Peter Behrens's Blog, page 508

Chicago Dodge 200 Power Wagon

...these from David Ross, creator of Le Phare, and now in Chicago:

Chicago Dodge 200

...these from David Ross, creator of Le Phare, and now in Chicago:

Fathers Series: "Cup of Tea" (from TRAVELLING LIGHT)

This piece, "Cup of Tea", from Travelling Light was published in the Globe & Mail ("Canada's National Newspaper")
CUP OF TEA"The river is frozen, I can see that. As the airplane taxis to the terminal, I notice a pack of wolves frolicking on the runway, animals down from the north, famished. Welcome to Montreal, ferocious town. Welcome home. I am in from foreign parts, and it is the third week of January. They said that my father is dying, that I must come quickly. But I hate winter..."

Read the story here  
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Edge of the Llano Estacado, New Mexico

Coming down off the huge mesa that is the Llano Estacado, between Grady NM and San Jon NM

Banff Bronco 1967 / Rude Girls

                                                               all  photos ©2013 Susan Richardson 

Bill Burleson: Streets of Santa Fe Series

Santa Fe Car Wash Santa Fe City Bus Santa Fe Mexican Import Storeall images ©2013 JW Burleson

1951 Chevrolet 'Advanced Design' 5-Window Truck, Colorado Springs

Lots more A-D trucks on Autoliterate. Here, for example. And here.

East Bijou Avenue, Colorado Springs

What is there to say about the strange landscape of the urban Mountain West that doesn't sound ironic or dismissive? John Brinckerhoff Jackson wrote  about it well, a generation ago. The problems and the systemic dysfunctions have metastasized since then. One symptom is traffic, and the amount of time a person needs to spend in a car to get to work or to accomplish any sort of task in a city like Colorado Springs. A section of the U.S. that might have benefited from what we have learned about urban planning over the last fifty years is politically, culturally, and temperamentally conditioned to rile at any mention of the the word 'plan'.  So what they get is a mess,  with all important decisions about the way people live their daily lives left up to the real estate industry. Why do Americans allow the real estate industry to shape, in the most basic sense, the way they live now? I rode out along E. Bijou on my bike, which felt a bit dangerous. Traffic moves very fast there probably because there are few places to stop. It is a worn-out part of town: strip malls and commercial buildings from the 50s-60s-70s. The newer and more "glamorous", if that is the word--or perhaps more 'branded'--sprawl happens further and further out to the north and east. Kind of like tree rings, except the inner rings of the community, with exceptions, seem to wither and die. They don't stay part of the organic whole. I met some great people on E. Bijou when I stopped to admire old trucks and cars. The late September sky was stunning, it shone like hard blue metal. To the West, the peaks of the front range were showing a dust of snow.

Schooners on Eggemoggin Reach

Nearly the end of sailing season. There will be many perfect days between now and Thanksgiving, but mixed in will be days when it's blowing NW at 20/25/30 knots and everything's rocking in Center Harbor. On  the downeast coast, leaving a boat in the water past early October--especially in a relatively unprotected anchorage like C.H.---means some sleepless nights. So it's time to haul. Which will happen this week: Scout will be hauled at Sedgwick Town Landing, on the Benjamin River, and stored at Bill Grant's for the winter. But I hope to get a few more hours in; or at least one good sail from Center Harbor to the Benjamin River.
One of the delights of sailing in our part of the Maine coast is meeting the schooner fleet in their natural environment. These photos are from the last couple of afternoons I was out on the Reach, late September.
                                               Lewis R. French.. or  Grace Bailey? Victory Chimes? Reaching, on the Reach Heritage. Sailed on her. Lewis R French I think this is Victory Chimes Deer Isle Bridge to the NW Heritage, again.

Brooklyn International Harvester Scout

"Found this gem in Brooklyn last time i was there… almost TOO pretty I know, but how can you resist?"--David Ross
Saw an older Scout in Colorado last month.