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LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· 27d

A view from behind: the stern of the #SailingShip #SeaCloud from one of her RHIBs for the #AlphabetChallenge in the #WeekBforBehind. Western Mediterranean 23 April 2023 The Sea Cloud is a part of the #Lindblad fleet often used for #NationalGeographic #Expeditions.

Photo: Looking upward onto the stern of a large white sailing ship, bearing the name "Sea Cloud" with a port of registration, "Valletta."
She is a four-masted barque, Maltese-flagged.
Her mizzen mast (fore-and-aft rigged, with its sail furled) and one additional mast (the next one forward, square-rigged and showing slack sails) rise above her stern. Her mizzen boom and a white flag pole extend over her stern.
The sun flares in the upper left corner of the image. The sky is cloudless and blue. The shaded hull of the ship appears bluer (yep, that's a word, just checked) than the sky, with silvery wrinkles of sunlight reflecting upward along the edges.

Western Mediterranean
23 April 2023
OM-1: ƒ/9, 1/640, 12mm, ISO400

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· 27d

A view from behind of the #Indivisible #KansasCity #BridgeBrigade visibility event on the Sni-A-Bar Road I-435 Overpass ahead of the Columbia/Ghana #FIFA #WorldCup match. 7 July 2026 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBehind ( #Reuse #Recycle )

Photo: (left-to-right) Crissy, Jackie, Pam, Karen, and Tim II face away from the camera on the opposite side of a bridge. They look down through a chain-link fence on an Interstate highway (435) and wave at the oncoming traffic that will pass beneath them.
All five are waving.
On the fence in front of them, multiple signs and U.S. flags are temporarily affixed to the fence with bungee cords.
All but one of these signs face the traffic and their messages cannot be captured by the camera. The one that can be read: "Power 2 the People."

OM-1 MarkII: ƒ/9, 1/320, 12mm, ISO200

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· 28d

Michael, Safety Ambassador #Indivisible #KansasCity #BridgeBrigade Sni-A-Bar Road I-435 Overpass ahead of the Argentina/Switzerland match 7 July 2026 #WorldCup #LocalResistance #AbolishICE (read more about Michael in the alt texts)

Photo: Michael wears a safety-yellow vest over a bright blue shirt and sun hat. He stands on the south walkway of the bridge, waving with his left hand while using his right to show a double-sided, hand-lettered poster for the northbound traffic passing beneath the bridge.
His distorted shadow is cast on the white backside of a banner hanging next to him.
The side of the sign facing the camera reads, "NONE OF THESE ASSHOLES HAS EVER KNOWN THE LOVE OF A DOG." The poster has a dog paw print in its lower right-hand corner.
The message displayed to the traffic at this time is shown in the other photograph attached to this post.
Michael had an app on his phone that could count the cars passing under the overpass. In the course of the two-hour event, he took six one minute samples, counting an average of 113 vehicles across the six lanes of traffic per minute, suggesting that as many of 13,560 drivers (and their passengers) may have seen the messages displayed on one side of the bridge or the other.

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· 28d

Views on a Bridge (looking east) #Indivisible #KansasCity #BridgeBrigade Sni-A-Bar Road I-435 Overpass ahead of the Argentina/Switzerland match 7 July 2026 #WorldCup #LocalResistance #AbolishICE

Photo: Joe stands on the north walkway, facing the southbound traffic through chain-link fencing that casts thin shadows that outline bright diamonds of sunlight on his white t-shirt, blue bush hat and face. The fencing itself, seen from an oblique angle, forms a silvery chain mail wall lined with placards aligned like so many shields. Tim I, behind Joe, walks away, wearing a bright orange t-shirt and black ball cap. A small blue banner, attached to the fence only along its top edge, flaps wildly in a rare gust of wind from the north.

Photo: Tim II stands on the south walkway, facing a large blue shuttle bus that's passing, left to right (west to east), on the adjacent bridge roadway. He wears a plain white workout shirt, dark gray workout shorts, and a red-white-and-blue trucker cap with matching sunglasses. He lifts a poster toward the bus windows.
The poster depicts an adjudicated sex offender and a convicted pedophile, long-time, close friends, embracing under the word "BESTIES." The sex offender, also the current president of the United States, wears his trademark, off-the-rack, oversized blue suit and bright red tie. The pedophile, currently a corpse, wears an open-neck dress shirt and sports jacket.

