Memorial Day, 2015.

Our flag.

 

I decided that this photo would do well for my Memorial Day post. I wanted to post a flag today after watching the news reports and reading them in the local paper about various dedicated people all over the country who place a flag on each person's grave for today's memorial.

This flag flies at Talladega Superspeedway. I took it before the NASCAR race on 11/1/2009 from where I sat in the grandstand. It's a huge flag. The tractor-trailer rig that you see there beyond the flag pole is actually on I-20, going east.

Red, white, and blue -- just for you -- Happy 4th of July!

Talladega Superspeedway, 40th Reunion of NASCAR Aero Cars, Parade Lap, Sunday, November 1, 2009. I had a blast!

A primary color, yellow, lots and lots of yellow

I've had fun with Picnik's Exposure, Local Contrast, on these photos unless otherwise noted.


"Facing the Crowd," with a yellow van behind it, at PGE Park in downtown Portland, Oregon


Earl Scheib rooster car, at Talladega Super Speedway


1933 Ford Roadster Utility, from Australia, shown at the Olympia Street Rod Association Car Show at the Lucky Eagle Casino, Rochester, Washington, August 14, 2010


No Picnik here, just as photographed on the tailgate of the ute.


The bed


The steering wheel


A wheel


The hood ornament


The hood ornament, un-Picniked


The entire ute, un-Picnicked

Music on Main, Dr. Theopolis, Aug. 18, 2010, Part #1

I took off early, rode the bus home, called for a taxi so that Mama and I could meet our friends Danielle and her mother Pat for an evening outdoors, listening to live music, for free! Danielle and Pat were here on a week's vacation, up from California. We had a great time listening to a band called Dr. Theopolis, quite a talented group of eight men who also happened to be quite easy on the eyes. Here you see four of them. Would that you could hear them.


One more of Dr. Theopolis.


And one more. Two to go.


The last two.


All eight of Dr. Theopolis, plus a bit of the crowd.

Come back tomorrow for shots of the crowd livin' it up to the funky beat!

If you get a minute, take a look at my other blog, Mama & Me from PDX--we're still on vacation over there! It's all about lug nuts at Talladega Superspeedway!

Our Flag

I decided that this photo would do well for my Memorial Day post. I wanted to post a flag today after watching the news reports and reading them in the local paper about various dedicated people all over the country who place a flag on each person's grave for today's memorial.

This flag flies at Talladega Superspeedway. I took it before the NASCAR race on 11/1/2009. The flag is between half and three quarters of a mile from where I'm sitting--that's my best guess anyway. It's a huge flag. The tractor-trailer rig that you see there beyond the flag pole is actually on I-20, going east. It's probably another half to three quarters of a mile to the interstate. I boosted the colors at Picnik.

Vacation, Day 10, 10/30/2009, Part 6

It's on the move! That yellow car! Looks like a rooster to me!


What are those words on the side of it? The larger word looks like Scheib, but I've Googled Scheib and yellow chicken car and found out not one thing.


I took this photo as I walked back towards the campground. See the arrow? I put it there, pointing at the general location of Milton and Kay's trailer, in relation to the Talladega Superspeedway. You can tell from this, I hope, just how close by we were to the action.


Here's a close-up so that you can see the yellow circle "You Are Here" right outside the Talladega Superspeedway (can you tell I LOVE to type TALLADEGA?)--that is where I stopped to take the photo. The Private Property with the black arrow on it, towards the right corner points to right about where Milton's gonna fry up some mighty fine food--y'all come back, ya heah!

What a wonderful, blessed vacation!

Vacation, Day 10, 10/30/2009, Part 5

Lined up, getting ready for truck qualifying--they're getting ready for Saturday, 10/31/2009, and the Mountain Dew 250 fueled by Fred’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race. Driving the 15, Aric Almrola; the 24, David Starr; and the 47, Brandon Knupp.




Ricky Carmichael drives the 4 Monster truck. I think that's him in the green suit on the left. Look at the cameras that woman on the right has--one in her hand, one on her shoulder--she's so ready!


