Almost everything about these two Remington 870 Shotguns is the same. Almost. Mine is a 12 gauge full-sized model and Damsel’s is a 20 gauge youth model. Mine has a longer stock and barrel, but the receivers and fore-ends on both are almost the same size. If it were not for the gauge difference, I believe they would be the same.
Regardless, we had a great time at the range today shooting these at some paper targets.
We always go to the Botanical Garden in August to view and photograph the gorgeous Dahlias. The garden has a special dahlia garden, exclusively for them, but there are dahlias out in the annual planters as well. This nice example of a wonderfully symmetrical flower is only one of several hundred flowers in the garden and one of many, many varieties of dahlias.
One of the many panoramic images captured during the recent vacation. Taken from the rim walk near Mather point, this view pans left to right from the cliffs near the Grand Canyon Village to Damsel strolling the rim walk looking for her next photographic target.
Click for the big panoramic image.
We both decided that next time we visit the Grand Canyon, we want to go there by rail. We went from Anchorage to Fairbanks and enjoyed ourselves very much. We think that this trip, although not so great a distance, would also be a lot of fun. I’m willing to spring for the extra fare to sit in the top of this domed scenic car so Damsel can take more great pictures of the events and scenery.
Thanks Damsel for this nice shot taken at the Grand Canyon Railroad Terminal. Click for bigger.
And roll they did:
A moderate earthquake occurred at 11:42:15 AM (PDT) on Tuesday, July 29, 2008.
The magnitude 5.4 event occurred 4 km (3 miles) WSW of Chino Hills, CA.
The hypocentral depth is 14 km ( 8 miles).
Damsel and I were at home and at work, respectively, as shown by the two red spots in the shake map below. We both felt a jolt and then about 90 seconds of light rolling with another jolt sometime in the middle of the rolling. I needed to get my sea legs when I stood up to look out of the window. Neither of us had any damage or anything tip over. Bear, our Shepard/Lab mix dog hid under Damsel’s desk for a long time after the shaking stopped.
This week, I’m going through some of the photos we took on our recent vacation. This one, taken at Canyon de Chelly, is of an ancient Native American settlement built into the sandstone walls of this picturesque canyon. This one is referred to as Yucca Cave Ruin. The early settlers built these dwellings around nine to seven hundred years ago. The canyons have been occupied by natives for over two-thousand years. These canyons are in the Navajo Nation near Chinle, AZ. Click for full-sized panorama.
One of the first orders of business after a lengthy road trip is to get the truck washed – at least to get most of the bug carcasses off of the CAPN BOB tags.
We had a great trip! Thanks for riding along with us.