East Ely Rail Shed
















One of the sheds in the Nevada Northern Railway yards at Ely.

It's number 5 on this map.

There are some more of my images from down that way right here.

What were they thinking?















This was supposed to be a post about the fact that we may now be living in the only small town in the west that does not have its news presence on the web. Or maybe us and BM.

Our newspaper made a half hearted attempt about a half decade or so ago, and after a few months of effort it went dark. I think as far as they got was posting the classified ads. Instead of trying to draw readers to their site with information and content, they tried to make it pay from right out of the box. If you think back, this was in the stone age of website design and content production, and most of their readers didn't yet use or own a computer, and if they did, they were using a slow and difficult first generation dial up connection.

But we did have a brief recap of the news each day, posted by our local radio station. Each day they would post the transcript of the live noon local news broadcast, nothing fancy, but it was a good recap of the most important of local events each day.

Now that source has gone dark. The radio station was purchased on the first day of December by a new owner who lives in the BIG City down in the bottom of the state. January 8th the news page changed to this:

"We apologize for any inconveniences, KWNA is currently undergoing changes to our news department. Please continue listening to our Northern Nevada News, on-air, at thirty minutes past the hour, 5am through 10am and at 12:05pm."

I guess the world really is flat.

The picture above was captured on a wall in Brooklyn, NY during my one and only visit there.

I guess it must have been painted by someone that was lonesome for the farm, maybe someone from California, near San Andres.

New Year's Day on the Flats
















Took a little trip out west this afternoon, to the Jungo Flats, about 35 miles west of town. It was a nice quiet place to spend a bit of the first day of the new year. No people, no birds, no insects, no animals, no sound, no wind, just beautiful space and light. This playa is large enough that you can see the curvature of the earth if you look closely. Its a good place to think about the great wheels at work in the universe.
















I did find this shadow lurking about, watching me over its shoulder.