Wordless Wednesday - Soaring Sunrise

An early winter morning's sunrise is always a treat...2 January 1981, about 6:45 AM over North Carolina on a Delta 727, flight 674...

cold day, warm sunrise! See Create w/Joy

Shadow Shot Sunday - Surf + Sun + Sand = Shadow

I take a glimpse of the waves on the Atlantic in my walking days...01/01/1981

The Intercoastal Waterway

The subtle reflection in the tidal sands

Shadow Shot Sunday 2 returns on a sunny Spring Saturday today up north, warmth arriving after the conclusion of a snowy and cold winter. However, one can avoid the cold of winter by traveling to the Sunshine State of Florida where a cold day is not all that cold to the snowbirds who visit, as I did in 1980. Recently, I located quite a few film prints, and re-scanned them last week. Granted the primitive Canon 50mm I used back, and given the age and lack of proper storage of said prints, the quality of the scans is so-so. But good enough to rekindle fun memories of a fun trip...

Shadow Shot Sunday - Sequential

Seq.1 - Menu

Seq. 2 - Apéritif

Seq. 3 - Accompaniment

Shadow Shot Sunday returns again to the past, and of restaurant meal treats from Sage of Steubenville Grandpa. When he visited the family in Connecticut, we would all go to the old Marco Polo in East Hartford. As the photo gatherer in these situations, he did like to have a sequence of photos as a memory. Family siblings might remember that: 1) Holding up the menu; 2) Holding up his beer bottle (either Miller High Life or Miller Lite); 3) Holding up the wine bottle (always). Item 1 was usually taken by the waitstaff, the others by my father, conspicuously absent...always fun when he treated!

SOOC - Sun, surf and sand

Surf casters, Atlantic Ocean, Jensen Beach Florida, 1 Jan 1981

SOOC - Straight Out of the Camera - takes me back again to the world of film...and the sunny surf of Florida in the wintertime. The time is New Year's Day 1981 in Jensen Beach. The surf casting fishermen are enjoying the 71ºF (22ºC) southern warmth. This view was a stark contrast to the next morning's flight arrival in Hartford where 2 inches (5 cm) cm of snow had fallen the night before and the temp was a cold 16ºF (-9ºC). Stark indeed, the Canon 50mm rangefinder creating a view of relaxing in the warmth...

Shadow Shot Sunday - Scanned Sunset Shadows

Shadow Shot Sunday returns...the fun of scanning old prints is in the memories, yet do I remember the event? Here in a shadowy sort of, I think I recall the what, where and when of this view. The place is in the passenger seat of a Subaru GL hardtop, the place on Interstate 90, Massachusetts Turnpike between Boston and Worcester, the time late in 1981 or early 1982. Either year, it would have been taken with a Canon 50mm rangefinder and most likely a roll of Kodak ASA100 film. Given all that, the sun just falling over the treeline is dramatic and the hint of shadow falls across the westbound lanes of asphalt as the sun sets. Although my exact memory is not so clear, the barely edited print itself is in reasonably good shape...see more shadowy views from any era at the always fun SSS2

Whimsical Windows - If vertigo is present, don't look down...

IDS Building, Minneapolis, MN;  August 1981

Toby hosts the fun architectural meme Whimsical Windows/Delirious Doors where we look for portals and other architectural items of interest. 


This is taken from a scanned print taken in 1981 at the IDS building in Minneapolis - the view looking down from the the top floor, 51 stories up from the street.* 


Perhaps there are taller buildings 30+ years later in the Twin Cities - but this was the tallest I've been up from the ground before or since...


*I was walking in those days, but would not likely go that high in a wheelchair these days with fewer options for egress - so I am happy to have been able to make such an ascent at the time!

Tina's Pic Story - Mountains

Tina provides us with her fun meme Pic Story. The idea is easy - we provide the photos to match the theme she supplies, which this week is Mountains. These old prints from the 1980s have been scanned and edited as they have faded somewhat - if not my memories...

The first was taken in October 1981, and is of Mount Monadnock near Jaffrey in southern New Hampshire. It is 3,165 feet (965 M) in height and is the tallest peak between the Berkshires in Massachusetts and Vermont and the White Mountains in northern New Hampshire...

The next was taken in August 1984 and is an unknown peak situated between Denver and Colorado Springs, and was taken on the shoulder of the I-25 highway. Until I visited Colorado, I was under the impression that the state was more mountainous than not, but the major cities are at the western edge of the Great Plains. I don't know what the name of this peak is, bud guess that is is around 12,000 ft (2660 M) - if not taller. I like this week's theme as I like visiting places from the past...