Category Archives: Offbeat

Who is David Crockett?

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Ron Haines

I drove past this building in Abilene, TX, earlier this summer. The name Crockett certainly rang a bell, but the first name, David, didn’t quite go with it. Could this school be named after a man lodged in my brain … Continue reading →

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Next time I’ll wear a hat

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Ron Haines

Pulled in to this place recently in tiny Hawley, TX, along US 83 north of Abilene, ready for a breakfast as only places like this can do them. Inside there were nine men, middle-aged or better, arranged around three nearby … Continue reading →

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This Timex is going to stop ticking

Posted on June 17, 2015 by Ron Haines

Timexpo, the Waterbury CT museum that celebrates all things Timex, is going to close at the end of September. Not enough people bother to visit, says the company, which is headquartered in nearby Middlebury.  Oddly enough, the facility has the … Continue reading →

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The grass is always greener…

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Ron Haines

Or maybe it should be ‘The weeds are always greener on the other side of the fence.’  This through-the-fence eater was spotted along a dirt road between Scottsbluff and Alliance in Nebraska.

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Town of Many

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Ron Haines

I guess they didn’t want to bother with figuring out what the population is.  I would have named it Town of Not Very Many.

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A useful sign

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Ron Haines

I took this photo back in 2013 on the Swift River near Belchertown, Massachusetts. Originally from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, the sign obviously took a prankster’s ride to the alligator-unfriendly climes of the Northeast, where it was planted as a … Continue reading →

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New kid on the block

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Ron Haines

A fire hydrant’s been a fire hydrant for a long time. In fact, they’ve all looked and functioned basically the same for 100 years, according to ABC. That has changed. Here’s the new kid: And the old fart:I noticed the … Continue reading →

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They eat cars, don’t they?

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Ron Haines

Northerners have snow, Californians have earthquakes, Floridians have vultures that eat cars. OK, they don’t actually eat them, they just nibble on them, particularly the rubber and vinyl bits, like the windshield wipers and weather stripping around doors and sunroofs. … Continue reading →

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Blame it on the reporter

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Ron Haines

This sign caught my eye the other day as I drove along Tamiami Trail (US 41) through the greater Port Charlotte metro area over on the west side of Florida.I spent my career dealing with professional photographers all over the … Continue reading →

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It’s no fun being a plastic duck…

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Ron Haines

…Other birds just walk all over you. Anchored in place to mark the presence of an irrigation pipe, this plastic duck makes a good perch for his living counterparts on Lake Osborne near Lantana Road.

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