Survey attire

Well, here's a Central Texas survey party ca. 1913. Aside from the engineer, the field dress isn't that far off presentday standards.

Well, with certain exceptions that come to mind.

And of course there is always this pair that I photographed in Hays County. Believe it or not, both of these gents are accomplished land surveyors!

It must be above 15°f in the lower picture, Canadian spring.

Here's a scruffian I met out in West Texas one time on a ridge in the Del Norte Mountains. I have no idea what happened to that fellow.

He bears a slight resemblence to a younger Kent McMillan....but no way Kent has aged that much....

Where do the years go?

> He bears a slight resemblence to a younger Kent McMillan....but no way Kent has aged that much....
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> Where do the years go?

Funny you mention that, Tom. I have some photos of myself from 1998 that look so much like the fellow in the picture that we could be mistaken for one another. Scary to think about what he might be up to.

More supervising during a training than actually working...

Must be some sort of distant relatives....

Lots of folk got lost wandering around in West Texas....

Is that a FENCE they're standing next to???? Tell me it isn't so.

> Is that a FENCE they're standing next to???? Tell me it isn't so.

Rest assured that tt was just a casual fence strung across an old roadway. We were looking at some old bearing trees from the 1880's that showed where the boundary actually was.

Here's me wearing my current standard field getup: 501 button-fly Levis, a Lands' End Overstocks shirt (long sleeves and collar for sun protection), a blaze orange boonie hat, and Redwings (not visible). The pose isn't typical; this was taken during observation of the Sacramento Calibration Base Line last August. I don't normally get to sit while I work in the field.

I don't normally look so haggard, but it was 108° that day, and even though I was in the shade most of the time I was unable to drink water fast enough to stave off the effects of the heat. I was pretty wiped out by the end of the day when this was taken.

That Fella's name wouldn't happen to be Dan would it?

Yes McMoundfinder, I well recognise the chap in these pics.

The upper was when he was encountered by a camera on a bonnie wee sunny day in March a few years ago, whilst running line near North Aboyne Farm's driveway/lane.

The other was taken when he was in close consultation with the late great Oswald, a true master rooster of Z-Maxian coordinating delight !

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BTW-

We promise not to serve you Vegemite when you come to pick up your crystalized water vapo(u)r order.

Do remember to bring your Tundra's water tight container

> That Fella's name wouldn't happen to be Dan would it?

No, oddly enough he and I share the same first name.

He looked like someone I worked with 30 years ago except about 30 years older.

That reminds me one time Neal and I were working in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I thought it was in the 90s. I had to sit down and felt pretty bad. I couldn't figure it out until we saw a thermometer on one of the adjoiner's patios which showed 108F, no wonder.

> He looked like someone I worked with 30 years ago except about 30 years older.

I'm pretty sure that fellow said that he'd begun his surveying career around Austin. He had all sorts of derogatory things to say about East Texas and I gathered that most of his work had been in Central and West Texas. If you ever run into him, don't get him started on Oklahoma, either.

funny choice of a hammer, 12oz wouldn't cut it around here.