Taking A Bath

Just got back from a summer vacation trip. Visit family, do some chores, ride bike, take a few photos, etc.

Weather was all over the place. From beastly hot and humid to stormy to almost cool. Typical northern plains summer weather.

Took my old (like 30 yrs old) mountain bike to do some riding with my brother. My trip could be divided up into 4 major legs. And on every leg of the trip, I got rained on quite extensively. As my bike was in the bed of my pickup, it got to take a bath. Four times! I covered the seat once, and took it off once. Because I just knew it was going to get soaked. Again. And it did!

Clouds, rain, rain, clouds. But, the clouds were pretty cool looking!

A change of pace. A shot of fire! Helping dad burn piles of old tree limbs and yard debris. Something he occupies a lot of his summer time with.

Here's OB (Old Blue - my brother's old Trek MTB) and ROB (Really Old Blue - my 30 yr old Supergo MTB. The one that got plenty of free washes this trip) back at Urtle Tate for some trail riding. Discovered that there are several new recently finished trails, along with some others still being put in. Very nice!

And on my way back home, more clouds, more rain! Pretty good trip overall though, had a good visit.

Shine AND Sparkle

Welcome to July 4th. Happy Birthday America! Time for fireworks!

As mentioned in the previous post, I was planning to go to a car show. Which I did! I almost didn't find it. Was nowhere to be found in the park, but it was in the fairgrounds area I noticed as I was about to leave. Warm day, but with some clouds on the horizon.

There was an assortment of all kinds of cars. Classics, hot rods, modern, trucks, old cars. Mostly all American, but what's this?

A couple Italians at the show! A Ferrari and a Lamborghini. Must be nice to have that kind of disposable income.

Since it's July 4th, and this is the USA, the rest of these are all American! As in American Motors!

Detail shot of a very nice 1970 AMX. Some Red, White and Blue in the circle. I have a full shot of this car from a older Superday post on here.

Another 1970 AMC, this one the Red White and Blue version of the Rebel Machine. Also featured on a previous blog post.

A sort of - an old Willys wagon, that would later become Jeep. This one was in pretty decent shape, was Red and White. It appeared to have a pretty recent but not very good paint job. Kinda runny. I fixed that and then made it black and white - my DHCBWOCHO for this show!

But, enough of the 'shine', time for the 'sparkle'!

Had a pretty strong thunderstorm and rain in the early evening. But then it cleared out and dried up, and the fireworks were on!

A pretty evenly matched set of bursts. Nicely balanced.

A couple little starbursts, surrounded by some big sparkles.

A bit busier with multiple bursts here.

Last shot, with multiple fireworks. I like the blue kind of foggy streaks in the center.

Took all the car shots with the new K-01 camera, fireworks were half the new camera, half the old camera. We're definitely into summer now!