Royalty-free images by Mike¹ — No. 127 of over 1200 images

Sunset from Spring Lake RV Resort, Halstead, Kansas, August 13, 2007

Our 2007 late summer, early fall trip started out hot. On the first day of travel, the high in Fort Smith, Arkansas was 105°F.  It was still very hot when we got to the campground west of Halstead, Kansas.  We went into Halstead for pizza, while the air conditioners – our fifth-wheel trailer had two – cooled off the camper.

Fortunately, traveling north, we soon ran into cooler weather.

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2020 Vintage Christmas¹ #22

Wishing you a Merry Christmas.

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. “Wishing you a Merry Christmas.” New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 28, 2020. digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-6376-a3d9-e040…

1. I’m sharing some vintage Christmas images I “collected” from the New York Public Library online digital images. Some are neat, some are quirky and there’s a couple that are downright weird.

Royalty-free images by Mike¹ — No. 126 of over 1200 images

Sunrise over Madison River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, September 13, 2007

Madison River²

The Madison River is a headwater tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 183 miles (295 km) long, in Wyoming and Montana. Its confluence with the Jefferson and Gallatin rivers near Three Forks, Montana, forms the Missouri River.

The Madison rises in Teton County in northwestern Wyoming at the confluence of the Firehole and Gibbon rivers, a location known as Madison Junction in Yellowstone National Park. It flows west then north through the mountains of southwestern Montana to join the Jefferson and Gallatin rivers at Three Forks. The Missouri River Headwaters State Park is located on the Madison at Three Forks. In its upper reaches in Gallatin County, Montana, the Hebgen Dam forms Hebgen Lake. In its middle reaches in Madison County, Montana, the Madison Dam forms Ennis Lake and provides hydroelectric power. In 1959, the 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake formed Quake Lake just downstream from Hebgen Dam. Downstream from Ennis, the Madison flows through Bear Trap Canyon, known for its class IV-V whitewater. The Bear Trap Canyon section is part of the Lee Metcalf Wilderness area.

The river was named in July 1805 by Meriwether Lewis at Three Forks. The central fork of the three, it was named for U.S. Secretary of State James Madison, who would succeed Thomas Jefferson as President in 1809. The western fork, the largest, was named for President Jefferson and the east fork for Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin.

The Madison is a Class I river in Montana for the purposes of access for recreational use.

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1. I am sharing some of my public domain images in periodic blog posts.
2.  Madison River – Wikipedia

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• This image is also shared as public domain on Pixabay,  Flickr, and Pinterest.
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2020 Vintage Christmas¹ #21

Christmas joys.

Raphael Tuck & Sons (Publisher)
Date Issued: 1900 – 1909 (Approximate)

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. “Christmas joys.” New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 28, 2020. digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-673d-a3d9-e040…

1. I’m sharing some vintage Christmas images I “collected” from the New York Public Library online digital images. Some are neat, some are quirky and there’s a couple that are downright weird.

Royalty-free images by Mike¹ — No. 125 of over 1200 images

Badlands National Park, South Dakota, August 23, 2007

Badlands National Park²

Badlands National Park (Lakota: Makȟóšiča) is an American national park located in southwestern South Dakota. The park protects 242,756 acres (379.3 sq mi; 982.4 km2) of sharply eroded buttes and pinnacles, along with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States. The National Park Service manages the park, with the South Unit being co-managed with the Oglala Lakota tribe.

The Badlands Wilderness protects 64,144 acres (100.2 sq mi; 259.6 km2) of the park as a designated wilderness area, and is one site where the black-footed ferret, one of the most endangered mammals in the world, was reintroduced to the wild. The South Unit, or Stronghold District, includes sites of 1890s Ghost Dances, a former United States Air Force bomb and gunnery range,[8] and Red Shirt Table, the park’s highest point at 3,340 feet (1,020 m).

Authorized as Badlands National Monument on March 4, 1929, it was not established until January 25, 1939. Badlands was redesignated a national park on November 10, 1978. Under the Mission 66 plan, the Ben Reifel Visitor Center was constructed for the monument in 1957–58. The park also administers the nearby Minuteman Missile National Historic Site. The movies Dances with Wolves (1990) and Thunderheart (1992) were partially filmed in Badlands National Park.