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· 28d

Views on a Bridge (looking south) #Indivisible #KansasCity #BridgeBrigade Sni-A-Bar Road I-435 Overpass ahead of the Argentina/Switzerland match 7 July 2026 #WorldCup #LocalResistance #AbolishICE

Photo: Looking south from the opposite side of the bridge: Karen, Tim II, Kurt, and Michael stand on the southern walkway of the overpass, waving at traffic and tending banners, placards and a pole-sized U.S. flag that are attached to the fencing lining the southern edge of the bridge.
A short "Jersey barrier" topped by a steel railing protecting the walkway from the bridge roadway.

Photo: Looking south from the opposite side of the bridge at a full-size banner, a poster, and small banner that are attached to the fencing lining the southern edge of the bridge.
The full-sized banner bears the message: "LOVE [soccer ball emoji] HATE ICE."
The poster reads, "Abolish FEAR / NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL."
The small banner is a little busy, but colorful and reads:
"One World / All Heart KC" down the left-hand side and on the right:
"One, two, three, viva l'Algérie" | "Vamos, Vamos Argentina" | "Football's coming home. It's coming home!" | "Wij houden van Oranje" | "I believe that we will win!"
The foreground is dominated by a short "Jersey barrier" topped by a steel railing protecting the walkway from the bridge roadway.

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· 28d

11 July 2026: #Indivisible #KansasCity wrapped up its welcome to #WorldCup players and fans with pro-democracy banners on overpasses along routes to the Argentina (3) / Switzerland (1) match. Shown here, the #BridgeBrigade on the Sni-A-Bar Road I-435 Overpass. Temperature: 87F

Photo: A view of the north-facing side of the overpass, with the banners highlighted in colors approximating the originals, and everything else in halftones.
A large red banner with white lettering reads "JUSTICE."
White letters on black placards spell out the message "RED CARD FOR FIFA PEACE PRIZE" (with the "O" in "FOR" replaced by a soccer ball).
Crissy and Tim I can be seen behind the "R" & "D" placards in "RED." Joe lifts an arm and a hand from behind the first "F" in "FIFA" to flash a peace sign.
A few vehicles in the background can be seen approaching the overpass from the south on I-435.

Photo: A view of the south-facing side of the overpass, with the banners highlighted in colors approximating the originals, and everything else in halftones.
Vehicles approaching the overpass from the south dominate the foreground. Above them, demonstrators stand waving on the overpass where black placards with white lettering spell out the message, "THE WORLD IS WATCHING."
At the far left of the photograph, a demonstrator holds a torso-sized poster depicting an adjudicated sex offender and a convicted pedophile: long-time, close friends, embracing under the word "BESTIES." The sex offender, also the current president of the United States, wears his trademark, off-the-rack, oversized blue suit and bright red tie. The pedophile wears an open-neck dress shirt and sports jacket.
Another demonstrator holds a picture of a soccer ball on a stick.
Still another demonstrator simply waves.
A hand-drawn poster towards the right reminds drivers and their passengers: "USA BUILT BY IMMIGRANTS."
Numbers and letters on all visible license plates of the several vehicles in the foreground have been obscured either by blurring or substitution of new text. One plate now reads, "3ND 1C3." Another now reads, "N02 IC3."
(That reminds me: As of this writing (16 July 2026), at least 60 people have died either in ICE custody or during ICE abductions, including at least two American citizens and two legally present immigrants. Please keep that in mind going forward.)

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jul 9

An old sign and a new hat. #Indivisible #KansasCity #BridgeBrigade Sni-A-Bar Road I-435 Overpass ahead of the #FIFA #WorldCup Columbia/Ghana match 3 July 2026

Photo: A medium shot of a man standing on a bridge by a guardrail. He wears black-framed glasses, a black t-shirt touting various KC attractions (Union Station, the giant Art Deco hair curlers, etc.), a black ball cap, and khaki shorts.
He holds a torso-sized printed sign (of his own manufacture) which depicts a goose lifting its head to make goose noises. Text below the goose reads, "HONK for DEMOCRACY."
His head is canted slightly to one side and his facial expression seems to ask, "Remember this?"
Over his right shoulder (on our left), three more demonstrators on the opposite (south) side of the bridge standing waving at northbound traffic (not shown, out of frame beneath the bridge).
Me: "That a new sign?"
Tim I: "Nah. I made it a while ago."
Tim I: [a look suggesting this was something I might remember]
Tim I: "I brought it to 'NO KINGs' down on the Plaza."
Tim has been to multiple demonstrations across the city over the past year or so of national bedlam and he has brought a stack of signs of his own manufacture to each demonstration, each sign having a different featured graphic and message.

