Nevada Highway 50 Shoe Tree and Smoky Skies

A Saturday road trip on Highway 50 East and we 

stop to see the shoe tree.  Lots of smoke still in the sky with 

more and more shoes, thankfully.  

We are happy to have a shoe tree here again.  

We stop just past Austin and see a Lincoln Highway road marker.

I don't think there are many like this left, but maybe I just haven't found them.

It is a lonely highway and sometimes all there is to take a

photo of is some barbed wire.  

I'm learning to use my new Olympus Pen camera

and figuring out how it focuses has been interesting.

We stopped at a place called Ackerman Springs.

(I didn't see any water but my husband did and these

horses were probably thirsty).

We were sitting on the tailgate having lunch

and mama and her baby ran up and halted quickly

when they saw us.  My camera doesn't have much

of a zoom so I walked toward them as far as was 

comfortable and until she gave me the head nod 

and hoof scraping on the ground that told me I was close enough.

I've only see wild horses this color in remote places.

Very different coloring than those at Silver Springs and along the Truckee River