These are Wooly Bear caterpillars (or are they?) from my backyard, three of four I found last Saturday as I mowed my lawn for what I hope is the last time this year. I’d found one the previous week, but I just let him go in a safe place. I had different plans for these guys, especially since I hadn’t started mowing where I found them and didn’t want to puree them.
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This photo is probably twenty years “in the making”, as they say. I first heard about this bus – at the time, I didn’t know if it was a bus, a van, or a truck – many years ago. A friend told me its story: In the late 1960s, around the time I was born, my friend was a young boy working at his uncle’s concession stand aside a rural North Dakota lake. He saw some hippies driving around the other side of the lake in a bus they’d converted into a rudimentary camper. The bus stalled, and they tinkered with it for quite some time before abandoning it forever.
The bus has since occupied that field, not very far from Bismarck-Mandan, for over half a decade. I knew I had to investigate. My friend has since purchased a significant portion of the land surrounding that lake, so he told me how to hike out to the area on his private land.
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I don’t actually even remember why I was here – oh yeah, I was chasing some pretty incredible photo spots I will post in the future, then I got caught in a monster storm along Highway 3, and then I spotted this as I meandered home after the storm. All in all, a good afternoon.
I love trucks. I love rainbows. Who says we can’t have both?
One part of this event which deserves mention is the public safety team. For instance, this is what was preventing someone from going all “allahu akbar” on one Bismarck-Mandan’s biggest events.
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My goodness, this truck exudes perfection. So beautiful with its hood up… I found myself drawn in to stare at a few vehicles with their hoods in the air.
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If you’re driving by the AASF today, you may have noticed out of the corner of your eye that something seems a little off with the Huey on display at the entrance. You’d be right.
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Can it really get any more gnarly than this? What a fantastic machine. I don’t mean to read like “old man yelling at cloud”, but they really don’t make anything like this anymore. Wowza. And there’s more…
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Let’s get right to it: This thing has got the kind of lines a guy could think about when the lights go out and the head hits the pillow for the night. Absolute beauty. There isn’t a single thing about this Malibu that doesn’t ooze perfection.
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Yes, I attended Buggies ‘n’ Blues. No, I haven’t posted the photos yet. I’ve been incredibly busy with work, family stuff, and freelance as well. I’m finally getting around to posting my favorites though, and it’s not all trucks this time! Hopefully I kept it about 50-50.
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A barn and an old well? That’s all I need for a fine photo. I love the brick chimney on the building, the angle of the handle of the well, the whole works. This was a nice find, and a bit of a surprise, actually. But then again, so many of my photos are the result of a “section line surprise” that it’s almost the norm!