Photos and
fun stuff
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Here's a hodge-podge of old photos taken by me, of me, or by someone else of something else: Old friends, old places, current parents, pets, maybe an automobile, some pretty good drummers, odd moments, random objects. Maybe I'll add more... maybe not. If you have some pictures that you'd like to add to this online "scrap book" let me know.
Old, abandoned
Navajo shelter on a reservation in New Mexico. The door was
light blue.
There was some junk strewn about. Taken in Aug, 2000 on
T-MAX-100.
Family, ani-mules, and automobiles:
Dad on a sled in the mid(?)-1970's. One of my all time favorite pictures.... and one of my all time favorite people.
Me, mom, and Lauren "We smiles good."
Angela experiments with the "self-portrait" feature of our digital camera.
At least 14 more tries later... this is the keeper!
The old band... (click for more pics and tunes).
Moxie the dog. Yeah, she's kinda cute.....
Although just a puppy, Moxie has no trouble driving home the over-partied party-goers from kid sister's.
Oscar the
cat. His hobbies include eating household objects and then
having them surgically removed... No, really.
Our actualistic studies demonstrate that the old man in the Nissan commercials was way off: Trucks?? We think not. Truth is "Dogs love Volvo wagons!" Buddy waiting for a ride above, Henry enjoying one below.
"Oh Toonces,
where art thou?"
I imagine he's wearing a wooly watch cap on a fishing boat in the
north Atlantic: a hearty job for a hearty cat.
Knowing how to best catch my attention, Ben poses with a set of European Volvo headlamps.
"My Heros...."
Toby asleep on my
foot...
The no longer "new-to-me",
but still very dear-to-me 1990 Volvo 245... 5-spd manual
transmission... a mighty 114hp engine.... European E-code headlamps, GT Sway bars, body designed in the 1960's (the doors are
actually *interchangeable* with a 1968 Volvo 140/160), rolled off of the assembly line when I started the 8th-grade, gets
better than 30mpg (despite having 133k miles and 18 years of age
on her), and still is one of the safest cars on the road. All that, and she's still pretty sexy to boot.
Proof: here and here. Fun Volvo stuff: here
The family has since grown: The black 1991 745 (295k miles), and the red 1987 245 (314k miles) .
At the 2007 VCOA East Coast meet in Carlisle.....
The night before leaving for Carlisle.....
Showing off my spiffy new workin' pants....
Not only do they race these things in Europe, but they've also been used as police cars in Sweden and England, and demolition derbies in North America have specifically excluded Volvo's, since they refuse to die. A gentleman in western Canada won five separate derbies... with the *same* car!
Pretty
good drummers:
Elvin Jones. What else can be said?
Mitch Mitchell.
The Dirty Mac!!
The 20 minute 1968 supergroup featuring:
Eric Clapton: Guitar
John Lennon: Guitar and Vocals
Mitch Mitchell: Drums
Keith Richards: Bass
They're on YouTube Somewhere
Joe Morello.
Ummm... there are absurdities.... and then there's The Grateful Dead.
Working on CT data
of ankylosaurs (above), and (below) with radiology technician
extraordinaire, Heather Mayle, and the dinosaur formerly known as Majungatholus (now Majungasaurus) during my furry hippie days.
Me n' the wookie....er, uhhh.... Moxie
"Out west" type stuff:
How can you not have fun driving through Colorado and Montana with good friends?
"Java in natural scale"
The mouse! The tricky, elusive Montana mouse who made his/her presence well known, and evaded capture for two weeks... only to catch him/herself in the waste basket. The power was out. The night was dark and stormy: far too dark and stormy to cast the mouse out into the wind and rain, so we threw him some peanut butter (crunchy) to hold him until morning.
Reactivation
surface in the Morrison Fm. (Jurassic) of Wyoming. Current
flowed from right to left. These happen when something
steps into, or disturbs, the mud before it's
"rockified" (in this case, possibly a dinosaur into a
shallow, fast moving stream - noted by the thin horizontal
laminations), and then more sediment is laid down to fill the
"hole".
Don't ask, don't
tell.
That's not me, and it is *not* a 1,500lb Triceratops skull
being repositioned in the trailer
by strapping it to a lamp post and inching the truck away.
Assaulting a blob
of plaster with rudimentary aluminum foil
Field work in
Montana is pleasant because of the low humidity and abundance of
vegetation. Plus, how can you not love the drab greenish
grey paleosols?
The short-lived kindred spirit, known only as "Desiccation Man"**, oversees the excavation of a dinosaur vertebra. He was formed by loving hands out of latest Cretaceous mud, only to rapidly dry out and return to the earth that made him...
A picture of a rock hammer. Notice the dinosaur rib for scale.
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**Not "Defecation Man" as my Mom misread...