Photo: A close-up of a woman standing on a bridge. Beyond her, the bridge deck and opposite (south-side) walkway and fencing are visible. Six lanes of Interstate roadway and an exit ramp and some traffic can be seen.
She wears a yellow ball cap with an embroidered bee above the word "KIND." She also wears brown framed glasses and orange dangling earrings. Auburn hair spills from the back of the cap.
She smiles and focuses on a middle distance somewhere beyond the camera and to our left. She holds her head still and at angle seemingly intended to present the best possible view of the ball cap to the camera.
Me: "That a new hat?"
Crissy: "It is! It just got here today!"

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jul 9

Waving Flags & Hands #Indivisible #KansasCity #BridgeBrigade Sni-A-Bar Road I-435 Overpass ahead of the #FIFA #WorldCup Columbia/Ghana match 3 July 2026

Photo: A view, west to east, down a concrete walkway across a bridge. It is bordered on the right by a chain-link fence that curves near its top over the walkway and, on the left, by a concrete barrier topped with a steel rail that protects the walkway from the bridge traffic.
Also visible: a similar barrier, walkway, and fence, on the far left, the opposite (north) side of the bridge.
A large U.S. flag is attached at its corners to the fencing near the center of the image. The flag's center,animated by a light wind out of the south, bulges in-board towards the walkway.
Just beyond that flag, Tim II in black track shorts and white sleeveless top and red, white, and blue ball cap, leans forward to wave at the on-coming traffic (not shown, beyond the frame on the right).
Beyond Tim, Karen in a white top and jean shorts and visor, also waves.
Other demonstrators are partially visible.
They hold and wave smaller flags over their heads.

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jul 9

Behind the Scene #Indivisible #KansasCity #BridgeBrigade Sni-A-Bar Road I-435 Overpass ahead of the #FIFA #WorldCup Columbia/Ghana match 3 July 2026

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jul 9

3 July 2026: #Indivisible #KansasCity continued to welcome players and fans to the #FIFA #WorldCup with pro-democracy banners on overpasses along routes to the stadium. Shown here, their #BridgeBrigade on the Sni-A-Bar Road I-435 Overpass ahead of the Columbia (1) / Ghana (0) match. Temperature: 93F

Photo with its colors manipulated post production:
The photo depicts a highway overpass. Chain-link fencing along the side of the overpass has a large U.S. flag and a couple of signs attached to it that are facing the camera. Vehicles approach and pass under the bridge. With their back sides to the camera.
The signs read:
"FUTBOL UNITES ICE DIVIDES" (with the O in futbol replaced by a soccer ball)
"Sni-A-Bar Road" (this is an Interstate road sign)
"LOVE [soccer ball image] HATE ICE"
There are two colorful posters on the fence. One depicts the Statue of Liberty delivering a solid left jab to Trump's jar. The other shows Trump and Epstein hugging under a headline reading "BESTIES."

Manipulations:
All the color has been removed from the sky, leaving only blackness and texture suggested by white shapes behind.
The colors in the signs have been altered to make them more readable through the fencing.
Foliage in the photo, the bridge itself, and the traffic passing under it, have been desaturated into halftones ("black & white"), with the exception of the two vehicles closest to the camera, which remain in their original colors.
All but one of the vehicle license plates in the image have been blurred. The plate not blurred has had its numbers replaced with the words "NO ICE." (This is the only "text" in the photograph that has been altered.
No "AI" was used to edit this photograph.

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jul 8

1. Landscaping consistently ranks among the most dangerous professions in the U.S. Typically at least as dangerous as law enforcement, some years much more so; 2. Add to that ICE targeting these workers for indefinite detention in inhumane conditions; seriously ... 3. We need to watch out for them.

Cellphoto: a bright orange diamond shaped sign on the back of a lawn equipment trailer reading, "Landscapers Ahead." The trailers lights are functioning (and two of them are flashing yellow).
A nearby light pole has a no parking sign on it.

