motorcycle, stories

Holy crap.

I can’t remember the last time I said or wrote that, and I am so serious about it I’ll say it again. Holy crap..so much fun :D

Pertinent facts:

’82 Suzuki 750
3 highways
one awesome motorcycle shop along the side of one of the 3 highways
a (much needed) pair of earplugs, a (also much needed) twinkie and bike talk with  the two resident motorheads at the above mentioned shop
one quart of oil (which I didn’t know I very badly needed until I was pulling out of the above mentioned shop and the oil light flickered twice; I almost ignored it, too. That would’ve been really, really really dumb)
hundreds of miles
sun-warmed post-rainstorm air that smelled fresh and honey-sweet during  a stretch of highway through fields and woods
a cup of coffee and a strawberry bear claw on the way home, from a great small town bakery with an awesome  “won’t close till the pastries are pretty much gone” policy

“Just along down the way, there is a place where no plow blade has turned the ground”
-40 Acres, by Caedmon’s Call

On that note, only very tangentially related, here’s a cool picture:

no photoshop, polaroid circa 1970's on top of an envelope circa 1980's
photography

Ilford XP2 Super. I like this film a lot, but it just doesn’t have the nice grain and tone of the HP5+.

All except for the beer-and-chips shot are from a day a few weeks ago when we spent the summer day helping Alicia get started painting her and Jon’s house (while Jon was on a business trip in Alaska–surprise Jon!). Don’t get me wrong, we did stay well nourished and hydrated while painting. A watermelon fight also took place, but I didn’t get any pictures of it; turns out it’s difficult to get good action portraits while dodging flying pieces of watermelon.

Brandin on the roof, but is he aloof?
paint scrapers sunbathing while the paint-scrapers were chilling
Trixie wondering why I'm holding that funny thing and telling her to sit instead of playing with her
Mailbox shot #1
Mailbox shot #2
Rainier and Tim's Cascade, yes the Northwest is in my blood (and was even more so after this great post-workout snack, I might add)