Tomorrow my sister and I will start out to drive to Minnesota to see our older sister.  Tonight was our last night out on the town, so thought I’d bring you along with us to see a bit of how Sheridan, Wyomingites do things.

Dinner at the Rib and Chop House. Cowboy sort of chow, for sure, as was evidenced by the well-hatted diners at the next table. Jim, minus cowboy hat, failed to fit the pattern as he (obviously) enjoyed his Long Island Iced Tea!

This surreal scene was actually a kid’s meal served in an automobile at the next table.

After dinner, a ride in the city park, where one local has started altering dead trees with a chain saw.

New playground equipment makes me wish to be a kid again for just one slide down that tube side on a sheet of waxed paper!

Something a stranger might drop jaw at is the herd of buffalo. The barn  below is where they seek shelter during snow storms and other inclement weather. Cushy life on the range. There is actually a huge fenced-in  hilltop a few city blocks in size where they are free to roam along with a herd of elk.

Driving home, we saw this young deer dining on newly sprouted leaves of a neighbor’s trees. His herd of five had been at my sister’s house earlier this morning. Tonight, however, we didn’t see the pheasant I saw crossing the road yesterday.

The World in a Nutshell

The prompt today asks us to recommend one book that explains what humans are all about.  I would recommend The Story of Civilization, by  Will and Ariel Durant. It is an eleven-volume set of books (published between 1935 and 1975) covering Western history.  Unfortunately, they died before they could complete the series, but the history of future civilizations was in fact forecast in quotes from various volumes:

I’ve been saving this photo for just the right challenge and I think this is it!  I took it at the archeological museum in Mexico City at least five years ago.

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/05/19/cees-fun-foto-challenge-pairs/

I teased my friend Jane so much about this hat that she ended up leaving it with me in Mexico when she went back to California.  It had come in handy on the night I took this picture of her, however, as we were marooned in the middle of a large lake at midnight.  We were in Patzcuaro and had gone out to look at the Dia de los Muertos ceremonies on an island in the lake.  We hadn’t expected for the propeller to get caught up in fishing nets and for the process of freeing our boat to take hours.  Needless to say, the warm clothing we’d been told to wear came in handy.

I make no excuse for the friend pictured in the above headgear.  The first he actually found in his own closet and yes, it has a tail.  The second reflects his confusion over just what the headscratcher I gave him was meant for.  I later discovered he’d been wearing it out to parties! If you’d like to see more of this silly man, look HERE.

I know, I know.  I already published pictures of hats yesterday, but this morning I discovered these as well and I had to add them to the theme.

http://wheresmybackpack.com/2015/05/15/travel-theme-hats/

                  Ayahuasca brew and ceremonial objects: Amazon.

            Inca Kola, Peru’s answer to Coca Cola!

                                   Most prevalent liquid in La Manzanilla.

                                            International Liquids

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/05/14/cees-black-white-photo-challenge-liquids/

For the prompt, “Enveloped,” I present:

Tide over huge offshore rocks.  A twice daily envelopment.

This guy was entirely ensconced in stretch fabric–even his accordian.  He sang.  It played!!! I’ve published shots of him before, but he is so perfect for this prompt, so here he is again.

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/enveloped/

For my followers, for some reason The Reader didn’t pick up on this post: https://grieflessons.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/honoring-the-hat/

Hopefully, it will post it now from this reposting. (Sorry to those of you who already have seen it.)