Ryoga @ Musk Minion

Native Texan,metalhead,sports fan(TCU,Dallas Stars,IndyCar), cat lover,=^_^= & anime geek. 🇬🇷 ☦️ Currently being Love Live trash. Ranma 1/2 forever!

[Ryoga @ Musk Minion @Ryoga523]

And thus he entered the 9th circle of idol hell. #LLSIF #lovelive

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

Traces of Texas reader David Haines was nice enough to submit this great photo of Main Street in Nacogdoches before cars came along. That hill in the background is Orton hill. Davd's great granddad had trouble getting the mules to navigate that hill pulling a wagon load of supplies for his family, especially when it rained hard. SH 21 East follows this path today.

Thank you, David. Who doesn't love that big timber 'round Nacogdoches? 😁

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

Inmate laborers gather potatoes at the Imperial State Prison Farm in Fort Bend County, 1909. Convict leasing programs historically used incarcerated people for agricultural labor, a practice fundamental to the development of early prisons here in Texas.

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

At first I thought this residence in San Augustine as seen by Russell Lee in 1939 on a routine sunny day with no cloud drama was ...meh. But then I looked closely at the composition, and it's just so perfect. First there's the house itself, which is simple and lovely. The vegetation is well-tended and symmetrical. I love the way the shorter shrub on the left is is shaped, pointing, leading the eye toward the house, which is framed by tall trees. I thought about taking the wire at the top out in Photoshop because it harshes my buzz, but I left it in.

But really, it's the lines. The beautiful, symphonic lines! Some vertical but most horizontal --- the shingles, the roofline, the porch, the porch steps, the porch's "parapet," the cinder block walkway, the brick wall, the sidewalk ... Too good. The whole photo just wants to sweep your eye from left to right. Sumptuous!

[もっさ @ATBmossa]

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[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

This is one of the best rodeo action shots you'll ever see. Traces of Texas reader Matt Allen thoughtfully shared this incredible photo, on the back of which is written “El Diablo – bucked six years by many before being rode in Bremond, Tex.” It also says to return it to Joe Ainsworth (the cowboy?) and that it was taken by Arthur Baker.

But this photo! The tension, the physics, El Diablo's fabulous expression, the dread of the next half second and worry that the horse will fall on the cowboy, the explosion, the sheer power, the expression of the spectator with her hands up and her mouth wide open ... all of it. I sure the cowboy was okay.

The town of Bremond will be hosting its annual Bremond Polish Festival Days tomorrow and Saturday, June 26-27. A good time is surely to be had by all. I'm guessing some kielbasa might be consumed. 😉

[jenna 💾 @rainynebula]

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[Rumic World @rumicworld1]

On June 25th, 1978 Rumiko Takahashi made her professional debut in Shonen Sunday, publishing her iconic story Katte na Yatsura/Those Selfish Aliens. The rest is history!

[田中約 @tanaka_yaku]

お美しいお姉様

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

The bird blind shown in this photo is located in the Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge, which is a protected area in Randall County in the Texas Panhandle. Its shortgrass prairies spill into marshes, woodlands, riparian habitat, croplands, and water-carved canyon walls that together form 7,664 acres of homes for migratory and year-round wildlife. The area forms a habitat for black-tailed prairie dogs and burrowing owls, among many other species.

Buffalo Lake NWR lies within a canyon carved by Tierra Blanca Creek, an ephemeral stream that stretches across northern portions of the Llano Estacado. What is an ephemeral stream? I'm glad you asked, because it was that exact question that got me started going down this rabbit hole. An ephemeral stream is a watercourse that flows only during or immediately after a precipitation event (like heavy rain or snowmelt). Because their channels sit above the water table year-round, ephemeral streams receive no groundwater and run dry for the majority of the year.

Tierra Blanca creek is no exception. Its discharge is highly variable, and it is not unusual for the creek to dry out completely. At the same time, as the sole creek bed within a large drainage basin in a region that is prone to frequent and intense thunderstorms, it often suffers the destructive effects of flash floods. A large flood control structure named Umbarger Dam, was constructed to impound the waters of Tierra Blanca Creek and form Buffalo Lake within the boundaries of the wildlife refuge. The ponded waters of this shallow lake often provides key roosting habitat for migrating birds.

My guess is that recent rains mean that now would be a great time to visit the Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge.

This photo taken by "Leaflet."

[ふじい🍀 @IoEXZN3qhmfabFP]

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烏の短いアニメーションを作って頂きました。よろしく。

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[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day:

On June 26, 1863, noted British ornithologist Henry E. Dresser, shown in the photo below, arrived at Matamoros on a Confederate merchant ship. He spent 13 months in South Texas, where he collected and shipped to England the bird skins of 272 different specimens. The collection currently resides in the museum of the University of Manchester. He also published "Notes on the Birds of Southern Texas."

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

For the Texas Quote of the Day, I found British ornithologist Henry E. Dresser's 1865 description of the roadrunner to be interesting:

"Abundant throughout the whole mesquite region, and more particularly so near the Rio Grande. I found eggs of this bird near San Antonio in April and May, and even as late as the 23rd September I had them brought to me by the vaqueros. It builds a clumsy nest of mesquite-twigs, generally placed at some height on a bough or in the hollow of a mesquite or oak tree, and lays two to four pure white eggs. The food of the Paisano seems to consist entirely of small snakes, lizards, ticks, and large insects, and probably also of field-mice ; for when domesticated, it catches mice, and eats them. I examined the stomachs of many, and invariably found them to contain small snakes, lizards, and ticks.

The Mexicans often keep this bird in a semidomesticated state, in order to kill them in case of sickness; for they firmly believe that their flesh is a certain cure for many disorders. I had one at Matamoras which became very tame, and at last so mischievous that I could not let it remain in the house.

It would steal and hide anything it could carry off, and was particularly fond of tearing up letters, spilling the ink, and the like. I never had it caged or tied up, and it would frequently pay the neighbours a visit, always, however, returning before evening. I fed it on raw meat, or lizards when I could procure them. I have never seen a wild Paisano on the wing, though I have chased them on horseback, and can bear testimony to their great speed on foot. "Jack," my tame bird, flew with ease, and was very fond of perching on the housetop. He had a strange antipathy to a tame Parrot I had for a short time; and whenever I let the Parrot out of the cage, Jack would ruffle his feathers, get into a regular rage, and finally decamp to some of the neighbors, or go on to the housetop."

---- Henry E. Dresser, "Notes on the Birds of South Texas," 1865.

Shown here: a roadrunner that had caught a mouse as seen by TOT reader Crystal Morgan in the Texas Hill Country back in 2015.

[よだれ @yodareusaco]

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