Picture of the Day for October 20, 2014

There are many creative farmers who can put together various pieces to make useful equipment like this ‘sort of tractor’ vehicle which has the front end of what appears to be a 1922 REO automobile with the rear end having tractor rear tires. The REO Motor Car Company was a Lansing, Michigan based company that produced automobiles and trucks from 1905 to 1975. (And as a side note to western movie fans, in the John Wayne movie Big Jake,  the Texas Rangers were traveling in replica REOs, which were later destroyed by the bandits.)

 Unique Vehicle

 Unique Vehicle

Picture of the Day for October 15, 2014

I imagine, with a few nice, sunny days, there might be some fishermen trying their luck before the snow moves in. The Brule River in northern Wisconsin is a popular and an exceptional fly fishing stream and there were fishermen there yesterday catching Steelheads and Brown Trout along the forty-four mile river. The Brule River contains resident brook trout, brown trout and rainbow trout. Lake run brown trout and rainbow (steelhead) trout along with Coho and Chinook salmon migrate up the Bois Brule River annually from Lake Superior for fly fishing anglers to pursue.

The Brule River

The Brule River

Picture of the Day for October 12, 2014

The area called Bears Grass near Augusta, WI, required a lot of brush clearing and tilling to become productive farm land when the first pioneers settled the area in 1855. As more settlers arrived, the St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church was built in 1893.

Slightly over a hundred years later, the church was de-sanctified in 1996 because of declining church attendance and the need for extensive maintenance and repairs. It is now a private residence.

Church Faded into History

Church Faded into History