Boring days of photography, where nothing goes the right way, can often lead to taking photos of random stuff. This includes old compact discs randomly discarded along highways in Indiana. This actually seemed extra appropriate to be found in Indiana. Read the rest of this entry »
The second day of spring in 2007 (read: prime tornado season), found me wandering across the plains of Oklahoma (read: Tornado Alley) on my way back from California and Arizona. Somewhere on the arrow-straight and pancake-flat Oklahoma Highway 11 between Alva and Medford, OK, I noticed a sign to a tourist attraction. I actually had to do a U-turn on the highway to go back and make sure I had seen it correctly. I had in fact seen it right, it pointed motorists north along Highway 11A five miles to the small town of Wakita, OK, where they had what was billed as the “Twister: The Movie Museum”. This I had to see. Read the rest of this entry »
During the day, the Mojave Desert is a harsh, unforgiving landscape. But, in the minutes after sunset, the Mojave takes on a completely different look; different hues and shades of colors appear and rapidly fade into the twilight. Sounds carry for quite a ways out there too. Especially the sound of thousands of horsepower lifting a couple thousand tons of commerce out of the Colorado River valley, in the shadow of the Dead Mountains. Read the rest of this entry »
Somewhere along historic old Route 66, near Bagdad, CA, is this excellent parcel of land for sale. It’s situated just south of the main highway and very near to the BNSF mainline, providing excellent transportation options. Also, just out the backdoor of your potential new home would be the Twentynine Palms Marine Corp Air Ground Combat Center, providing hours of entertainment for the kids. Not to mention it’s located in the Amboy School District, with it’s small class sizes and high teacher to student ratio. Plus, the climate here, in the middle of the Mojave Desert is warm and sunny year round! What will it take to put you into this land today? See your local Century 21 agent right away! Read the rest of this entry »
You’ll have to forgive me for bringing up yet another old photo (this, like yesterdays, is from my Cali road trip in 2007), but I’ve been revisiting a lot of these to print out and put up on my walls. And, this is one of my favorites. I think the vertical version of this shot won an award or something. Anyway…out along the Texas Panhandle, making my way towards Amarillo and trying to stay out of the way of the Texas-sized thunderstorms brewing all around on this first day of spring, I managed to run into quite a few trains along US 60. This is somewhere between Hereford and Canyon, TX. I noticed a headlight sneaking up behind me on the ever-so-flat plains, and pulled off the road to photo this BNSF Z train hustling its time sensitive load of trailers toward Chicago. Read the rest of this entry »
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