LordM giveaway, September, 2017

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  1. JIM WESOLOWSKI

    JIM WESOLOWSKI Member

    chicago born and growing up in the midwest can't
    compare to fall in sw virginia the blue ridge parkway
    smith mountain lake and peaks of otter just minutes
    away
     
    JIM WESOLOWSKI, Sep 26, 2017
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  3. JIM WESOLOWSKI

    JIM WESOLOWSKI Member

    chicago born and growing up in the midwest can't
    compare to fall in sw virginia the blue ridge parkway
    smith mountain lake and peaks of otter just minutes
    away
     
    JIM WESOLOWSKI, Sep 26, 2017
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  4. JIM WESOLOWSKI

    JIM WESOLOWSKI Member

    chicago born and growing up in the midwest can't
    compare to fall in sw virginia the blue ridge parkway
    smith mountain lake and peaks of otter just minutes
    away
     
    JIM WESOLOWSKI, Sep 26, 2017
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  5. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    @sonlarson - awesome pix! Love that lake, and your "elk wrangling" shot! Such a tiny, cute little critter! :p

    @Lester Maddox - I'd love to see those cliff houses if I ever visit the Southwest again. My baby sister lives in Phoenix. One week in NM in the summer of '86 (without my own car for exploring the area) is the sum total of my visiting to that region.

    (Oh, hey, I notice you were our GA governor from 1967-71. Thought you were dead! :nailbiting: You look a bit more like Ludwig van Beethoven in your avatar picture than a zombie Lester Maddox.)

    @JIM WESOLOWSKI- I see there are more than a couple of us who are Blue Ridge Parkway fans around here! BTW, your accidental multiple posts won't help your odds in the drawing, but I did give you extra "likes". ;)
     
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    lordmarcovan, Sep 26, 2017
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  6. Nyatii

    Nyatii I like running w/scissors. Makes me feel dangerous

    If you like close...here's a photo I took. About 30-40 feet. It was July, so not a fall picture. But, an everlasting memory.
    elephant - photo contest.jpg
     
    Nyatii, Sep 26, 2017
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  7. Tyler Graton

    Tyler Graton Well-Known Member

    O.O........ Now that would be a scary moment... hahaha Humbling after he left... lol thats pretty nice shot though, You can practically see the expression on the elephants face.. to me it says... Hmmm Whats this?
     
    Tyler Graton, Sep 26, 2017
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  8. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    Awesome shot!!!

    I lived in Tanzania, East Africa as a 6-7 year old kid, so I'm familiar with scenes like that. I did not own a camera then, but one time Dad was photographing an ostrich which was peering over a stockade fence at him, when it suddenly snatched the Nikon right out of his hands and attempted to gulp it down!

    That's close. :nailbiting:
     
    lordmarcovan, Sep 26, 2017
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  9. Nyatii

    Nyatii I like running w/scissors. Makes me feel dangerous

    He was in musth, so he was probably thinking, "Hope I can get him off my tusk"
     
    Nyatii, Sep 26, 2017
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  10. Nyatii

    Nyatii I like running w/scissors. Makes me feel dangerous

    As you probably know, since you lived there, ostrich can be very dangerous too. One swipe and your innards are displayed for you. Or, loose and eye.
     
    Nyatii, Sep 26, 2017
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  11. Tyler Graton

    Tyler Graton Well-Known Member

    When i was a kid, i used to have these in my hands all the time, not knowing the "kissing bug" was the kiss of death! I'm thanking my lucky stars that i never got bit.. lol 9322504_G.jpg
     
    Tyler Graton, Sep 26, 2017
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  12. Nyatii

    Nyatii I like running w/scissors. Makes me feel dangerous

    Way worse than kissing a toad.

    I probably shouldn't do this, as I don't like to do the one up thing. But can't resist one more.
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    I used one of these to swat mosquitos with out on the high plains desert in AZ. It was in the fall!
     
    Nyatii, Sep 26, 2017
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  13. Tyler Graton

    Tyler Graton Well-Known Member

    Black on yellow, kill a fellow. Black on red, nothing said.
     
