#la junta colorado

[robertmatejcek]

Untitled Otero College Campus Solargraph No. Two - paper negative (three month exposure +/-), aluminum can pinhole camera - robert matejcek - 2023

"When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said, 'No, I made a few mistakes.'" - Steven Wright

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[aryburn-trains]

AT&SF locomotive, engine number 3751, engine type 4-8-4 Train #4, California Limited; 10 cars, 60 MPH. Photographed: west of La Junta, Colo., March 18, 1934.

[news-buzz]

Spider lovers scurry to Colorado city searching for mating tarantulas and neighborhood

LA JUNTA, Colo. (AP) — Love is within the air on the Colorado plains — the sort that makes your coronary heart beat a bit sooner, quickens your step and makes the hair on the again of your neck get up. It is tarantula mating season, when male spiders scurry out of their burrows searching for a mate, and a whole bunch of arachnophiles flock to the small farming city of La Junta to look at them…

[rodpower78]

The westbound El Capitan and Super Chief pause at La Junta, Colo., in May 1965. Photo by Jim Neubauer.

[bluelizardlives]

Best thing about La Junta? Their welcome sign has a place to take a nap.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

(photo: Ken Kesey, New York City, November 1985, by Allen Ginsberg)

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The late great Merry Prankster Ken Kesey was born on this day 1935 in La Junta Colorado. Probably best known for is novel “One Flew over The Cuckoo’s Nest,” it was his legendary Acid Test parties down the SF peninsula in La Honda with the house band The Warlocks which he and fellow pranksters hosted after their return from the cross country trip on their dayglo painted school bus called “Furthur” (popularized in Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test), that solidly launched the psychedelic 60s. The Warlocks in short order would change their name to the Grateful Dead...

Ken Kesey on Allen Ginsberg:

“Back in (19)66 or (19)67, we took the bus up to Berkeley for Vietnam Day. The day before the big rally, the Hell’s Angels said they were going to protest Vietnam Day by pounding the shit out of the protestors, and they were serious. Since we kind of knew the Angels, we went over to Oakland, to Sonny Barger‘s house. Ginsberg went with us, right into the lion’s mouth with his little cymbals. Ching, ching ching. And he just kept talking and being his usual absorbing self. Finally they said, “OK, OK, We’re not going to beat up the protesters’. When he left, one of the Angels, Terry the Tramp, says, “That queer little kike ought to ride a bike. From then on, he had a pass around the Angels. They had let all the other Angels know. “He’s a dude worth helping out”. They were absolutely impressed by him and his courage.”

[dispelzine]

Exemplars / First Street, La Junta, Colorado.

[thedisablednaturalist]

[harrowitzer]

The Art Project - Street murals in La Junta, Colorado, USA

[callmeanxietygirl]

¡¡¡Guau!!! 😲 No puedo creer esto, ¿lo sabías???

🇺🇸Todos sabemos que el estado de Texas es enorme. La mayoría no conoce el TEX-A-PLEX. ¿Tú?

¡¡¡¡Va a sorprenderte por completo!!!!

🐄🐄🐄 La región triangular enmarcada por las ciudades de Austin, Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston y San Antonio está experimentando una ola de crecimiento de proporciones históricas más que en cualquier parte del mundo.

⚡️ En 2020, la población del Triángulo de Texas alcanzó casi 21 millones.

💥 el Triángulo de Texas contiene cinco de las 20 ciudades más grandes de EE. UU. y albergaba a más del 70% de todos los tejanos: Ciudad de Dallas, Ciudad de Fort Worth, Ciudad de Austin, Ciudad de Houston y Ciudad de San Antonio

🛫El Aeropuerto Internacional Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) es más grande que todo Mannahattan.

🏞️La Universidad de Texas en Austin es el tercer mayor propietario de tierras en los Estados Unidos.

🌮San Antonio es más grande que la ciudad de Nueva York y Detroit juntas.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👩‍👩‍👧‍👦Houston tiene una población mayor que Colorado y otros 34 estados.

🏢Cuatro de las diez principales áreas estadísticas metropolitanas están en Texas.

🔥 La economía de Texas está en llamas. El estado agregó 660,000 nuevos empleos el año pasado: más empleos que cualquier otro y el doble de nuevos empleos en comparación con su promedio histórico. Con Dallas liderando por lejos el crecimiento.

📆 50.000 empleos al mes, es decir, casi 2.000 empleos al día todos los días de la semana durante todo un año.

❌Sin impuesto estatal sobre la renta

✅El Tex-a-plex alberga más de 50 empresas Fortune 500. Y tiene más empresas Fortune 1000 que cualquier otro estado.

💰 Con 2,4 TRILLONES, Texas está clasificada como la novena economía más grande entre las naciones del mundo por PIB, por delante de Canadá, Corea del Sur, Rusia y Australia.

🚢Texas es el mayor exportador de bienes de Estados Unidos

💵Dallas es el hogar del cuarto lugar con más MULTIPLENARIOS del mundo.

💡Houston tiene más de 5.000 empresas relacionadas con la energía y es la capital energética del mundo.

🩻El Texas Medical Center es el más grande del mundo ubicado en Houston.

🎁El 25 % de TODO el espacio comercial en los Estados Unidos se encuentra en Texas.

🎼🎹Austin es la capital mundial de la música en vivo. South By Southwest Austin City Limits en vivo en The Moody Theatre (ACL Live)

🤽‍♀️⛹️‍♀️🏌🏻Hay 12 equipos deportivos profesionales en Tex-A-Plex.

