Can you name this car? This company is not known for building engines in this configuration, but you already knew that.
Wonderment
Stepping gingerly over the domesticated sastrugi that makes up our deck after two weeks of winter, I unlatch the cover and open it. A moist comforting blanket of fog rises and surrounds me in the chill, dry wind. I slip in. The heat is as bracing as the cold I just left. Leaning back, the vastness of the sky unfolds above me.
Darkness that is the outlines of juniper and pine trees.
West coast air traffic coursing through the sky, navigational lights blinking.
A meteor falling north to south.
Cygnus has almost completed its flight over the western horizon, his beak almost touching the Cascades.
Jupiter shining brightly above China Hat Butte.
My brain soaks in the fact that some of the lights I’m seeing are in real-time, and others have spent billions of years traveling before landing.
Landing in my eyes here in a tub of hot water just west of the middle of nowhere Oregon after a journey across billions of years of space and time.
Makes one wonder.
Things outside my kitchen window on Thanksgiving morn’
Nick looked out the kitchen window just now and said “Look, a bunny!” Indeed there it is, a small rabbit. I grabbed my camera and shot it. Tilting the camera upwards to the western horizon and…
Car Photo(s) of the Day: More of the ’32 Chrysler Indy racer.
Of all the spectacular machines present at the Art Center School of Design Car Show I attended in 2009, this one stuck out as my favorite. Not because of its provenance really, but because of it’s well-worn and comfy patina. Unlike the ultra-perfect collection shown on the grass around it, this car was not over-restored. It wore its age like a nice old leather jacket.
Upon researching the car’s history it appears to have been restored in the 80s, but at least the owners since then have allowed it to be used as its makers intended.
Winter Arrives
Winter has arrived in Central Oregon, and with it a new pastime.
Nick has been running Cross-Country competitively for many years, and the XC season ends as soon as the snow falls. But now that we live in the mountains instead of at their feet he’s taken up a new sport: XC Skiing.
His new High School has a Cross Country Skiing team and he’s decided to join, despite never having put on the skinny skis… ever. The team started practice, in the form of running and general exercise after school a few weeks ago, but yesterday was their first venture “on the snow.”
We drove up to Mt. Bachelor and they took to the Nordic Center courses en masse. I tagged along with my camera.
Oregon Sky
The sunsets and sunrises here in Central Oregon are a real treat. This was my evening’s entertainment tonight on my way home on the Powell Butte Highway.
Shot with the Lumix G1 with the 20mmf/1.7 asph lens.
Car Photo of the Day: Still Life with Holley Carbs.
The CPotD returns! This car was my favorite machine on the field of the Art Center Car Show a couple of summer’s back. It wore a wonderful patina like an old leather jacket and a pair of faded jeans – relaxed and comfy compared to the over-restored straightjackets that surrounded it. Motivated by an old flathead straight-eight, that ultimate pre-war American machine, I bet it sounds wonderful when driven in anger.
Can you name the car?
Here is another view:
