Random Pictures Thread

I had an incredible run in working track safety, too many stories & experiences to be believable. Instead of sitting in the stands outside of Turn 1, imagine standing in the grass field between the track and acceleration lane during the Anthem...waiting for the parachutist to arrive with Old Glory. Or hand-pushing the Marmon Wasp (or one of the Turbines). Or having Andy Granatelli in the golf cart next to you when Mario Andretti snuck up from behind--seeing each other for the first time in 20-something years.

That's just the tip of the iceberg...and doesn't include pranks, other tracks, operating a jet dryer, traveling with a drag racing safety team, you name it. Was blessed to have done what i did, but like @trc65 mentioned--no way i could do that today. Could still do emergency part, but 12-16 hour days (or longer), too little sleep and too much coffee, spending 80-90 nights a year away from home (while working a full-time job)--that's for young folks!!
 
That is unreal! However, I did get to see Faith Hill unfold herself from a Legends car after she drove in the first Legends race at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway.

Inspired by you, I tried to get on a safety crew or whatever at the Inaugural Music City Grand Prix. Don't have the connections I used to have! That rejection was bittersweet, because 30 years prior, I lobbied to do a gran prix in Nashville. My idea was a road race through Nashville with NASCAR cars. Even had a name for it The Grand Ole Prix. But I am a terrible salesman and could not get anyone with money interested. The governor thought it was a good idea as well as Lamar Alexander. The Gov told me if I could get the mayor onboard - he'd help. Unfortunately the mayor and I did not see eye to eye so to speak - something about me calling him a liar a few times I guess! Geez, what people hold against you!
 
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You're just down the road about an hour fifteen minutes. You lucked out with a gorgeous day at Crater. Nice when the lake is a mirror like that. And yes, that's a stellar's jay. Sent you a PM.
 
Fun fact: Crater Lake has no inlet stream or river. It's totally fed by precipitation. It also has no outfall stream or river. The level stays nearly constant year round (within a couple feet either way) because the input nearly equals the seepage into the underground aquifers and evaporation into the atmosphere.
 
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They get a lot of snow there tho, most years. The lake is just under 2,000 ft deep at it's deepest measured point.
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The video at the visitors center said the average annual snowfall is 44ft. Deepest part of the lake is 1943ft. And the Old Man of the Lake has been bobbing around since the 1890’s.

www.npca.org

The Old Man of the Lake

How has a giant hemlock managed to float upright in Crater Lake for more than a hundred years?
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According to the Whitney, this is what an artist budget is allocated for………..there should be “wood money and tool money” for Woodbarter members…..

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