He's Got A Truck?!

The only cars I've owned in my adult life have been inherited ones.  Until...this summer at the age of 57 after the car I inherited from my mother went kaput (transmission needs rebuilding), I bought my first vehicle.  The photo was taken on August 6th in David Matthews' back yard, after he took me over to Malvern to pick up the, um, pickup. 

Cemetery, Bayou Bartholomew, Farm 2012

Summer and Fall 2012

 Crows on a light pole at the Pine Bluff Civic Center, 10th Ave and Convention Center Drive.  I didn't have time to hang around and see what happened once there were three crows on the pole.

Dr. Matthewski fishing on the bank of the Arkansas River near Pine Bluff, beneath the "new Free Bridge" that opened in 1972.  In 1974, when I lived in a cabin near the bridge, I discovered it was possible to climb over a locked metal-grate door under the bridge on the north side of the river, and gain access to the catwalk that goes all the way across the under-side of the bridge.  Ladders lead from the catwalk down to the white piers.  

 

 

1.Vibrating spider and web at the farm.  2.
Sunset at farm, showing treeline between two fields where my "treehouse" is.  3.
Jessie on the floor and my foot in front bedroom at my house on 12th Ave.

Kate, Flower, Bun-Bun

I thought I'd lost these 1990s photos of three pets owned by some friends of mine in Austin, but I ran up on them recently, so to speak, and was glad to find them.  Now I still need to find my photo of Sparky.

South Carolina Confederate Flag 2000 photos

Other photos and my unpublished article about the Confederate Battle Flag coming down from the top of the State House dome in Columbia, South Carolina, on July 1st 2000 (while another Confederate flag went up for the first time in a different place on the State House grounds) can be found by clicking here.

Ever seen a coke machine outside a house?

Okay, here are some modern photos taken in the last seven years.  Trulock Park is on the Arkansas River below Pine Bluff.  My Trulock ancestors lived in this area from 1845 until I'm not sure when.  The matriarch, my great-great-great grandmother Amanda Beardsley Trulock, ran the plantation from the time her husband James Hines Trulock died in December 1849 until she returned to her native city of Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1866.  What I don't know is how long the land belonged to her heirs after she died in 1891, or if it was even in the family that long.  Trulock Park has covered picnic tables and a boat launching ramp, but was closed down when I took this photo.  It reopened for a while, and now is closed again due to a decrease of funding for the US Army Corps of Engineers.  (Summer 2012:  It may be open again, at least for the summer.)

David Motel is in Shreveport.  Photo from August 2004. 

House with Dr. Pepper Machine is in Malvern, Arkansas, or was when I took the photo sometime in this century.

Dogs in the Puegeot with the Volvo nearby are in the parking lot at Wheatsville Food Co-op in Austin, Texas.  Circa 2005.

Hi, lonesome

Howarey'all?  Good I hope, and well, too.  Lonesome ain't so bad most of the time.

What we have above is Congress Avenue and Riverside Drive, Austin '92 or early '93.

And here, below, my right hand focusing the Radio Shack stylus inspection magnifier (used to check the condition of the "needle" on a turntable) on a page of Ian Lawrie's excellent book, A Unified Grand Tour of Theoretical Physics, copyright 1991. This is also a late '92 or early '93 photo, taken at my desk in my garage apartment that was on the lower level of a split-level house at 1021 Bonham Terrace in Austin. Very nice place. Small, with just one room and a kitchen, but just what I required at the time. It faced (I hope still faces) Kenwood Road and the greenbelt area across the road. Once a big python or similar snake crossed the road from the greenbelt, with bluejays harrassing it all the way. I didn't know for sure it wasn't some kind of poisonous snake so I left it alone. The only problem was, it then went into the basement door of 1021 Bonham Terrace, the door right next to my apartment. I was a bit worried about it, and made some calls, but to no avail. A married couple lived above me and owned the house. I told the guy about it, and we went in the basement together. Didn't find the snake. He told me not to tell his wife about the snake. I didn't. Everybody didn't live happily ever after, but it wasn't the snake's fault.



Late 1992 and early 1993: Austin and Pine Bluff

A store called Flipnotics on Barton Springs Road

And a flipnotized looking person. Bonham Terrace apt.

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4006 Cherry Street Pine Bluff

 Commodore II, Austin

         Kenwood Road Cat, Austin.

Can't Recall at the Moment Where This Was Taken

November '92 R Street to Jean Bart

Jeff's 40th birthday cake.

Betty and Jeff.  I never did get a flash attachment for the Pentax K-1000, and the light meter quit working soon after I bought it. 

All three above are at Jeff's house on R Street in Little Rock.  Next, some scenes from my trip to Paris later in November '92 (I was there on Thanksgiving).

In my room at the Hotel Jean Bart...

...and under a bridge over the Seine (no, not my artwork).

DWT, gecko, N.B. & pumpkin, cat '92

Of course, a new camera means attempted self-portraits...

and nature photos...

and funny photos, this being my brother Jeff's home at the time in Little Rock.  His 40th birthday, just after Halloween and just before Bill Clinton was elected president the first time...

and of course a local (Travis Heights, Austin) cat's photo.

Garage apartment Bonham Terrace, Austin 1992

Skyline: and lady, purse & dog, Austin 1992

I bought a used Pentax K-1000 in 1992.  I'm posting some of the photos I took with that camera.