The photograph below is what it looks like at the junction of WY-120 and Missouri Flat Road. The white sign looks outdates, so the names of the residents and the number of their street addresses is probably no longer current.
With the spring rains and the irrigation canal, the area is beautiful and green.
With the spring rains and the irrigation canal, the area is beautiful and green.
Because of my series on fences, walls, and gates, the tire wall below caught my attention.
I asked at the residence if I could take pictures, and I had the fortune of meeting Del Lamoreaux who owns a business he calls Re-Tire-Ment. It's a great play on words when you realize that he makes creations out of tires. Here he is standing with a horse swing which is packaged and ready to sell.
Here are a few of the swinging horses, completed and ready to be packaged.
Del and his wife also make mats out of tires...
and planters (below). I suppose he may even sell you a wall :-) If you are interested in doing business with Del, his phone number is 307-867-2217.
From Del's place we went on to Mud Creek Road.
This cliff below parallels the road on the north side.
This ravine is on the south side of the road.
Here are a few of the flowers and plants we photographed.
Just after passing over the "bridge" below, the road ends for the public because of the Wind River Indian Reservation.
This is what the sign below says:WIND RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION
CLOSED TO HUNTING, FISHING,
TRAPPING & TRESPASSING.
UNLESS AUTHORIZED BY A PERMIT ISSUED BY
THE SHOSHONE & ARAPAHOE TRIBES OR
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
VIOLATORS SUBJECT TO
APPLICABLE TRIBAL & FEDERAL REGULATIONS
FISH & GAME DEP.
WIND RIVER AGENCY
So we turned around and proceeded back to the junction of Missouri Flat and Mud Creek roads.
Below is another view of that junction:
Just up the road from the above location is what I would call a pond. Below is the view on the other side of the road from the pond. The field of yellow flowers was filled with some type of insects (bees?) which were attracted to the flowers and were creating a very loud buzz.
From the pond, we went on to Missouri Breaks Lane, where these mailboxes attracted my attention due to that series on this blog.
Before getting to WY-170, the road which takes you out to Anchor Dam, we encountered this abandoned house.
link: index to photographs
"Missouri Flat Road" was so named because of all the early settlers that had migrated from Missouri such as the Thronburg families as well as many others.
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