Day 33 - Rock Creek Schoolhouse and Cemetery

Ella is late for class once again.

Darn kids - keep leaving their stuff all over the schoolhouse.

There are some very elaborate finishings. The proud Papa of the owners was a custom woodworker and re worked all the finishes after the big fire in 1996. The fire destoyed everything but the brick exteriors. His 4 adult kids keep the place ticking along now.

The main entrance hall. Don't know who the lady is in the photo - but the print is silvering out - which adds to the nostalgia of everything about this place.

There is cool stuff everywhere.

Cloud forces collide right over Schoolhouse Road.

The Wildfire Lab seems to be testing its new rainmaker, code-named Yin-Yang, which can rain in two directions at once, one side in white and the other in black. The utility of this is unknown.

The Rock Creek Schoolhouse and outbuildings viewed from the Cemetery.

Our Schoolhouse framed through the gates of the nearby cemetery.

A Giant secures these last resting places.

Dunno what these birds are, but they really don't like each other. This was an air-to-air pass worthy of Top Gun.

Detail from picture above. Turkey Vultures?

This is the notorious Baker City Spittin' Pine. Found guilty of repeatedly assaulting cars with pine pitch, and repeatedly escaping custody, it is now held in the Baker Valley TreeMax Facility where it can't cause any more trouble.

Hoopooburras on the line. In Australia they're called spinifex pigeons. I swear it's exactly the same bird - but have no idea what we really call them here. They do have exactly the same "hoopooba" call as their Aussie relos.

 

 

 

 

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