all the “nos” and “falses” left lonely, I would guess.
With all things predetermined and all things black and white,
there would be just two choices over what was wrong or right.
No more essay questions. Each decision plain and clear.
At every choice we’d know exactly which way we should steer.
No doubt life would be simpler and easier in its scoring,
but I am also pretty sure that it would be more boring!
Dozens of remarkable bronzes line the city streets and public places of Sheridan, Wyoming, a remarkable western town in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming just south of the Custer battlefield. From Sacajawea to everyone’s favorite rhinoceros, they have come to reflect the progressive western spirit of a town whose main street still thrives with western stores, antique stores, the famous King Ropes Supply and museum patronized by the British royal family, galleries, bars, bakeries, coffee shops, vintage candy stores and even its original J.C. Penney’s Store still open for business!
Their polo field draws top players from around the world–at present, the top Argentinian team. The Sheridan rodeo, about ready to commence, presents events unseen elsewhere, including a Native American Wild Pony relay race complete with painted ponies and indigenous dress and warpaint characteristic of the participating tribes. Golf courses, hunting, skiing, fishing, world-renowned dude ranches and unparalleled beauty make the town a popular destination for travelers from all over the world. If you’re coming to Wyoming, don’t miss it.
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For 109 years, people have been saying “Meet you at the Mint” in Sheridan, Wyoming. The oldest bar in town, some of its stories are written on the walls, others rebound in the memories of some of the old timers who go there. The photo on the back wall over the pool table shows a lone cowboy astride his horse watching a mile-long string of cattle make their way through the snow. Below the photo, the cowpokes at the pool table turned out to be visitors from Great Britain fresh from a week of cowboy lessons in Montana. The attractive bartender enjoys the lull before the hordes descend for the upcoming rodeo, when she will be joined by 5 other bartenders to deal with the crowd. Silent witnesses above the bar give testimony to the fact that this is hunting country. The embossed walls show off local brands.
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