OFF THE BEATEN PATH ---> Picture Perfect for May 29th, 2009

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 Each week a new theme will be posted here on Friday morning. You are invited to put up your best picture on your own blog with that theme in mind, and you do have the whole weekend to post your picture, so there is no rush

Remember it should be just  ONE and ORIGINAL, taken by YOU,and not off the internet,

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Out of the box thinking is encouraged.

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This week it's Cherie hosting...and the theme she has chosen is

Off the Beaten Path

Artillery Impact Zone at the former Ft. Ord, Calif.

And yes, they are still catching people wandering in. . .

Some parts of the zone had been in use from the 1920s' up until the 7th Infantry Division, Light Fighters and Ft. Ord were deactivated in the 1990s. Everything from grenades, morters, artillery pieces, various hand held rockets, Heavy caliber anti-aircraft guns, to tanks had been fired into the impact zones over the years.

My father served in the 76th Field Artillery in the 1930s, based at the Presideo in Monterey, but trained on the guns at what would be the future Ft. Ord.  They still used horse drawn artillery, and used the French 75mm field piece of WWI.