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jun 30

#LocalResistance Meets #Zany #CupMania A #reuse, for the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekZforZany, of recent LRB #photojournalism from coverage of the #IndivisibleKC #BridgeBrigade event for the #FIFA26 Ecuador/Curaçao match. Sni-A-Bar Road I-435 Overpass #KansasCity, #Missouri (w/original alt text)

Photo: Northbound traffic begins to stack up near the 50th Street on-ramp to I-435 prior to a World Cup match. The south side of the Sni-a-Bar Road viaduct is lined with local protesters, a large US flag, and banners reading:
"86 47"
"JUSTICIA PARA TODOS"
"NO ICE IN THE CUP" (where the "O" in "NO" is a soccer ball).
In the foreground, there are a lot of vehicles headed to the game. Most prominent is a white van sporting an Ecuador flag, topped with a giant half-a-soccer-ball and pulling a trailer carrying a colorful clown car. The black SUV behind it also sports an Ecuador flag.
License plate numbers in the photo have been obscured, post-production, with pro-democracy messaging to interfere with license-plate reading technology. Also for the entertainment of the photographer.

Indivisible KC Bridge Brigade
20 June 2026
Sni-a-Bar Road / I-435 Overpass
Kansas City, Missouri

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jun 29

a gathering of stuffies on their favorite rocks #AlphabetChallenge #WeekZforZany

Assorted Lambchop[tm] stuffies sprawl on rocks on a brick wall. Left-to-right: Big Lambie, Tiny Lambie, Mid Lambie, Party Lambie, Blue Lambie

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jun 29

The Napping of the Party Animals: Lambchop & Lucy #DogsOfBluesky #DogPictures #UglyDogs #AlphabetChallenge #WeekZforZany

Cellphoto: Lucy (on the right) takes a nap with her new best friend and fellow party animal Lambchop (on left with party paws and hat).
[Lambchop is a stuffed plush dog toy modeled on the puppet of the same name. Lucy is a plain old white golden retriever. They lie forehead to forehead, Lucy with her eyes closed in sleep. Lampchop's eyes are, well, she's a plush toy, so ... no telling.]

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jun 29

The takedown. And cookies. Indivisible Kansas City at the Cup Sni-A-Bar Road I-435 Overpass #KansasCity, #Missouri 27 June 2026

Photo: Wayne, the Indivisible safety coordinator for this event, wears a safety yellow vest; wide-brimmed, dark khaki hat with a red bandana band; mirrored sunglasses; a peace sign; an Indivisible ID tag; and a body camera.
He also holds an plastic bin filled with cookies with pink icing and sprinkles. Some of the cookies have googly eyes.
He stands by the concrete and steel barrier that protects the sidewalk on the bridge's north side, offering the cookies to the camera.
Tim, off-camera to the left, casts a shadow on the sidewalk as he begins to disasemble a banner on that side of the sidewalk. The photographer casts a shadow on the cookies.
"There's a lady," Wayne says, "who can't come, for whatever reason. But she wants to do something; so she bakes cookies; and I pick 'em up and bring them."
"Everybody does their thing," he adds.
Beyond Wayne, Teresa and Joe pack away another sign.
The chain link fence on the left winds towards the east end of the overpass.

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jun 29

Person with flag. Indivisible Kansas City at the Cup Sni-A-Bar Road I-435 Overpass #KansasCity, #Missouri 27 June 2026

Photo: Joe, photographed from below, stands in silhouette (except you can make out that he's wearing blue jeans and a white T) on the bridge's north side looking down toward the freeway, partially behind and between two sets of white-on-black lettered bridge signs. He holds high a U.S. flag.
The signs, shown only in part here, read, in full:
"[HOW ABOUT THOSE TRUMP/EPSTEIN] FILES"
and
"HONK = NO IC[E] (NO) WA[R]"
Note: letters [in brackets] are the ones not shown in this photo.

