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  • 2008
    • July
      • Fields of gold, and going nowhere fast
        07/22/08
        I took the opportunity to leather up and stretch the big Suzuki's legs Sunday afternoon, of course with twenty-some pounds of camera gear strapped to my back. I'm a daddy of two now, so I have to learn to consolidate my hobbies if I want to get time to do them. If I could just find a way

      • So I suppose you were wondering why they closed River Road...
        07/21/08

        No, I had nothing to do with it! There I was, minding my own business, driving down River Road on my way home...when I found two of Bismarck's finest blocking the road. Being the curious sort, I hopped out and asked what was going on. They gave me permission to go poke around...who cou

      • Friends and Family Day at the NGPRL
        07/20/08

        Last Thursday I was able to take my family to the Friends and Family Day at the Northern Great Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory south of Mandan. As a kid growing up south of Mandan, I remember occasionally riding my bike toward town and visiting the facility. The people we talked to w

      • If I had a boat
        07/19/08

        "If I had a boat, I'd go out on the ocean...and if I had a pony, I'd ride him on my boat..."

        For the music reference title of this post I picked a Lyle Lovett song, but I'll always think of it as a JPL song, since my favorite version of it is done by my pals

      • New feature added! And a reminder of an old one
        07/16/08
        If you noticed the site loaded a little slowly this week, it's because I animated the top banner. Doing so involved a little bit of Javascript and Flash, and that stuff has to load the first time you visit the page. Once you've visited this site with the new header, it should load quickl

      • The funniest historical marker I've ever seen in Bismarck-Mandan
        07/15/08

        While heading down to the Burnt Creek dock with my boys, I took the scenic route down Sandy River Drive. It's one of my favorite roads because it's narrow, straight, canopied by trees, and I have several friends who live along it. Just before I headed north to the boat dock, howeve

      • After only a week or so....July 4th photos posted
        07/14/08

        This year brought something different for our family on Independence Day. I was hired to take photos for Cycle Hutt, our church didn't do a float this year because of our new building project, and my wife and I thought it better to keep the two little boys at home on the hot afternoon.

      • Any landing you can walk away from...
        07/13/08

        One of my mountain biking buddies and I were comparing photos a couple of weeks ago and I found this gem in his collection. He gave me permission to share it with y'all, so I thought I would take the opportunity to do so. The tractor above was mowing near the sagging walls on a hill alo

      • Very serious, very fundamental defect spotted on the new Liberty Memorial Bridge
        07/10/08

        Take a look. Do you see it? I saw it right away after the bridge caught my eye. I was driving west on Memorial Highway, on my way to Mandan when I spotted it. I suppose it's because they have removed a lot of the construction materials from the bridge as it nears completion. Do you s

      • This only happens twice a year
        07/08/08

        My friend Pat gave me the heads up this week: for one night only, when viewed from his front porch, the silhouette of the capitol building appears centered on the sun. That night was tonight. Even though I had to stretch the limits of my longest telephoto lens from his house southeast of tow

      • One of the coolest things I saw all weekend, because I'm a geek
        07/06/08

        I took too many photos this holiday weekend to sort out right now...about 1,800 of them, in fact. Why? Two reasons: first, I love cameras and motorcycles. Second, I was getting paid to. Gotta pay off this camera gear some day. Until I get the rest of my holiday photos sorted out, here

      • How much courage does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
        07/06/08

        These guys are hanging the lighting beneath the new Liberty Memorial Bridge. Rather then try to do it from below, which would be pretty tricky in most spots, they got themselves a contortionist truck and went over the side. Better them than me.

        I don't care much for scaffolds

      • Howdy, ma'am...
        07/03/08

        Some call it a brakestand, some call it an endo, but it could simply be called entertainment. Or talent, as Jason Britton is in town. He's hanging out with the folks at Cycle Hutt over the 4th, giving tips to riders and performing Saturday at 1:30pm in Cycle Hutt's giant lot on the

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