Pics of Simplistic Pleasures

awesome

 

When standing at Memphis looking west across miles of water, it's hard to believe that it's the same stream you're photographing.

 

It's like a tour bus or a lux RV!

 

I was thinking the same thing, but I grew up in New Orleans.

 

Beautiful watches!

I love old manual-wind Bulovas. Here's my '61 His Excellency. Ads at the time claimed it was "Sword-slim, distinctive, and waterproof too!"

After restoration:




Before restoration:

 

Nicely done restoration!

 

Thanks! This watch belonged to my Bride's Dear Uncle. Despite our age difference, we became close friends before he passed away in 2000. '61 is my birth year also. I think of him every time I look at this watch.

 

When I was posting these, I was wondering how long it would take that water to hit the gulf.

 

Distance divided by mean flow rate? That data has gotta be out there.

Two weeks?

Colorado is one of only two US states that get all fresh water from aquifers or the sky. Hawaii is the other. No rivers flow in to the state of Colorado.

 

What a cool watch.

 

Thanks Jared!

 

From https://www.nps.gov/miss/riverfacts.htm

"...The staff of Itasca State Park at the Mississippi's headwaters say the main stem of the river is 2,552 miles long. The US Geologic Survey has published a number of 2,300 miles, the EPA says it is 2,320 miles long, and the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area suggests the river's length is 2,350 miles..."

and

"At the headwaters of the Mississippi, the average surface speed of the water is about 1.2 miles per hour - roughly one-third as fast as people walk. At New Orleans the river flows 3 miles per hour on average..."

2300 miles divided by 2 miles per hour (assuming an average surface speed) = 1150 hours or 48 days or almost 7 weeks

 

This ol' girl has seen better days...

 

Awesome pics, Primo. Especially the first one.

 

Nice work.

 

My soul mate.

 

Thank you Jared.

 

Nice. A day on the shoreline is a pleasure!