📘📗📕 Puedes continuar tu educación en el gran estado de Texas en cualquiera de las 159 universidades y colegios para prepararte para una carrera exitosa y próspera. Incluyendo 6 escuelas de medicina.

La Universidad Texas A&M tiene una matrícula de 74,829, la más grande cuerpo estudiantil en los Estados Unidos

-republicado porque no sabía todo esto y lo encontré interesante.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 7.20 (after 1940)

1940 – Denmark leaves the League of Nations. 1940 – California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway. 1941 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrentiy Beria its chief. 1944 – World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. 1950 – Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs. 1950 – After a month-long campaign, the majority of North Korea's Air Force was destroyed by anti-communist forces. 1951 – King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem. 1954 – Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany. 1960 – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government. 1960 – The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time. 1961 – French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte. 1964 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong forces attack the capital of Định Tường Province, Cái Bè, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of whom are children). 1968 – The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities. 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11's crew successfully makes the first human landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later. 1969 – A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, six days after the beginning of the "Football War". 1974 – Turkish invasion of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a coup d'état, organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios. 1976 – The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars. 1977 – The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments. 1977 – The Johnstown flood of 1977 kills 84 people and causes millions of dollars in damages. 1981 – Somali Airlines Flight 40 crashes in the Balad District of Somalia, killing 40 people. 1982 – Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses. 1985 – The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles. 1989 – Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest. 1992 – Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia. 1992 – A Tupolev Tu-154 crashes during takeoff from Tbilisi International Airport, killing all 24 aboard and four more people on the ground. 1999 – The Chinese Communist Party begins a persecution campaign against Falun Gong, arresting thousands nationwide. 2005 – The Civil Marriage Act legalizes same-sex marriage in Canada. 2012 – James Holmes opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring 70 others. 2012 – Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the cities of Amuda and Efrîn without resistance. 2013 – Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca. 2013 – Syrian civil war: The Battle of Ras al-Ayn ends with the expulsion of Islamist forces from the city by the People's Protection Units (YPG). 2015 – The United States and Cuba resume full diplomatic relations after five decades. 2017 – O. J. Simpson is granted parole to be released from prison after serving nine years of a 33-year sentence after being convicted of armed robbery in Las Vegas.

[robertmatejcek]

Untitled Otero College Campus Solargraph No. One - paper negative (three month exposure +/-), aluminum can pinhole camera - robert matejcek - 2023

Lazlo Cravensworth: “What kind of goat-sorcery is this?" - Matt Berry - What We Do in the Shadows

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[aryburn-trains]

ATSF California Limited at La Junta, Colorado in 1954.

[itsescribiendocosas]

Le agradezco a la vida no haber muerto antes de conocerte, nunca pensé que iba a agradecer no haber muerto aquella vez, pero si, hoy en día que te conocí estoy eternamente agradecida por haber luchado. Tenía que pasar para que hoy pueda admirar las ondas de tu colorado cabello, ver cómo caen hasta tus hombros con un brillo que me da envidia que otros también lo vean, o cuando usas tu rodete que muestra tus aritos colgados de tus orejas tan delicadas. La melodía de tu voz pudo llegar a mis timpanos y segregar endorfinas con solo eso. Sobreviví para poder ver tus largas pestañas abanicarse y crear un tsunami ahogando mi corazón, dejandolo sin nada de aliento y super embobado porque debajo de esas pestañas dos semillas de café me miran y por eso me mantienen despierta todas las noches, deseando que solo me miren a mi, soñando con una vida juntas, agarradas de la mano, besandonos en cada esquina, compartiendo juntas nuestros suspiros. Mis pulmones siguieron respirando para poder sentir el tacto de tus suaves manos, para poder memorizarme cada parte de tus facciones y aprenderme todas las cosas que te gustan y también las que no, para saber todo de vos, todo es interesante, para estudiarme la forma de tus hombros y el color de tu piel, saberme la ubicación exacta de cada uno de tus lunares y si algún día tengo suerte poder besarlos. Te conocí porque la vida no se terminó cuando tenia 15 años.

_Ela.

16 /01/2024

- 1:15 am

[kteylynn]

BSE is on its way from La back to La Junta, Colorado. Gwen and boys aboard?

Sounds like they are flying back there with Blake to have a fun weekend.

[incognito-princess]

In case you wanted to travel around Eastern Colorado today... you can't!

Colorado State Patrol 

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Attention drivers: Important road closures are coming up that may affect your travel plans. Stay informed and plan your routes accordingly to avoid delays. Here is a list of current closures:

I-70 Eastbound Airpark to Burlington

I-70 Westbound Burlington to Limon

I-25 Southbound from Pueblo to Colorado/New Mexico state line

US 24 Eastbound/Westbound Calhan to Limon

US 40 Westbound from Cheyenne Wells to Limon

US 160 Eastbound/Westbound from US 350 Junction to CO 389 Junction

US 160 Eastbound/Westbound from Kim to US 385 Junction

US 287 Northbound from Wiley to Kit Carson

US 350 Eastbound Eastbound/Westbound from Trinidad to La Junta

CO 59 Northbound/Southbound from Yuma to Kit Carson

CO 71 Northbound/Southbound from Last Chance to Punkin Center

CO 86 Eastbound/Westbound from Kiowa to I-70

CO 94 Eastbound/Westbound from El Paso County line to US 40/287 Junction

CO 109 Northbound/Southbound from La Junta to Kim

CO 389 Northbound/ Southbound from New Mexico state line to US 160 Junction