WHERE EAGLES NEST

WHERE EAGLES NEST
Originally uploaded by roberthuffstutter

WHERE EAGLES NEST
Short trips to the mountains afford time-outs for getting away

Uploaded by roberthuffstutter on 10 Dec 09, 5.41AM PDT___________________________________________

.The below is my response to a friend who mentioned the simplicity of my work. Kayceetee mentioned it in a comment in my photostream and I like the term, "simplicity."

I think you have described my work well. It is simple and that is easy to accept; it lessens the anxiety I might have had about my style or my particular compositions. Impressionism is simple. I like that. I like that description and will implement it into my genre and text about style in impressionism.

A TRIBUTE TO MY UNCLE JIM AND AUNT DOROTHY

Both are gone now. Uncle Jim passed away in August of 1984. Aunt Dorothy passed away in May of 1972. When Uncle Jim died, the end of the family unit as I knew it ended. Their daughter, Betty, made sure she got the entire inheritance and enjoyed rubbing her final victory in my face by sending my daughter a post card and a blue dress from Hawaii with a message that she and Rick were enjoying the money. As a nephew, I never expected any money. Betty had been one jealous woman since the time my uncle and aunt took me into their home as a small boy. Instead of being a sister to me, she demonstrated her hatred and spite toward me even when I was a small boy. One remembers these events more clearly the older one grows.

Vintage postcard with Santa Fe Super Chief

Vintage postcard with Santa Fe Super Chief
Originally uploaded by cklx

This was the train that took me to that great land of California back in 1959. It was a great trip and the orange groves served to remind one that they were, indeed, almost to their destination where the blue Pacfic met the golden sands of the California Beach Scene...
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The below text by CKLX:
Vintage postcard with Santa Fe Super Chief
I bought this postcard in an antiques shop in Ludington, MI. It was only $3. They also had postcards of trains in Ludington and other Michigan towns, but these usually sold for $10-20 a piece...
The train of course is the famous Santa Fe Super Chief from 1936. I think I've seen this postcard before in a book on the Santa Fe streamliners.
The card was published by the Western Publishing and Novelty Co. in LA. It's numbered #506. Does anybody know if there were other postcards with train images?
According to the stamp, the card was mailed in San Diego in 1948. The sender wrote a short message in Oceanside - she bought tickets (for the train?) to travel home on May 28.
Is this a fantasy scene or do the mountains in the background indicate a specific location?

Uploaded by cklx on 29 Aug 07, 5.11AM PDT.

Keyport NJ

Keyport NJ
Originally uploaded by Keyport-Kid

MY FIRST CAR WAS A 50 PLYMOUTH AND LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE THIS, SAME COLOR, SAME EVERYTHING. IT WAS A FAST ONE..________________________________________
Keyport NJ
1950 Plymouth Delux
Was going to go black and white but the blue on this car is to good.

Uploaded by Keyport-Kid on 28 Nov 08, 7.00PM PDT.

I’m so sick of travelling without reaching a destination…

I’m so sick of travelling without reaching a destination…
Originally uploaded by Eric Clipperton

There are rails in my own lifetime, too many really.
There have been times when I never took that return trip and now, now I wish I had. But that train is long gone,
and the station is probably gone too.
I’m so sick of travelling without reaching a destination…
Half my life I spent on trains, going from one place to another.
Meeting friends, meeting family, meeting obligations, meeting people who mean the world to me ….. and leaving them after a certain time, with the certainty that I won’t see them for a long period of time
So many familiar places, but no home.

Uploaded by Eric Clipperton on 4 Jun 10, 11.11AM PDT.
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