A change in the weather

Highway pirate

Getting on the road...

...traveling in a westerly direction to reach an eastern destination, reports as things unfold.

Retro Boss Hog

Happy Thanksgiving

Mopar in transit

This image was captured yesterday on Interstate 75 in Ohio.  The quick story is that the 1970 T/A Challenger and the 1970 AAR Cuda had been stored in Florida for many years and the owner was taking them back to his home in Toronto.  Road trip !!!

Street art in 3 dimensions

Artur Bordalo is a Portuguese artist that uses mixed media with lots of found objects to create a variety of three dimensional street art.  View more of his efforts here.

Afternoon commute

Find my car

Grilling out

Honister Hill Climb

One of England's steepest roads is near the Honister Slate Mine in Cumbria.  An event called the Lakeland Hill Climb is held there.  Images from the 2013 event are here.

Brahmin moth

Before and after metamorphosis

Pretty in pink

Young lad and his pony

Waste power

Wessex Water is a regional water and sewage service in the southwest of England. They recently launched a bus that is fueled on human waste. They proudly boast of the fuel source via graphic depiction on the side of the vehicle.

Undercover turtle

Poser

Stand up and be counted

Out there

Against the wind

Uncategorized

Downhill racer

Coming to a beach near you

Melding of styles

The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada

Paint my house

A couple of artists bought this 1840's farm house in High Falls, New York, and decided that it needed brightening up to reveal its true charm.

Click here to see the results of their efforts.

Veterans' Day, thanks to those who served

Freedom is not free.

Dirty art

                                              Thanks to Agent Bill for bringing this to my attention

Edmund Fitzgerald

On November 10th, 1975, the Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald with a crew of 29 sank on Lake Superior.  There were no survivors..

Read more about the SS Edmund Fitzgerald here.

Wooden electric

Liu Fulong takes his homemade wooden electric car for a drive in Shenyang, China. The car weighs about 450 lbs and has a top speed of 20 mph.  The car will travel 12 miles between charges.

Somewhere in the Scottish Highlands

Getting down with a Yaybahar

While it may not be the music you prefer there is no denying that it is an unusual sound.  It is an acoustic instrument whose sound was not amplified nor was there any post video processing.  The vibrations from the strings are transmitted via coiled springs to the frame drums which then echo back and forth on the coiled springs.

This is how we do it

Gravity can pack a punch

Indian three wheeler

These will be on the quiz

Grounded

Crusoe is a Dachshund with a fantasy of flight, but it appears he is only able to taxi.

Saab Monster

Before moving on to a V4 engine (late 60's) to power their Model 95 and 96 cars Saab used a three cylinder two cycle engine.  In 1959 in an effort to find more power they experimented with a modified Model 93 equipped with a six cylinder.

Saab joined two highly tuned three cylinder engines at the crankshaft and mounted the combo transversely in a widened engine bay.  The result was 138HP and 122mph.  The aerodynamic teardrop shape of the car was originally chosen due to its handling characteristics and fuel economy. However, as this car approached it top speed the teardrop shape had a tendency to become airborne. It also suffered from heavy understeer as well as torquesteer.  All of these characteristics lead the car to become known as the Monster for those who experienced its behavior from behind the wheel.

Underwater

Underwater photographer Elana Kalis posed her daughter, Sacha, for a series of underwater photos that produced striking images.  See more of this session here, while more of Elana's work can be seen at her website, http://www.elenakalisphoto.com/.

Norway

Skating on thin ice

Time out is called in a 1959 Swedish hockey game.

Green space

A crocodile lounges in a pool of algae at the Phuket Zoo in Thailand.

Pick up car

Hoover street machines