Stratton

Stratton afternoon

The Zen Tricksters

Playing for free at the lodge at Stratton, how cool is that?

Ordering a Wii in the car

Yeah, and I didn't get it anyway - foo.

Dad is 82 today!

Lined up and ready to taste

Bourbon tasting @ Jon's 11/29

The tastes:

Sunset over Newark Airport

A walk in the woods

How we celebrate a good report card

Dinner out with a Nintendo DS and headphones

Hiking @ West Hills Park

Green coffees at Real Coffee

Return of the Duck Truck

Followed the flying feathers again last night and came side-by-side with the Duck Truck. We got caught up in nearly-stopped traffic on the Long Island Expressway. Being after nightfall, I needed flash, so I rolled down my window to prevent glare and grabbed this.



With the window down I could hear the hunderds of them quacking away. When Canadian geese fly overhead their quacking invokes notions of nature, lakes, streams and the like for me. In this case all I could imagine was hoisin sauce.

It purty out here

This is outside the deli where I get lunch some days.

I'm @ work

No Photo

Driving across the Bronx one pre-dawn morning this week I saw a shooting star. It seemed beautiful and misplaced at the same time. I was not far from the location of the "Good Morning" photo below, that morning there was no charm - it took me an hour to go 4 miles. There's unexpected beauty to be found if you're alert enough, I guess.

La Marzocco innards

Clover at Real Coffee

We had a Brazilian French Roast and a kona. This is the way to make coffee, folks. Only eleven thousand dollars!

Clover at Real coffee

Good morning

The Bronx, October 16, 6:53 am

Spiral

Golden Gate Park Conservatory

From Powell street

About 2 blocks from my hotel.

Going home, George Washington Bridge

Jake has braces!

Send a salami to your boy in the army

Lunch, 9/29

Visitor tag ball, SF

Lily pads, Golden Gate Park Conservatory

Intelligentsia coffee

Served at a kiosk at Post Plaza.

Above Canyon Country

Truck a Duck

Feathers were flying down the Clearview Expressway

Oakland Bay bridge

5 racks

Jake opens with a spare

September evening by the pool

Seen on a snack vending machine

Bayville drawbridge as the gates go up

Cycling along Oyster Bay

Gull at Tobay

Tobay beach, September 8

Juan on Wall

Senor Valdez visits the financial district.

From the Clover

From Cafe Grumpy in Chelsea. But I didn't write down what I had! :-(

Mtich at work

I took this one on a different visit to Real Coffee

Mitch at work

Here it comes....(should have used flash)

Mitch at work

There it is

Multimodal traffic on 8/31 - 1 of 2

A subway car riding a truck over the George Washington Bridge

Multimodal traffic on 8/31 - 2 of 2

The Goodyear blimp flying low over the Long Island Expressway

Mercial Professional - 1988-2007

The frameset is Reynolds 531c steel, 62 cm with 74 degree parallel angles and virtually no rake - maybe 30-32 mm - which makes for a frisky ride. Mostly Campagnolo Nuovo Record, updated with Velocity rims and Look Keo pedals. A full Ultegra upgrade is to come this fall/winter.
















The lugs are classic British style, hand-carved and pinstriped.




















The bottom bracket sports handmade 60mm tangs - as if this ride weren't already stiff - to eliminate flex.




















Semi-wrapped stays. The name is embossed, not just painted and of course the lug is hand cut and pinstriped.