Sepia Saturday February 8

For this week's Sepia Saturday the prompt image is a street scene with plenty of snow.

Snow is in the news in the eastern USA but is not affecting me in the midwest USA. So it's off to American Memory at the Library of Congress to find some images of snow.

 

Snow scene, with a man and women in a horse-drawn buggy in front of a house, Kearney, Nebraska.

 

This image is from Prairie Settlement. "This digital collection integrates two collections from the holdings of the Nebraska State Historical Society, the Solomon D. Butcher photographs and the letters of the Uriah W. Oblinger family. Together they illustrate the story of settlement on the Great Plains. Approximately 3,000 glass plate negatives crafted by Butcher record the process of settlement in Nebraska between 1886 and 1912. Butcher photographed actively in central Nebraska including Custer, Buffalo, Dawson and Cherry counties."

 

This must have been a chilly ride!  Note the large hat worn by the lady.

 

Please visit other Sepians and see what has snowed down on everyone.

 

Viridian

Postcard Friendship Friday - Postcard of Bedrock of Nebraska

Hello everyone to one of my favorite memes, hosted by our wonderful leader Marie, at Vintage Postcards.

Remember I am going through the USA from generally east to generally west, so hold on please for Montana and California.

We have the cut away block diagram and the legend or key on the right side, with youngest rocks (yellow orange) on top and older rocks (greens, then blues) on the bottom. Gee, just like the rock layers in Nebraska.

From the back:

"Block diagram of Nebraska Geology, on front, is available in The Groundwater Atlas of Nebraska from the Conservation and Survey Division, as is the Geological Bedrock Map of Nebraska and other maps and publications.

Nebraska Geological Survey

Conservation and Survey Division

113 Nebraska Hall

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

68588-0517"

Well! In the center of the continent there are many layers of flat-lying rocks. The bright pink at the bottom represents the old old basement rocks of the Precambrian. The thick gray layer is the Pierre (pronounced 'peer') Shale, named after the city in South Dakota, which after all is the state just north of Nebraska.

The state website is: http://www.nebraska.gov/dynamicindex.html.

The rolling plains of the American West is here, especially in the Sandhills region of north-central Nebraska. See these beautiful photos of this area. I have driven through here, and it is a beautiful place, empty of humans, but full of grass, sky, and wind.

And FYI: Willa Cather spent her formative years in Red Cloud, Nebraska.