I love the fact that color is slowly returning to the Bismarck-Mandan area! Sometimes it takes a little rain to make those colors appear.
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There's talk of plenty of power lines down this weekend, and even perhaps some phone or cable television lines. Even a FOX TV affiliate! I suspect these lines northeast of Bismarck have been down for far longer than that. I suppose the inhabitants of that bird house probably gave up and went with cellular.
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I was afforded the opportunity to take my camera and hop in the truck for an outskirts adventure. I'm still leary about doing too much hiking with my camera due to deer season and recent mountain lion encounters in North Dakota, so I kept things on the road and next to the truck.
The river had a "tube" of fog hovering above it as I neared the river bottoms. While I found a lot of other fun roadside stuff to occupy my viewfinder, I did want to get a good view of this phenomenon from above. Sadly, access to all the high ground on the Bismarck side is hard to come by. I did find one "trail" that could be loosely construed as a section line road, from which I was able to nab a few shots. By that time much of the fog had receded or dissipated, as the sun was quickly burning it off. No matter...I still filled at least one camera card with fun stuff this morning, and put a pretty good dent in another one.
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Note the date on the weather vane.
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In a field such as this, especially during a breezy day, any object serving as a stable perch is sure to be popular. Thus the town hall meeting here on this tree, which was covered in birds as I rolled up in the Monster Truck.
They soon took flight once I arrived, even though I kept my distance. No matter; I found a unique object as the sun broke through the clouds to the west. The sun lit up said tree as well as the water droplets on the far side of the field. The resulting rainbow, and the possibility of the birds alighting once more, kept me around for a little longer. The birds would have none of it, and the mosquitoes arriving on site were as big as birds, so I elected to move along down the road.
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