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1. I am sharing some of my public domain images in periodic blog posts.
2.  Badlands National Park – Wikipedia

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• This image is also shared as public domain on Pixabay,  Flickr, and Pinterest.
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2020 Vintage Christmas¹ #20

Merry Christmas.

H. I. Robbins (Publisher)
Date Issued: 1906 (Inferred)

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. “Merry Christmas.” New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 28, 2020. digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-69ae-a3d9-e040…

1. I’m sharing some vintage Christmas images I “collected” from the New York Public Library online digital images. Some are neat, some are quirky and there’s a couple that are downright weird.

Royalty-free images by Mike¹ — No. 124 of over 1200 images

Abyss Pool, West Thumb, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, September 12, 2007

Abyss Pool²

Abyss Pool is a hot spring in the West Thumb Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park

The pool was named by Chief Park Naturalist Clyde M. Bauer, possibly after a reference to Lieutenant G.C. Doane’s 1870 description of a spring in this area which spoke of the visibility of objects in the “deep abysses” of the pool. A visitor in 1883 described it as “a great, pure, sparkling sapphire rippling with heat.”

Abyss Pool has a depth of 53 feet (16 m). The pool erupted for the first time in recorded history between August 1987 and September 1991 and again between December 1991 and June 1992. The eruptions were between 30 feet (9.1 m) and 100 feet (30 m) high. Since 1992, the pool has returned to its non-eruptive state

1. I am sharing some of my public domain images in periodic blog posts.
2. Abyss Pool – Wikipedia

Notes:

• This image is also shared as public domain on Pixabay,  Flickr, and Pinterest.
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2020 Vintage Christmas¹ #19

A Happy Christmas to You.

Date Issued: 1900 – 1909 (Approximate)

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. “A happy Christmas to you.” New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 28, 2020. digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-69d8-a3d9-e040…

1. I’m sharing some vintage Christmas images I “collected” from the New York Public Library online digital images. Some are neat, some are quirky and there’s a couple that are downright weird.

Royalty-free images by Mike¹ — No. 123 of over 1200 images

Female Lion, Henry Vilas Zoo, Madison, Wisconsin, June 11, 2007

Lion²

The lion (Panthera leo) is a species in the family Felidae and a member of the genus Panthera. It has a muscular, deep-chested body, short, rounded head, round ears, and a hairy tuft at the end of its tail. It is sexually dimorphic; adult male lions have a prominent mane. With a typical head-to-body length of 184–208 cm (72–82 in) they are larger than females at 160–184 cm (63–72 in). It is a social species, forming groups called prides. A lion pride consists of a few adult males, related females and cubs. Groups of female lions usually hunt together, preying mostly on large ungulates. The lion is an apex and keystone predator; although some lions scavenge when opportunities occur and have been known to hunt humans, the species typically does not.

Typically, the lion inhabits grasslands and savannas, but is absent in dense forests. It is usually more diurnal than other big cats, but when persecuted it adapts to being active at night and at twilight. In the Pleistocene, the lion ranged throughout Eurasia, Africa and North America, but today it has been reduced to fragmented populations in sub-Saharan Africa and one critically endangered population in western India. It has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1996 because populations in African countries have declined by about 43% since the early 1990s. Lion populations are untenable outside designated protected areas. Although the cause of the decline is not fully understood, habitat loss and conflicts with humans are the greatest causes for concern.

One of the most widely recognised animal symbols in human culture, the lion has been extensively depicted in sculptures and paintings, on national flags, and in contemporary films and literature. Lions have been kept in menageries since the time of the Roman Empire and have been a key species sought for exhibition in zoological gardens across the world since the late 18th century. Cultural depictions of lions were prominent in the Upper Paleolithic period; carvings and paintings from the Lascaux and Chauvet Caves in France have been dated to 17,000 years ago, and depictions have occurred in virtually all ancient and medieval cultures that coincided with the lion’s former and current ranges.

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1. I am sharing some of my public domain images in periodic blog posts.
2. Lion – Wikipedia

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• This image is also shared as public domain on Pixabay,  Flickr, and Pinterest.
• Images are being shared in the sequence they were accepted by Pixabay, a royalty-free image sharing site.
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• All other images are copyright protected by me, creative commons, or used under the provisions of fair use.