    Tyler Graton, Sep 26, 2017
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  14. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    That one that grabbed Dad's camera looked as tall as Godzilla to me at the time. Granted, I was a scrawny six-year-old, but the bird dwarfed Dad as well, as I recall.

    During my Florida childhood I saw at least a couple of black, red, and yellow snakes. Were they the deadly coral snake or harmless lookalikes? Who knows. At the time, I did not know that little mnemonic ditty you quoted, so I didn't check the color pattern of the bands. Nor did I stick around for a closer examination.

    In Africa, while looking for a lost toy in high grass, I encountered a black snake in passing. Memory has inflated it into a Black Mamba, though it might not have been. We did have a cobra in our basement at least once, though.
     
    lordmarcovan, Sep 26, 2017
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  15. Tyler Graton

    Tyler Graton Well-Known Member

    I’ve never been close enough to a snake with that color, but most likely it was black on red, I hear that the black on yellow guys are just as nice as the red on black, so you may have got lucky. The worse I ever had was a rattle snake. But I heard it from a couple feet away so i was lucky I didn’t go near it. I was walking straight into it and wouldn’t have seen it. Bull snakes eat rattle snakes. It’s kind of funny. Bull snakes aren’t venomous. But they mimic the rattle snake with the shaking tail. I’ve thought one was a rattle snake with no rattle, got him with the shovel. Grampa got mad saying I just killed the rattle snakes worse enemy lol
     
    Tyler Graton, Sep 26, 2017
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  16. sakata

    sakata Devil's Advocate

    I thought this thread was about FAVORITE fall things. But as it seems to be about both snakes and the Blue Ridge I will add that, about 10 years ago, my son got bit by a copperhead while walking a trail at one of the local picnic areas on the Blue Ridge Parkway. He did not even see it. He survived okay, but it was a lesson to us all the be very careful and always have legs well protected when walking those trails.
     
    sakata, Sep 26, 2017
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  17. Youngcoin

    Youngcoin Everything Collector

    I mean collected and ever seen I've never seen any of the barber varietys the only really old coins I've seen are a few Morgan's (my oldest 1881) Indian heads, buffalo's and Mercury's (this is not including ancients). (Actually I going to update my "my collection" thread tonight, it's grown!

    Thanks,
    Jacob
     
    Youngcoin, Sep 26, 2017
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  18. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    We had a baby rattlesnake in the hotel lobby where I work about two years ago. (Our hotel is right by the marshes, in a very wildlife prone area.) Some guests were poking it with a golf umbrella. I'm a "live and let live" kinda guy when it comes to critters (and not just the furry or cute ones), so I threw a towel over it and carried it outside and into the woods by the marsh.

    Another time I literally stumbled over an armadillo right outside the front doors. We were both quite startled.
     
    lordmarcovan, Sep 26, 2017
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  19. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    Gimme your address in a PM and your oldest dated coin will no longer be 1881. ;)
     
    lordmarcovan, Sep 26, 2017
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  20. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    It has devolved a little into general discussion, but I'm OK with that, as long as we're all having fun. For purposes of the drawing, I'll only use the random numbers that land on someone's "primary" post on the topic, and disregard those that fall on people's secondary, "chitchat" posts.

    Glad your lad survived the copperhead bite! That must've been terrifying to you as a parent. Victoria got kicked hard in the head by a horse, once, which bared part of her skull in a bloody crescent, barely missing her eye. She was fine after some minor plastic surgery and it has not marred her beauty, as you can see in her previously posted birthday pictures. But that added some more grey hair to my head, and of course her mother freaked out.
     
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    lordmarcovan, Sep 26, 2017
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  21. Moundsvillemike75

    Moundsvillemike75 Member

    Fall is beautiful where I live in the Ohio river valley of W.Va ...I will use my dads greatest fall memory!!! I was born on 10\4, which was his 20th birthday. Thanks for the chance.
     
    Moundsvillemike75, Sep 26, 2017
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