So is Chrissy Wallace, driver of the 08 Fuel Doctor Dot Com truck.

Vacation, Day 10, 10/30/2009, Part 4

I've been so-o-o-o tired after work all week that I have not been up to posting on my blogs or reading anyone's blog. But after getting to sleep in, sort of, on Saturday and Sunday, plus catching up with the laundry on Saturday and mopping and running the vacuum on Sunday, I believe that I have some energy left to blog! Hooray!


You know how excited I was when I saw this yellow vehicle, don't you? All I could think about was, "I hope I get to see it when it starts along one of those roads in the infield!" Naturally, I wondered what it was all about.


Two rows of Rams, Dodge that is. These surely are driver-introduction vehicles. Don't you just love that curved cyclone fence? Or do you call it a chain-link fence? Our family home in Jackson had a fenced backyard--there was a tiny metal sign attached to it it a few places that read "Cyclone."


You reckon this huge-screen TV folds back down into that trailer? See the white-headed man on the left of the photo, wearing a pink shirt? He's not all that far away from the TV, and look how huge it is compared to him!


For this particular day at the track, we could sit wherever we wanted, no assigned seats as such. So we were on the first row of the first upper level. All of a sudden these men were in front of me, so naturally I started taking photos. I mean, they're blocking my view, so they're fair game. Right? I love that guy on the right, pointing.


The writing on that one guy's shirt gives away what they're up to--CameraTrux. Must be making a video or a documentary. Certainly, they're heavily involved, focused on their conversation.


See the man on the right? The one who was pointing in the first photo. That pass hanging around his neck has HOT on it. That's not a statement about him. HOT means that as long as he has that pass around his neck, he can go any where in the garage and the pits, any time, even when the cars are coming out of the garage and headed for practice or qualifying or racing. What a luck son-of-gun! My guess is that every single one of them has a HOT pass, so that's a passle of lucky son-of-a-guns!


Yep, there you can see more HOT passes. And the man with the notebook, that's a guy after my own heart. He's got his eyeglasses on, and his sunshades up in his hair. I'll bet he wears his sunshades right over his eyeglasses, just like I do! And I would buy that binder in a New York minute--love those circles. They left soon after I took this photo, never to be seen again by me.

Vacation shall continue, real soon.

Vacation, Day 10, 10/30/2009, Part 2

Yep, he's in there. Dale Earnhardt Jr. himself. When I look at this photo at its very largest size, I can see his helmet and his right arm, even in the shadows. Now I realize, thoroughly realize, that not everyone is a Junior fan. But I am. And, just like with my beloved Portland Trail Blazers, I am not a fair weather fan. I am a Dale Earnhardt Jr. fan--have been and shall remain so.

I took these photos during Spring Cup practice on Friday afternoon. The cars are leaving pit road and heading back out onto the Talladega Superspeedway. I don't know for sure how fast they're going, but they're not sitting still--that I know for sure. They're accelerating, probably between 30-50 mph.


Mark Martin, another one of my favorites. That man turned 51 years old last January!


Here's Greg Biffle. H was born in Vancouver, Washington, right there on the other side of the Columbia River from Portland!


Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon.

Vacation, Day 10, 10/30/2009, Part 1

Rise and shine! Or as Mama used to say every single morning while I was in school, "Up and at 'em!" It's breakfast time at Talladega!


A place for everything and everything in its place. Is that the way that saying goes? Or did I get in backwards?


Omelet veggies, on the stove for those who want omelets.


Kay made grits! Perfect grits! The rest of my food filled the bill, too, and really got me ready for another special vacation day.


Seen in the campground.


Time to head for the Talladega Super Speedway for the day's activities.

Vacation, Day 9, 10/29/2009, Part 7

After it got dark, Ian took me for a ride to see some nearby Halloween decorations at the campground at Talladega, Alabama.








Kay's E-Z Ups and Halloween decorations.


I love these bats!