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jun 29

People and signs. Indivisible Kansas City at the Cup Sni-A-Bar Road I-435 Overpass #KansasCity, #Missouri 27 June 2026

Photo: Jackie stands on the south side of the bridge facing south looking through its chain link fence at the traffic below, waving with her right hand and holding a U.S. flag in her left hand. Behind her is the concrete and steel barrier that separates the walkway where she's standing from the bridge deck's roadway.
Interstate-facing signage is strapped with elastic cord to the fencing on either side of her, its messages hidden from the camera (see earlier photo in thread), but roadway-facing signs have been inserted behind the cordage that is visible on the bridge. It reads:
"Defend the Constitution"
"WAKE UP and SMELL the CORRUPTION"
"BBB*S | BOMB | BRIBE | BLAME"
"WAR DIVIDES | HOPE UNITES"

Photo: Teresa (left) and Justin (right) stand on the north-side walkway of the bridge holding signs in the early evening. Teresa wears a blue T and a white bucket hat with a rainbow stripe around its crown and sunglasses with frames colored to represent strawberries. Justin is hatless in a red T and regular glasses. He's grinning at her while she's asking how they're supposed to hold their signs for the camera.
Teresa's sign has a silhouette of a convicted felon currently occupying the U.S. presidency, shown here behind bars. A message on the sign, handwritten in red and orange ink, reads, "ARREST the Pedo President."
Justin's sign has an outline of a crown, drawn in black ink on safety yellow poster board, with a big red "X" on it. It reads, "NO KINGS."
To Justin's left (our right) the tree-lined Sni-A-Bar road winds off to the southwest. Behind them are the viaduct's two traffic lanes, a concrete barrier protecting the walkway on the other side of the bridge, and the chain-link fence on that side.

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jun 29

Backstage: the set up. Indivisible Kansas City at the Cup Sni-A-Bar Road I-435 Overpass #KansasCity, #Missouri 27 June 2026

Photo: Fred, in khaki shorts and hat, stands facing southward on the south side of the viaduct, his back to the camera, getting ready to hang some flags.
A double-sided orange banner already is attached to the chain link fence between him and the interstate along the south edge of the bridge. The banner reads, "TrumpMustGo.org."

Photo: Tim (left) wears a KC BBQ t-shirt and black ball cap. Jackie (right) is hatless in a light grey t-shirt and the wind is blowing her hair all over the place as she holds a letter for a sign against a chain link fence with one hand and stretches a hooked elastic cord, from top towards bottom, to fasten it to the fence.

Photo: Joe, in a white T and navy blue sun hat, affixes the lower right-hand corner of a banner to a chain link fence.

Photo: Four people stand on the walkway on the south side of the Sni-A-Bar overpass. They are just getting started on setting up a pro-Democracy banner display on the bridge.
They are (left-to-right): Joe, in a white T and navy blue sun hat, who has just pulled a red-and-white striped banner from its travel cart. Tim, in a KC BBQ T and black ball cap and khaki shorts, who has armed himself with a collection of hooked elastic cords in varying lengths. Jackie, who is stretching to hook a cord (like one of those Tim holds) from top to bottom over the third letter in a message that will be visible to the Interstate traffic below. Crissy, in navy blue shorts and a medium blue t-shirt and a pastel flowered bucket cap, who is pulling the next letter to be added to the message from its box.

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jun 29

Flags and fencing. Indivisible Kansas City at the Cup Sni-A-Bar Road I-435 Overpass #KansasCity, #Missouri 27 June 2026

Photo: A U.S. flag and a flag celebrating the World Cup stretch across the sky together, lifted by a warm breeze from the south.
The photo looks at it from below. The flags fly straight out over the camera.
The U.S. flag is your regular U.S. flag. The World Cup flag is dark blue with lettering decorated with soccer-themed images. It reads, "2026 WELCOME" and has the flags of the three host nations along its bottom side: Canada, the United States, Mexico.
The flags are attached to the chainlink fence on the south side the bridge with a bungee cord stretched across the fence just beneath the horizontal bar where the fence stops rising directly vertical and begins to curve (northward) over the bridge sidewalk (to keep people from climbing the fence and jumping to their deaths, this being a thing we have to do with bridges).

