Comments | hannah_nutwood: "i hear the birds complain about the lack of the rain."

hannah_nutwood

"i hear the birds complain about the lack of the rain."

Aug 04, 2010 19:48

the weather here is still bearable at a balmy 25°C. i don't think that it rained once this july, which is rather unnatural for these parts. i've grown accustomed to not worrying about it raining because it just seems so unlikely. how soon i forget ( Read more... )

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caveat_lect0r August 5 2010, 03:48:29 UTC

Those pictures are amazing! In fact, I'm wondering if Faro Caudill might not be distantly related to me, since that's my paternal grandmother's maiden name, and she had family near Pie Town in the 40's. I've never seen so many color images from that era, and these are incredible.

ETA: I've also been to the Camp Bird Mine in Colorado, and it's so bizarre to see a photo of it when it was in operation. It looks very, very different now.

Good luck with your continuing wedding plans. Your spaghetti tin transformation turned out beautifully.

hannah_nutwood August 5 2010, 19:45:39 UTC

i'm so glad you liked them! i thought of you as soon as i saw the photos so i had to share them. that's really neat that mr. caudill could be related to you. it might be a fun thing to try and trace back.

your photos of abandoned places are so fascinating. do you have any from the camp bird mine?

caveat_lect0r August 5 2010, 20:26:12 UTC

After talking to my dad, it turns out he definitely is: my grandmother's uncle, so my great-grand uncle. I actually dug up a photo of his house that I'd scanned myself last year (hurr durr), and two of his children sitting in front of it. Pretty amazing coincidence, really.

I don't have any digital photos of the mine, since I last went there when I vacationed in Colorado as a kid, and didn't have my own camera. I'm sure my mom has prints somewhere. I should go look for them.

Again, thanks for sharing the link!

hannah_nutwood August 6 2010, 19:54:54 UTC

that is so neat! it must have been quite a privelege to be one of the first people in america to be photographed in colour. i've often looked at old photographs and wondered where their descendants are now or, alternately, wondered if there is a person somewhere looking at a random old photo on the internet and exclaiming "hey, that's great-great aunt so-and-so!" turns out that it does happen :)

would you mind posting that photo of your great-grand uncle's house and kids? (i'm super curious/nosy)

planetnanaimo August 6 2010, 17:36:44 UTC

The spag tin is way awesome. :) And the new flooring is...interesting. How much longer?

I worked as a props master for a play when I lived in Williams Lake in 1994. For the on-stage "carpeting", we installed corrugated cardboard and then spent an afternoon walking on it to mash it down somewhat. Even from as close as the front row, it looked like carpeting. Old time stage trick, I guess?

Those photos are so beautiful I wept. I couldn't help it. Being a photo fanatic, I was just so moved by the simple beauty of them. I can't wait to show Brent the warbird ones. Especially the P-51 mustang in flight. There's still lots flying today but I'll bet he's NEVER seen a colour photo of one in flight in 1942.

Also, my dad being a 1943 kid, the photos were interesting from the perspective of wondering what his life looked like. (his mom burned many family photos years ago so we don't have any to refer to) I'm thinking his world looked a lot like what was seen in middle America. Except, of course, he was in middle Canada (Sask).

Thanks for the

hannah_nutwood August 6 2010, 20:02:57 UTC

no clue how much longer the flooring will be that way, but the insurance adjuster just did a walk around the place a couple days ago, so once all the estimates of damages and stuff are complete, the strata will go about getting bids from companies that can do the repairs (i suspect this will be going to the lowest bidder :P)

ha ha! i would love a job where i got to step on cardboard! i have to admit, i get a little excited when i find a patch of cardboard floor that hasn't been stepped on yet...

i'm glad that you liked the photos and i totally get the crying. there's just something about them, but i can't properly put into words what it is.

waster60268 August 6 2010, 18:42:40 UTC

bookmark, for sure.
[..is it just me, or do almost all of these look like norman rockwell paintings?]

and for all the hatin' i like to pour out on carnivale's plot, [which has so many holes that the hatin' just sort of pours right through it,] i've got to say: it's has some of the most historically evocative visuals i've ever seen.. and i'd actually watch it again, just for two delicious seasons' worth of dirtythirties eyecandy.