Pics & Bits
Moments saved.
Huh…
I thought we all believed in the purple mountains’ majesty
Evening in Southern Louisiana
America is a beautiful thing...
A Wander About America
I had a Cajun friend in the Army. He grew up in the bayou and swore in French.
Hey!
Hey!
Train Dork
A very good friend of mine is a train dork
Yellow Coffee
The yellow water of Winnfield, Louisiana makes excellent coffee
Juana
Juana Flores is sixty-two and has worked at the Shiloh Inn for twenty years.
Bye-bye, Bud
Busch Light has taken over…
For Rent
The Honey Hole Diner
I Need a New Hobby
Maybe I should find a new hobby…
Shade
Sunny, mid-80s, a break in the shade in the middle of Iowa farm country…
Big Peach
Bluelexis, The Goat, Tessa, Big Peach and Jason
WTF Motel
He stopped, bent down and out of the gutter picked up a bright, shiny Bowie knife and held it above his head
Laundry Day
I just thought it was a fun picture…
Shattered Patella
Monday, Jane fell and broke her right patella and right arm and I’m home in Minneapolis (for those who don’t know me personally, Jane’s my wonderful wife of 29 years).
Robert Preston’s America
Southeastern Minnesota and northeastern Iowa were as charismatic as ever, tall corn lapping against pretty farm buildings, rolling hills and gently winding roads with little traffic, well-tended towns with kids in shorts celebrating their last days of freedom, the skies blue and the weather not too hot.
Headstones from the 1700s
Headstones from the 1700s
Confederate Outhouse
Confederate Outhouse
Dad and Son
The boots are the story
When The Road Is Good
Once in a while, when the road is good and the air temperature and humidity and the thrum of intake, ignition and exhaust are just so, motorcycling creates its own ethereality. Yesterday was like that.
An Odd and Fitting Talisman
America is a beautiful thing... In the Army, I was a reconnaissance specialist assigned to the 1/1 Cavalry Squadron at O’Brien Barracks in Schwabach, West Germany. We spent several months of the year in the field and I needed a knife, a heavy, general purpose knife...
Be Glad You Missed the Show…
Skinny dipping in the Eleven Point River
A Damn Nice Way To End The Day
Chatting it up with a bearded, long-haired local in a camo-schemed 70’s Chevy 4×4 pickup idling along a gravel track in a secluded State Recreation Area is not a story, it’s a movie.