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jun 29

27 June 2026: The #Indivisible Kansas City #BridgeBrigade joined with other visibility teams across the U.S. to oppose authoritarianism and support democracy. Shown here, their demonstration on the Sni-A-Bar Road I-435 Overpass ahead of the Algeria/Austria match in #KansasCity, #Missouri

Photo: Banners hang on the chain-link fence along the south edge of an Interstate overpass. The banners face the Interstate's northbound traffic and the camera, which has captured the image from behind the traffic (at a point just south of a merging lane for the freeway).
The traffic for this match is just getting started.
The banners read:
"TrumpMustGo.org"
"ONE WORLD | ONE GOAL" (with a soccer ball replacing the "O" in "goal")
"JUSTICE"
"ONE RACE: HUMAN"
"LOVE TRUMPS HATE"
"LOVE [ice emoji] HATE I.C.E."
A highway sign on the bridge reads "Sni-A-Bar Road"
The license plates of all but one of the vehicles approaching the viaduct have been blurred to frustrate data scrappers. The unblurred plate has been digitally modified to read: "NO ICE."

Photo: Banners hang on the chain-link fence along the north-side edge of an Interstate overpass. The banners face the Interstate's southbound traffic and the camera, which has captured the image from the other side of the steel railing at the edge the freeway's western shoulder.
The banners read:
"HOW ABOUT THOSE TRUMP/EPSTEIN FILES"
"HONK = NO ICE (NO) WAR"
Members of the visibility team stand behind the banners waving at the traffic. Two hold smaller signs, reading, "Save Democracy" and "We Are All Immigrants." Another holds a U.S. flag.
A silver SUV is about to pass under the viaduct, heading south, blurred by its motion.
A few more vehicles are visible as they approach the viaduct in the far-side, north-bound lanes.
The viaduct's piers, poured concrete shaped to imitate carved stone, are prominent in the center of the photograph.

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jun 26

I can relate. I enjoy taking pictures. I really do. I love it when they make me feel good. It's even better when they lift other's spirits, too. But sometimes ... sometimes I'm recording and reporting uncomfortable or despicable things like this: State Route 2 near #Freeman, #Missouri 17 July 2020

Cellphone Photo: a compound with a blue & white pre-fab utility building surrounded by a gravel drive & parking area.
There are 3 very tall flag poles flying 2 U.S. flags, 2 Trump flags, 1 "Christian" flag, 1 half-n-half U.S./secessionist flag.
The front half a pick-up truck is visible, w/a secessionist flag painted across its hood.
A sign in the drive reads Young's Crossing.
Rusty milk cans are distributed here & there, possibly with a decorative intent.
A yard sign promotes someone named "Webb" for an unspecified office, with the slogan "Restrict Governments | Not People."
There is an orange and white traffic cone
—
State Route 2
near Freeman, Missouri
17 July 2020

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jun 25

A stone bridge crosses #Antietam Creek down yonder. 500 Union soldiers were killed or wounded capturing this bridge from pro-slavery secessionists 17 September 1862. "Burnside Bridge" #Antietam National Battlefield #Sharpsburg, #Maryland November 2024 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYonder #CivilWar

Photo: Looking down from the side of a steep hill, a white stone bridge crosses a narrow stream on three arches. The trees on this side of the stream are bare. The grass on the hillside between the camera and the stream and in the narrow valley on the other side of the stream. The trees on the far side still have their leaves, but they are mostly dead and red. The sky beyond is blue with wispy white clouds.
"Burnside Bridge"
Antietam National Battlefield
Sharpsburg, Maryland
November 2024
OM-1: ƒ/10, 1/800, 17mm, ISO400

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jun 25

Yonder lie four Union veterans of the American #CivilWar. Union Cemetery #KansasCity, #Missouri 25 May 2014 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYonder #gravestone #cemetery #memorial (note: the cemetery gets its name from its 1857 origin as a cemetery for both the town of Westport and the town of Kansas.)

Photo: A cemetery view. The foremost gravestone is engraved:
GEO. STERNER / CO. B. / 38 OHIO INF.
"The 38th Ohio Infantry Regiment was organized in Defiance, Ohio and mustered in for three years service on September 1, 1861, under the command of Colonel Edwin D. Bradley."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38th_Ohio_Infantry_Regiment
Union Cemetery
Kansas City, Missouri
25 May 2014
D40X: ƒ/5.6, 1/125, 42mm, ISO200

Photo: A cemetery view. The foremost gravestone is engraved:
G. W. WELLER / CO. E. / 1 MICH. CAV.
"The 1st Michigan Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was a part of the famed Michigan Brigade, commanded by Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer for a time."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Michigan_Cavalry_Regiment
Union Cemetery
Kansas City, Missouri
25 May 2014
D40X: ƒ/5.6, 1/125, 46mm, ISO200

