Quicksand Fans

I had to move out of my mudpit and into a lesser bog (it has water on top, not so good for pictures) due to the opening of our state's first hunting season for some animal or another. But, hey, at least my new spot is in the sun, and I can milk the sinking season for awhile yet, off-camera, in the cold-weather gear.

I haven't seen this mudpit since the snow was melting off of it spring. It was already drying out so bad, I never even tried to sink in it past about May.

It's been a sad summer for mud around here. These pictures are from a year ago.

Nessie

Nice lookin bog..and I LOVE that last pic!
Wish I coulda been there

poolshark wrote:...and I LOVE that last pic!

I was thinking the same thing. That's a great image. It says a lot.

The last picture is simply awesome. Thanks, as always.

Boy, does it ever!!! I'm catching a contact buzz off that pic right now.

Duncan Edwards wrote:

poolshark wrote:...and I LOVE that last pic!

I was thinking the same thing. That's a great image. It says a lot.

Stellar pictures, Nessie, particularly the last one...

Thanks for sharing them with us...

Looking at the last pic again, I am struck by the similarity (except blonde hair instead of redhead), with Lois Nettleton's stills for the movie poster for Valley of Mystery - almost caught at the same instant in sinking time. Again, good pix.

The middle one is my favorite and suggest to me a dramatic B movie sink of the heroine in peril about to be rescued or attempting to rescue someone else.

This one is a classic!!

Robert

Gee...I almost didn't include the last pic! You guys are hard to predict!

I am glad you are enjoying the pictures. (But unfortunately I'm not familiar with the Lois Nettleton scene. I will have to take your word for it on the similarity.)

The two pics with the sweater were taken on a Saturday when I rode my bike up to that mudpit, and I saw that white sweater at a garage sale for fifty cents. The lady who sold it to me said, "Be sure to wear that to church tomorrow." It was very hard to keep a straight face as I handed her two quarters and threw it in the bike basket.

All I could think about was how nice that fabric would pick up the peat. That poor sweater ended its life on on the Altar Of Mud before the day was out.

Nessie

Nessie - the Lois Nettleton reference was from a 1967 color TV movie named "Valley of Mystery." An airplane crashes in the Venezuelan jungle. Lois (Rita Brown) of course wanders away from the crash site and falls into a peat-looking quicksand pit, in a white dress with a top that looks remarkably like what you bought at your yard sale. Peter Graves is the "hero" who pulls her out with a (manufactured) vine. This is such a common clip that I am surprised you haven't seen it, but you know, a quick search can't find it. I have it on an old VHS Dave L. femqs tape. If you go to The Quicksand Page, Quicksand in the Movies, you can see stills from the scene - it's the last hyperlink listed - one of the frames shows the chest-deep Rita (Lois) - that's the one your picture imitates.