Picto Diary - 05 June 2020 - Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming

Above: Goose Family. Bear River Greenway. Evanston, WY. 05 June 2020

Out and about in the F350.

Above: Bear River Greenway. Evanston, WY. 05 June 2020.

Out and about in the F350.

Above: Unidentified bird, mouth full of worms. Bear River Greenway, Evanston, WY. 05 June 2020.

Out and about in the F350.

Above: Parked UP locomotives. Kemmerer, WY. 05 June 2020.

Just as airlines had to park unused planes during economic downturn, so railroads park unused locomotives.

Above: Maharajah and Comic Mom. J.C. Penney Mother Store. Kemmerer, WY. 05 June 2020.

Out and about in the F350.

Picnic Kemmerer City Park.

J.C. Penny on its last legs. Now, in bankruptcy. Dad, Weldon J. Taylor, was a personal friend of J. C. Penney. While we were living in NYC in 1951, Dad and J.C. Penney met periodically for lunch.

Above: Fossil fish. Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming. 05 June 2020.

Out and about in the F350.

$1500 doesn't seem a lot for a 50 million year old fossil. — with Margaret Taylor at Fossil Butte National Monument.

Above: Antelope hanging out. Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming, 05 June 2020.

Out and about in the F350

Above: Wilfred Woodruff home. Randolph, UT. 05 June 2020.

Out and about in the F350 (pictured).

Built 1870. Home of fourth President of LDS Church.

Above: Bon Rico Restaurant. Evanston, WY. 05 June 2020.

Out and about in the F350.

On the recommendation of the WHP cop that stopped us on US 189 northbound to Kemmerer, the fossil excavator at Fossil Butte National Monument, and Tax, we tried this place. It seemed pricey until you discovered that the medium size ribeye was 22 ounces.