Author Archive

March 26, 2020

Video 2

Lagoon Lowp

Another short film taken yesterday along Forest Way Drive that skirts they Skokie Lagoons.

March 25, 2020

Fresh Air and Quiet Roads

Ravine Run

– short video of a ride through one of the north shores winding dells.

March 24, 2020

Four Score & Ten

Match your Mini

– Cool guy Steve McQueen would have been ninety today. he even makes a brown cardigan look hip: the ideal garb for a coffee ‘n’ cream Cooper.

March 23, 2020

A Room with a View

Parquet Party

– greenery in oils on the walls, wainscoting curtains the walls and an angry red alligator grins on. Gravel trail tool sitting under the daylight beaming through a window. It’s like a cover of Architectural Digest.

March 22, 2020

Room & Board

Home Decor

– we’re heading into the first week of stay-at-home so let’s enjoy some more examples of storage of motorcycles in living quarters. What we need is a cool city hipster loft with separate ‘man-shed’ floor.

March 21, 2020

Home

‘Er indoors

– first official day of stay-in-home. Sorting out the interior spaces and corners of the house so we don’t get cabin fever. The bikes of course have their own home, but it would be nice to allow one to stay with us. But I’m afraid that won’t be met with a favorable outcome here.

March 20, 2020

Van Life

Stay-at-Home

– today Illinois called for its population to undertake the more severe form of social distancing by keeping indoors… well here’s one solution.

March 18, 2020

Mirror Mirror

Reflections…

Photography is like a mirror looking rearward. A view of where you’ve just come from. A recollection or memory of the road previously travelled with experiences to allow the way ahead to be navigated.

March 17, 2020

Gnomon

Evening Shadow

– I needed to partake is some social distancing after work. So with the sun setting across the Skokie Lagoons I had a spirited run up north. I just love that Tiger!

March 16, 2020

Woof!

Canis minor

Goggle’d pup ready to roll.

March 15, 2020

Start ‘em young!

Goldie Kid

Slicked back hair, Raybans, leather jacket and turnip’d jeans. The BSA Gokdstar is just for effect. Smaht!

March 14, 2020

Rebellious

Jim Stark

– television is a suitable pastime in this day of social separation. Cruising the channels I happened upon Jimmy Deans classic film from 1955. “You’re tearing me apart!” .

March 13, 2020

On Ilkley Moor

Interwar Years – Three women having a picnic during a road test of a Triumph Scorpion, 1931
March 12, 2020

Art Deco

Poster

– imagery by Italian graphic designer, and latter Olivetti chief designer, Marcelo Nizzoli from 1925 for Fabrique National F/N – Belgian arms manufacturers who also built motorcycles. A smooth ride indeed if the pillion lady can put on her lipstick whilst the shadowy rider tears along the lanes of Flanders

March 11, 2020

Don’t Panic

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?

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