Cows and Cowboys

Texas Longhorn Cowboy and horse. [between 1890 and 1920?] Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library. Branding Cattle on Harvey Ranch Bunch of genuine old time cowboys and bronco busters at Denver, Colorado. Solomon D. Butcher. 1905. Nebraska State Historical Society. Roping, Grayson Ranch Cowboy at work, TX, c. 1905. Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Erwin Smith photo. http://tinyurl.com/yk2f9sy Roping, Ninety-Six Ranch Who Cares About Cowboys Anymore

The Vigilante

Two-fisted, trick-ropin', crime-fightin', straight- shootin', motorcycle-ridin' modern cowboy.

Also: Giant varmint killer.

From Leading Comics #2 (1941)

Cowboy in Montana in 1887 American cowboys wearing their cow punching clothing. The photographer is Elliott of Marion, Iowa "Modern Cowboys II" - 2nd place in Photography, Reading Art Association Fall 2006 Show. Kenan Cooper. Some pretty good photography, worth a visit. www.kenancooper.com/ Modern cows and steers and a cowboy on a country road near Ellensburg, WA Rodeo Cowboy on Brahma Bull at Cheyenne Frontier Days

Orvon Gene Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998), better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s. Autry was also owner of the Los Angeles Angels Major League Baseball team from 1961 until his death, as well as a television station and several radio stations in southern California.

Although his signature song was "Back in the Saddle Again," Autry is best known today for his Christmas holiday songs, "Here Comes Santa Claus" (which he wrote), "Frosty the Snowman," and his biggest hit, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."

He is a member of both the Country Music and Nashville Songwriters halls of fame, and is the only celebrity to have five stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Click to listen to Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer Audio Clip from Gene Autry's Melody Ranch Radio Show Click on Gene Autry's image Added to Quicklist Singing Cowboys at the Cheyenne, Wyoming, Cowboy Symposium

Baxter Black is an American cowboy, poet, philosopher, former large-animal veterinarian and radio commentator.

Click on the image to see the Emmy Award winning profile of Cowboy Poet Baxter Black. He's a poet, a novelist, an entertainer and has a regular gig on NPR. He says he can't make up stories that are more outrageous than what really happens. You be the judge. 2008 Rocky Mountain Emmy Award winner: Arts & Entertainment Feature Segment. Writer/Producer - Jennifer McKinney, Photographer/Editor - Dan Sheffer

Happy Birthday Jesus

Adorazione del Bambino - Beato Angelico

Scrooge's third visitor - John Leech,1843

Some very special Christmas Music for you...

just click on the images...

Mamacita donde esta Santa Claus.

The Magical Christmas Caroling Truck

Christmas Island Andrews Sisters 1946 Decca

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth

Leon Redbone And Dr John - Frosty The Snowman

I want a hippopotamus for christmas

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

If It Doesn't Snow On Christmas.

If It Doesn't Snow On Christmas was released as the flip side of his biggest hit Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer on Columbia 90049 in 1949.

Cantique de noel.

O Holy Night! The stars are brightly shining, It is the night of the dear Saviour's birth. Long lay the world in sin and error pining. Till He appeared and the Spirit felt its worth. A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices, For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn. Fall on your knees! Oh, hear the angel voices! O night divine, the night when Christ was born; O night, O Holy Night , O night divine! O night, O Holy Night , O night divine!

The Adelaide, South Australia, Christmas Pageant - Everyone Loves A Christmas Parade (with robots)

Although it is very hot and sunny in the Southern Hemisphere at Christmas those who live 'Down Under' celebrate Christmas with grand style in their bright red and green Aloha Shirts.

The Adelaide Christmas Pageant is a parade held annually in the South Astralian capital of Adelaide. It is the largest event of its kind in the world, attracting crowds of over 400,000 and televised to millions more. Recognised as an heritage icon, the pageant is a state institution and is now sponsored by six local credit unions.

Beginning in 1933 as the John Martin's (an Adelaide Department store) Christmas Pageant, the event is staged in early November every year, usually on a Saturday morning. It comprises a procession of 75 entries and 1,700 volunteers, including 57 floats, 15 bands, 164 clowns, dancing groups, and walking performers, all culminating in the arrival of Father Christmas. Father Christmas is the star of the show at the John Martin's Christmas Pageant. Boat float! A robot float takes to the streets of Adelaide outside the E.T.S.A. Building during the Christmas Pageant. Employees preparing for 1945 John Martin's Christmas Pageant. Father Christmas takes to the streets outside of John Martin's Department Store during the early years of the Christmas Pageant which started in 1933. Lovely marching belles. The Goose and the Golden Eggs float at the 1956 John Martin's Christmas Pageant. ... and jumping to the other side of the equator a century earlier The image of Santa is surrounded by smaller images showing the typical Christmas Traditions of the 1860's. This is a classic Civil War era Thomas Nast picture of Santa Claus.

World's top fascinating natural and aberrant phenomena

A photo essay from the People's Republic Of China - plus some very chaotic impedimenta towards the end of this post http://english.people.com.cn/ The Northern Lights Mammatus Clouds Red Tides Penitentes Sailing Stones. Supercells Fire Whirls Ice Circles Gravity Waves "The Hum" is the common name of a series of phenomena involving a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming noise not audible to all people. Hums have been reported in various geographical locations. In some cases a source has been located. A well-known case was reported in Taos, New Mexico, and thus the Hum is sometimes called the Taos Hum. They have been reported all over the world, especially in Europe: a Hum on the Big Island of Hawaii, typically related to volcanic action, is heard in locations dozens of miles apart. The Hum is most often described as sounding somewhat like a distant idling diesel engine. Difficult to detect with microphones, its source and nature are unknown. Here are some rather amazing videos of other very strange natural phenomena. Simply turn up the volume on your speakers and click on the images to see the impossible. Be afraid: Suddently, a 9-meter Sand fountain (geyser) apparead, in the Al-Ahsae City, Eastern Saudi Arabia. Car runs back up a slope while it is turned off. Round clouds. Many people report strange round clouds all over the world. Is it a coincidence, a natural phenomenon or are more people just looking up at the skies now? Or are these cloaked spaceships?

A man spotted two jellyfish like objects flying over his Daventry home.

On the same day an hour before a cameraman recorded footage of similar colour and shape (vessels) in the night sky in Worcestershire. Adrian Dalton, 32, of Hemans Road, Daventry was standing in his back garden with his son on Tuesday, July 22 between 10pm and 10.30pm. He first became aware of them when he saw two black objects in the distance which he thought were birds. Next thing, they were above his home. He said: "They were like two brown jellyfish in the sky, they looked like they were swimming and I had not taken any drugs." The objects which were brown with a dark centre, and the size of a ten pence piece at arm's length, made a swishing sound and pulsated. They flew from the west over Mr Dalton's house at slow speed and he could see the propulsion system at work. He said: "I have been interested in these objects for 15 years but for the past few days I have been trying to come to terms with what I've seen. They were fascinating. "It's an infinite universe, we're not the only life and it's pretty egotistical to think we are." Earlier this summer a woman from Crick had a paranormal experience which she recounted to UFO magazine, Rapport. She was walking in the village on June 16 when she saw an aeroplane with a lozenge-shaped object above it which was going at some speed alongside the plane. Then when she looked again the object was underneath the plane but quickly shot off very quickly in the opposite direction.

Elephant escapes on surf board! Outside my door a crowd is enraged by these unsettling web-postings...