Odd Shot Monday

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I caught this on our trip to the coast, i thought how odd that he would hang his sign like this. Be sure to click on photo for better viewing.

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Do you see anything odd about this tree? Look in the top right the brown spot, better if you enlarge the photo. I Thought it was a mushroom growing so thought i would get a better look and photo. Scroll down for what it really is



I was surprised when i took a stick to really make sure it wasn't a mushroom,But now i wonder how a pancake got up there? LOL

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Our trip to the coast took us to this park which i thought the name was Odd but as we entered the park there was another sign i thought was Odd, and a bit scary, as i am guessing that children may also use this park, Sorry for more than one photo but just wanted you to see the setting. Be sure to Click on photos for better viewing.

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I have no clue as to what kind of farm machinery this is, Let me know if you do. But a closer look at this, surely lets you know that this thing has been sitting a LONG LONG Time

Click on photo to see what is in it. Looks like they chopped it off to get it moved . So this is my Odd Shot for the week

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Sorry this guy is a bit blurry, but i got the shot on a drive by, they had him stuck between the gas tanks. "GO DUCKS"

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I don't know how many times i have gone by this and never seen this sign, they must of repainted and made it stand out more since they opened up the new parkway in Redmond, I thought it was kind of a cool and Odd shot.

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I thought this was a fun and Odd sign since most signs tell Humans not to feed the squirrels

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I found this to be odd as i don't know if this is a barn or a house, if a barn it would make a neat looking house.
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I thought this was pretty fitting. It was at a tavern in Mt Angel

Oktoberfest, Odd Shot Monday, Camera Critters

Sorry i am combining camera critters and Odd shot monday in one post as i have been gone.
This deer was at the Abby in Mt Angel wich i will be posting about soon
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I thought this was a fun Odd shot, the dog was dressed as a pirate at the Oktoberfest vendors


So this week end we took our trip to Mt Angel Oregon for there Oktoberfest, I have always wanted to go there, but never seemed to make it when they have it, and i have to say it was a wonderful time. 4 days of festivities. Pictures to follow but here is a question:
Do you know the history behind Oktoberfest? Being German myself I really didn't know the meaning behind it, so had to look it up, and here is what I found out about it.Very interesting.
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The Royal Wedding

Crown Prince Ludwig, later to become King Ludwig I, was married to Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen on 12th October 1810. The citizens of Munich were invited to attend the festivities held on the fields in front of the city gates to celebrate the happy royal event. The fields have been named Theresienwiese ("Theresa's fields") in honor of the Crown Princess ever since, although the locals have since abbreviated the name simply to the "Wies'n".

Horse races in the presence of the Royal Family marked the close of the event that was celebrated as a festival for the whole of Bavaria. The decision to repeat the horse races in the subsequent year gave rise to the tradition of the Oktoberfest.

The Oktoberfest continues in 1811

In 1811 an added feature to the horse races was the first Agricultural Show, designed to boost Bavarian agriculture.
The horse races, which were the oldest and - at one time - the most popular event of the festival are no longer held today. But the Agricultural Show is still held every three years during the Oktoberfest on the southern part of the festival grounds.

In the first few decades the choice of amusements was sparse. The first carousel and two swings were set up in 1818. Visitors were able to quench their thirst at small beer stands which grew rapidly in number. In 1896 the beer stands were replaced by the first beer tents and halls set up by enterprising landlords with the backing of the breweries.

The remainder of the festival site was taken up by a fun-fair. The range of carousels etc. on offer was already increasing rapidly in the 1870s as the fairground trade continued to grow and develop in Germany.

174th Oktoberfest 2007

Today, the Oktoberfest is the largest festival in the world, with an international flavor characteristic of the 21th century: some 6 million visitors from all around the world converge on the Oktoberfest each year.

And since the Oktoberfest is still held on the Theresienwiese, the locals still refer to the event simply as the "Wies'n". So "welcome to the Wies'n" means nothing other than "welcome to the Oktoberfest"

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I have been trying to capture this photo for sometime and either i don't have the camera or we are going by too fast. Anyway i took this yesterday on the way to Redmond. Please click on photo for better viewing and see all the details.

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Horses on the Run???

Well that is one's impression when first seeing these as they are so life like, but they are not. I love these horses whenever i go to Sisters Oregon which this is located just outside of town heading to Bend.

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The other night i was after a moon shot, and this is what i ended up with. Pretty Odd i thought.

Sat night we spent 4 hours in the ER pet clinic, boy never thought there was the same kind of wait like in a regular ER, but i guess pets get sick as much as us humans.
My Princess had not been feeling well for a few days, and throwing up once in awhile. Didn't think much about that the first day or the second as she was still pretty perky and wanting to play ball, so blamed a lot of it on the heat we have been having, but then Sat evening she went potty on her pee pad, it was all bloody. Scared me to death. So off we went to the ER, Well not sure what it is, but they put her on antibiotics, and put fluids in her, We thought maybe some of the water she drank up at Newberry Crater might of got to her. Well she seems to be better today. She is on a bland diet for a few days .Going to watch her real close for a while.
Here is what i finally got.
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Well here is another electrical shot i got the other night as i was trying to get a moon shot, these are the lights over my motel eves.Although they don't resemble anything like this.

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Took this photo today hubby thought it would make a nice walking stick.
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And here the bark is just peeling away from this dead tree