Photo: A cemetery view. The foremost gravestone is engraved:
LIEUT W. P. COOK / BATT'N ADJT. / 3 MO S M CAV
"The 3rd Missouri Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War principally in Missouri and Arkansas."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_Missouri_Cavalry_Regiment_(Union)
Union Cemetery
Kansas City, Missouri
25 May 2014
D40X: ƒ/5.6, 1/125, 34mm, ISO160

Photo: A cemetery view. The foremost gravestone is engraved:
LIEUT Wm VANCE / 21 OHIO INF
"The 21st Ohio Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Mostly an all-volunteer unit, with the exception of a few draftees, the 21st Ohio served for both ninety-day and three-year enlistments and fought exclusively in the Western Theater. It saw action in some of the war's bloodiest battles including Stones River, Chickamauga, the Atlanta campaign, and Sherman's March to the Sea."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_Ohio_Infantry_Regiment
Union Cemetery
Kansas City, Missouri
25 May 2014
D40X: ƒ/6.3, 1/160, 46mm, ISO200

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jun 24

Back Yonder … is the Cathedral Group peak cluster in the … #GrandTeton #NationalPark near … #Jackson, #Wyoming August 2011 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYonder #mountains #landscape #DogsOfBlueSky #UglyDogs #DogPictures

Photo: A large orange and white St. Bernard/Bernese Mountain mix dog (Suzi Q (2009-2022)) sits amid the light green sage on a Wyoming plain looking back over her shoulder at a jagged and rocky, snow-dappled mountain range in the not-too distant distance behind her.

On a plain in front of the Cathedral Group peak cluster in the
Grand Teton National Park near
Jackson, Wyoming
August 2011
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D40X: ƒ/4.2, 1/60, 62mm, ISO1000

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jun 23

Yonder rise the walls of the Chalma canyon … around the … Monastery of Christ in the Desert #Abiuqi, #NewMexico September 2021 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYonder #southwest #desert #landscape

Photo: In the immediate foreground, an iron bell hangs from a porch ceiling joist of a building in the New Mexico desert. Beyond the bell there is a green field with a few trees, some rail fencing and a couple of outbuildings. Yonder, beyond that field, rise the multi-colored walls of the Chalma canyon: a rusty red dotted with green foliage across their bottom two thirds, the bottom half of that scree and the top half sheer; a thin layer of white stone separates the red from a deep yellow top.
Monastery of Christ in the Desert
Abiuqi, New Mexico
September 2021

D5600: ƒ/11, 1/500, 18mm, ISO200
More information about the Benedictine monastery here:
https://christdesert.org/

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jun 23

Yonder lie Anna, Elizabeth, and John In the #WeekYforYonder of the #AlphabetChallenge Beard-Green Cemetery Dawes Arboretum #Newark, #Ohio October 2005 #gravestone #cemetery #memorial

Photo: Several gravestones in a "pioneer cemetery" in the deep green woods of eastern Ohio.
Three of them dominate the foreground, their texts barely discernible, transcribed here per the Find-a-Grave website, left-to-right:
An ornate yellow stone marker that appears to lean against a tree (it does not) with a cluster of flowers at its base, engraved:
"Here Lies the body of Anna, wife of James Alberry & relic[t] of Peter Myer who departed this life Aug 31 AD 1824 in the 65 year of her Age." ('relict' is an archaic word for widow)
A tall grey/white stone, engraved:
"Elizabeth, 2nd wife of Anthony Pitzer, died Dec. 1, 1850. Aged 73 yrs. 2m. & 23ds."
Another tall grey/white stone, broken, but repaired with iron braces, engraved:
"John Green; died June 24, 1830. Aged 25Y, (lost data)."
"Behold my friends as you pass by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now so you must be, prepare to die and follow me.

