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When the Road Ahead Changes

Scooter in the Sticks — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 04:05:00 +0000

Sometimes the Road Ahead is Straight and Familiar I’m not talking about the pavement. Or dirt and gravel. The change I refer to is when life disrupts my routine and expectations. When I ride I seem more aware now of those changes and the potential impact they have on the journey forward. Even little things […]

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Fueled by Desire

Scooter in the Sticks — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 05:08:30 +0000

Restless on the Road A ride can begin without goal or expectation — just a twist of the throttle and touch of the bar fueled by desire for movement and motion, a flash of vision as the landscape sweeps by. And before long you’re miles from home. Sunday morning began in uncertainty for I wasn’t […]

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Seduced by the Morning

Scooter in the Sticks — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 05:21:47 +0000

I’m a morning person. Or at least I used to be. Eyes still spring open automatically at 6:05am regardless of when they closed. The mind is ready but the body has begun to resist the transition from horizontal to vertical, from the dream world to the real world. Riding one morning last week I was […]

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A Plain Ride to Work

Scooter in the Sticks — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:32:00 +0000

I could not resist stopping to talk with this horse. I figured he might be related to my Belgian Sheepdog Junior being a Belgian draft horse. Pauses like this during the morning ride to work are sort of, well, therapeutic. Calms my squirming brain before sitting down to a day’s work. When I first stopped […]

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A State of Mind

Scooter in the Sticks — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:19:00 +0000

On the way home from work I was doing a bit of musing as I wandered around a farm field with my camera and was thinking about how I often come to be in places like this. Dan Bateman, author of Musings of an Intrepid Commuter, recently wrote about the state of mind that riding […]

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3 Prints Project — February 3, 2008

Scooter in the Sticks — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:39:00 +0000

Another week has passed and I managed to shoot two more rolls and make prints. It is becoming easier to get myself into the darkroom and exposing the film is becoming more transparent in my life. It definitely helps that I carry my Leica M6 with me everywhere. Here are the pictures… Early last Sunday […]

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The 11 Degree Fahrenheit Commute

Scooter in the Sticks — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:17:00 +0000

Darkness and the thermometer indicated 6 degrees when I got out of bed. It requires great effort to leave the house; on foot, by car, or on the Vespa. Once the sun comes out it’s another matter entirely. Preparing for cold rides takes more time, more layers of clothes, heavier gear, wires for the electric […]

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To Ride or Not to Ride

Scooter in the Sticks — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:28:00 +0000

That is the question. One that goes beyond any momentary consideration of weather. It’s a question of time and choices. Riding for riding’s sake and not for transportation. Transportation is a simple question to answer and so is the weather. What I’m talking about is making a choice to ride when I have nowhere to […]

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A Person Who is Looking for Something Doesn’t Travel Very Fast

Scooter in the Sticks — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:28:00 +0000

The trip to and from work today was slow and deliberate. Random patches of ice in the morning and patches of gravel this afternoon required careful attention. And adequate attention translates in speeds below normal. E.B. White’s quote used in the title of this post reaches beyond the obvious. It means more that the resultant […]

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A Riding Photo Project

Scooter in the Sticks — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:42:00 +0000

Committing to a photography project is difficult. Mental gymnastics intended to clarify and focus a direction generally leave me thinking that every photograph has been made and adding to the sum total of human expression is a pointless exercise. Every mundane chore or diversion looms larger and the camera sits quietly in the dark. My […]

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