LARAMIE WAS STORMY THIS TIME AROUND

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IMAGES FROM LIED LODGE AND J. STERLING MORTON MANSION AT ARBOR DAY FARMS IN NEBRASKA CITY, NE

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AN IMPROMPTU STUDY OF INDIGENOUS CLOUDS: THEIR VARIOUS FORMS, DEMEANORS, AND SONGS

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IMAGES FROM THE WYOMING TERRITORIAL PRISON MUSEUM AND OLD WEST PARK IN LARAMIE, WYOMING

Butch Cassidy’s Territorial Prison Mug Shot

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ON SNOWY RANGE ROAD

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UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING INSECT MUSEUM = A LITTLE SLICE OF HEAVEN!

I remember I used to beg my dad to take me through the Agriculture Building when he picked me up from the University Lab School I attended — it was on the way to the parking lot where he sometimes parked — because I loved, loved, loved to look at the insect mounts in the hallways. Now there’s a nice little museum.

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THE LARAMIE RIVER

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THESE ARE THE LANDMARKS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, IN YOUR NAY-BOR-HOO-OOD . . .

LaPrele Park, By My Parents’ House, On the Way to Thayer Elementary School

Antelope on East Side of LaPrele Park (Note the characteristic heart-shaped bum!)

Close-Up of Antelope

Spring Creek, Facing Eastward, in LaPrele Park

Spring Creek, Opposite Direction

Huck Finn Pond, LaPrele Park

Oddfellows and Where the Old Drugstore (Center Pharmacy) Used to Be

Old Insurance Building (University of Wyoming Football Stadium in Background)

The Old Bandshell in Washington Park

Stretch of Road and Field Behind My Parents’ House Leading Out to the Highway

Electricity Station Behind My Parent’s House

More Electricity (Now try saying it all Twin Peaks-y/David Lynch-y – “Eleccctrrriciteeeeeeeeee!”)

Laramie Water Tower = Old Timey High School Make-Out Spot

Water Tower, With Antelope

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MISSING THE MOUNTAINS

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WITH TWO CATS IN THE YARD / LIFE USED TO BE SO HARD . . .

The Rotary Dial Phone Has a Bandage (or is it a Diaper?) Made of Masking Tape!

A Mysterious Collection of Plastic Caps Atop the Arthritic Refrigerator which Makes Strange Noises and Which, My Parents Keep Pointing Out with Weird Glee, is Older Than I Am!

Note on the Cupboards by the Stove

Kitchen

Dining Room

Living Room

My Old Bedroom, Which Has Since Been INVADED by Hoarding Geriatric Aliens, and Which I am FORBIDDEN to Enter – FYI: Am Going Straight to Hell for Posting this on the Internets

More of Artichoke Heart as a Wee Thistle

View from the Back Porch (I used to spy on our neighbors with my pirate’s telescope – the guy in this house liked to walk around at night in his underwear!)

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