Sometimes the most thought provoking pictures are just one handed snaps whilst bike riding down the river trail at dusk.
Stormfront
Storms come and storms go. The mistake is to think that we are victims to them. Worth more then gold they are laid at our feet to serve us in our progress.
Green Desolation
Somehow this scene always reminds me of a Mad Max movie. The future wasteland with sparingly placed outposts and desperate security such as man powered gates and fences that push- out of the way when people need to come in. Alas, this is Torrance California, almost a wasteland but not yet for a few years we hope……
One Light
One light, one car. A solitary street with nothing on it. Dirt and gravel, asphalt and fence. A lovelorn truck with nobody in it.
Landyacht Ahoy
I always liked these old trailers, but never thought to look up the companies info or history. One night as I was wandering around industrial Costa Mesa I happened upon one. From my best guess, it looks like a 1955-58 caravan model of some sort. I think they were in the middle of a restoration process as the panels look sanded. When restored these can look amazingly brilliant, especially gleaming in the morning sun in the mountains after a camp out.
From Wikipedia- Airstream is a brand of luxury recreational vehicle manufactured in Jackson Center, Ohio, USA. It is currently a division of Thor Industries. The company, which now employs fewer than 400, is the oldest in the industry. Airstream trailers are easily recognized for their distinctive rounded aluminum bodies, which originated in the 1930s from designs created by Hawley Bowlus. Bowlus was the chief designer of Charles Lindbergh’s aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis.
In 1969, upon their return from the Moon, the crew of Apollo 11 were quarantined in the Mobile Quarantine Facility, a modified airtight Airstream trailer, until it could be determined that there was little likelihood of their having brought back “lunar pathogens” with them.
For decades, NASA has used a fleet of Airstream motorhomes to transport astronauts to the launch pad. The space shuttle program has used a modified 1983 Airstream Excella since 1984 dubbed the Astrovan.[2]
When completed to original , they look like this :
Early Morning in the Rain
There is a really cool smell and feeling every time it rains. Maybe that’s just because we don’t get very much of it here in Southern California. Having the sky transform into a murky opaque soup while the wind blows water on everything and cleans it is truly a spectacle, even if just a small one. Pretty soon that bus will start-up and take some puddle stomping kids to class.
Invisible yet obvious
“Windy night over refinery in Torrance Ca”
Here is a normal phenomenon we take for granted every day. In the quest to quantify only what we see and touch in our electronic world, we totally forget some of natures forces. Wind is fantastically obvious in effect and force. Yet it is totally invisible of its own.
The ancient Greeks used the word “Pneuma” to describe wind, or breath as they saw it. Pneuma in Greek also was used typically to describe the spirit or soul – breath from one from which all things started. Interesting concepts that yielded to very creative art and thought.
Inoperative Giants
Giants from the past in Boston Harbor
Before the arrival of English and European settlers. Local Native Americans fished and planted crops along the coasts of the 30 or so Islands that dot the Harbor. In the early 1600’s the Massachusetts Bay Company, a small band of Puritans led by John Winthrop, landed and began settling the area, clearing land for livestock and firewood. Boston Harbor quickly became a busy trading port. By 1660 almost all English imports to New England came through these waters. As a British colony, Boston began to grow in size, laying the scene for the beginnings of the American Revolution one hundred years later.
During World War II the Harbor’s entrance was guarded with mines and an underwater torpedo net.
The cranes most likely were updated versions or original chasis from the Fore River Shipyard that settled further down the harbor near the war.
The Fore River Shipyard, more formally known as the Fore River Ship and Engine Building Company, was a shipyard in the United States from 1883 until 1986. Located on the Weymouth Fore River, the yard began operations in 1883 in Braintree, Massachusetts before being moved downstream to its permanent location in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1901. The shipyard helped build early U.S. submarines and many ships commissioned by the United States Navy, including the World War II battleship USS Massachusetts (BB-59) and aircraft carriers USS Wasp (CV-7) and USS Bunker Hill (CV-17). In the 1960s, the yard was purchased by General Dynamics. It continued to produce ships for the Navy until being converted to LNG tanker production before finally closing in 1986.
The yard built the Thomas W. Lawson, the largest pure sailing ship ever built and ARA Rivadavia, one of two foreign battleships built in the United States. It was home to the “Goliath” crane, for a time the second-largest shipbuilding crane in the world. - via wikipedia
Quarters Only
Only your quarters can save this Kiddie ride. Only this ride can disrupt a conversation on this phone. Shadows came and stole the laughter.
Bridges exist for a reason
Sometimes they should be used, and sometimes they should be burned figuratively speaking
by Dave
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