Beard-Green Cemetery
Dawes Arboretum
Newark, Ohio
October 2005
NIKON E8800: ƒ/3.2, 1/60, 15mm, ISO67

Sources:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20800629/anna-myer-alberry
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/relict
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20822639/elizabeth-b-pitzer
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20818749/john-green

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jun 22

Joe suppresses a smile. Tim I holds a flag. The event was just getting started. "What it's about is showing up. Showing people that they're not alone. There's more waving back now. More honking. A lot less confrontation." -- Tim I

Photo: Joe -- wearing a navy blue, mesh-sided sun hat, a white t-shirt, and dark glasses -- suppresses a smile. He's standing on the viaduct's north side walkway. Beyond him, affixed to the chain link fence on the viaduct's south edge, is a sign pointed toward the bridge's roadway: "86 47."

Photo: Tim I holds a U.S. flag as he was asked ("point it a little more this way," I said). He wears a bright orange t-shirt with text that reads "Trump Must Go Now" (but none of that text is visible because someone told him to point his flag a little more towards the center so it would fit in the frame, not his fault), a black ball cap and black-frame glasses.
He's not smiling, but he's cooperating. "I'm not used to being on this side (of the camera)," he says.
He's standing on the viaduct's north side walkway. Behind him, across the bridge's deck, is the chain link fence on the viaduct's south edge, southbound lanes of I-435, some greenery, and a lot of blue sky.

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jun 22

Tim II waves. Chrissy smiles. Jackie re-hydrates. Andy flashes a peace sign. Temperatures were in the 80s.

Photo: Tim II (no relation to another Tim working the other side of the bridge at this event (see next post)) wears red, white, and blue, including a 1776 flag trucker hat, star-spangled sunglasses, and a star-spangled wrist band. He waves left-handed at the traffic below. His t-shirt is white.
He stands near the steel-rail and concrete barrier separating the roadway from the viaduct's southside walkway. Behind him, Karen, in jean shorts, a white T, and a navy blue visor, stands next to the very tall chain link fence that lines the viaduct's souther edge. She, too, waves.
Further up the walkway are Chrissy, Jackie (barely visible), Keiran, and Walter, along with a cardboard box and a black net wagon used to transport the team's signage and the hooked bungee cords used to hang it.
Along the inside of the fence several units of signage are held in place by hooked bungee cords attached to the fence's chain links.

Photo: Chrissy smiles at the camera from beneath the brim of her blossom-print bucket hat. She wears a bright red t-shirt.
Along the inside of the fence several units of signage are held in place by hooked bungee cords attached to the fence's chain links.

Photo: Jackie, hatless in sunglasses and a blue top, grins and leans back to take an exaggerated swig of water from her white water bottle. She holds her cell phone in her other hand. Beyond her, near the end of the bridge's walkway, Keiran and Walter are headed back to their cars. Beyond the bridge, the first building off the bridge's east end is a white block of concrete or cinder block with a black door and window.

Photo: Andy is in his usual Uncle Sam outfit: oversized floppy red-white-and-blue top hat with matching overalls and a long fake white beard. He has one hand (not shown) holding the guardrail and the other one is waving a peace sign.

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jun 22

As promised, an exclusive glimpse backstage at #IndivisibleKC #BridgeBrigade 20 June 2026 Sni-a-Bar Road / I-435 Overpass #KansasCity, #Missouri (maybe not all *that* exclusive; they're standing in broad daylight, on a bridge, over an interstate; but hey ... )

Photo: Looking across the bridgedeck from the viaduct's northside walkway to its southside walkway, where five of the bridge brigadiers face an interstate's northbound pre-match traffic through a chain-link fence, with their backs to the camera.
They are (left to right) Keiran, Jackie, Chrissy, Walter, and Karen. Chrissy is just barely visible. She's in the red top.
Their banners, like themselves, face the interstate traffic below; but other smaller signs affixed to the fencing face the bridge deck, because there's traffic there, too. Two of these signs read:
"Defend the Constitution"
"WAKE UP and SMELL the CORRUPTION"
"USE YOUR VOTE"
Another depicts a convicted felon (who also happens to be the sitting president of the United States) in an orange jumpsuit (his favorite color!) being led away in handcuffs by a police officer. It is captioned, "I have a dream."
Another depicts that same felon with a red rubber nose and in white face. It is captioned, "CLOWN."

LaRoeBoat@johnlaroe· Jun 21

In Other World Cup News: Various visibility teams welcomed players and fans to the Ecuador/Curaçao match on four bridges in and around the host city, including: #IndivisibleKC #BridgeBrigade 20 June 2026 Sni-a-Bar Road / I-435 Overpass #KansasCity, #Missouri