C4 C5 C6

These CRT's (Crash Rescue Trucks) used to run the runways at Hill Air Force Base in Layton, Utah, back in the mid-eighties. I don't really know much about CRT's so I'm not going to fluff my way through this post. I used to watch them fly by from my office on the taxiway. From what I can remember the driver sat in the middle of the front seat and there was a turret mounted on the roof for driving right up on a fire. They all look like they may be Oshkosh's with C4 being an older one.

Dreaming of Elk

Plans are underway for another return trip to the high country this fall, all I have to do is get this spring and summer out of the way. In the mean time here are some trips from the past. The first is from 1989 and this spike bull ran between my brother & brother-in-law and me. I took a half dozen shots as he ran by, in some you could see them in the background. I liked how this cloud lined up with him. The second was from 1990 and only about 300 yards from where the spike ran by me. From this set up I saw cows and calves all day, but no bulls within a half mile. This cow was only 30 yards downhill. Just 8 months and counting.

We Will Not Forget (PG L)

PG L, that just sounds weird. Painted Gentleman 50 is on the side of a store in downtown Chambersburg, PA, just off Memorial Square. As a kid I would go here to get stuff to make model cars, at that time it was Uptown Sales. More recently it was C's Sportsman's Warehouse. Now it has become, like much of downtown Chambersburg, Los Reyes Mexican Store. Very nice painting, very nice message. It faces what used to be "Recruiter's Row", That's were I did my thing. Now even the recruiter's have moved out, moved to the mall. Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes.

The Seahawk

The Seahawk sits in the Chincoteague Bay very near to where the new causeway and bridge will join with the Island, near Main Street and Maddox Boulevard. It kinda has a feeling of the Barnacle, from the John Candy movie "Summer Rental". Maybe I should have checked for the old Captain and the oriental chef and his freezer full of fish sticks. The Seahawk sits next to the now defunct Landmark Crabhouse Restaurant, I'm not sure if it ever was part of the restaurant or just there for atmosphere.

This Do In Remembrance of Me (Night Services 5)

Last night I noticed a light on, moving quickly and silently I stood on the sidewalk with my tripod and snapped a few window shots. This is the Grace United Church of Christ on the intersection of East Orange Street and South Prince Street in Shippensburg. This window I had never noticed lit up before, I think because it sits on the side street not along the frontage street. It is, of course, Da Vinci's Last Supper. Again I mirrored the image so you can read it and see it the way it was intended to be seen. My other problem with all of these is leveling the camera in the dark, I often need to rotate 2 or 3 degrees to straighten the image. It didn't help that Prince Street sits on a downhill slope.

No Swimming

This is the Long Pine Run Reservoir in the Michaux State Forest, Adams County, PA. Long Pine sits near the intersection of Birch Run Road and Milesburn Roads, both dirt mountain roads, and is part of Chambersburg's water supply. This time of year it is frozen, but as you can read there are a lot of restrictions to it's use. There was some open water last weekend and I'm surprised I didn't see any waterfowl.

In Like a Lion

No weather report here, today's posted pictures are from a weekend tour I took in Europe. It was early February of 1986 and took a loop through Switzerland, these pictures are all from Luzern. The first picture is the Lion Monument or the "Dying Lion of Luzern". Carved into the hillside in 1821 to commemorate the 700 Swiss mercenaries killed in Paris when French Revolutionaries stormed the Royal Palace and Louis the 16th ordered the guards to lay down their arms. A massacre followed. The second is of the original Kapellbrucke and Wasserturm over the River Reuss, built in the 14th century it was the oldest road bridge in Europe. I say the original because I have since learned that in August 1993 a small boat fire near the bridge burned most of this bridge down, a replica was quickly built to replace it, although , some of the damages can still be seen. The last picture is a typical tourist picture of a downtown building showing gargoyles and what look like maidenheads.

I hope you enjoy these pictures, all from back then are scanned from 35mm pictures that were developed in Germany and spent 10-15 years in a magnetic photo album, the kind with the sticky stuff and clear plastic cover. Often my German processed pictures discolored towards yellow and green and the albums turned the pictures brown on the edges. I have since gotten most of these into more archival albums.