“Purple Haze” ~ Mused Jimi Hendrix - an avid science fiction fan - whilst being interviewed: “You know the song … It was about going through this land. This mythical [land] … because tha... (more)

"Night Moves"

"Dreadnought"

“Harm’s Way to Harvest” ~ One of 154,204 G506 World War II era 235-ci, 83-hp, 1-1/2 ton, 4x4, standard cargo/troop transports built by Chevy in Pontiac, Michigan languishes in the spring sun... (more)

"Magellan" ~ Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan must have relied heavily on his cosmographer and sextant when he set out on the “Peaceful Sea” in search of fame and fortune while finding a... (more)

“Boiling heat, summer stench…” ~ Burning. Time. Land. Light. ¶ EWG is on the move and hogger Zach Hastings has a firm set applied; pinching 456 wheels wanting to roll on half as many axles.... (more)

"Headin' back for more..." ~ Evenin’ comin’ down off the Columbia River Sub over Latah Bridge and Junction – empty – headin’ back for more, on its way back to Powder River coal mines: Bl... (more)

“Atherosclerosis” ~ If there ever were a case of atherosclerosis in BNSF’s vast cardiovascular rail system, the famed infamous “Funnel,” so famously coined by my friend Bruce Kelly so ma... (more)

"Almira, 03:30" ~ Turning another silent into a violent night. A methodical violence that is: disturbing the dead and the dead-asleep alike. Hootin’, rootin’ and a tootin’ – Cowboys and th... (more)

“Snake Crossing” ♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤♤ We had actionable intel that a northbound was ... (more)

“Seven Up, Sun Down” ~ She’s quickly pulling the horizon over her sleepy eye while seven “ecomagination” motors seem to steam upgrade, sweating swirling heat into the brisk butterscotch ... (more)

“Close Encounters” ~ Eerily silent – the florescent landing lights and glow of what at first glance appears to be an alien craft counting down to liftoff thrusting its rocket, spear-like plu... (more)

“Dust to Dust” ~ On a still warmed sunsetting August day, suspended in the melted margarine sky sediment stirred up by combines harvesting wheat turns to ever so slightly drifting dust cloakin... (more)

"Some Days Are Diamonds ~ Some Days Are Coal ~ Some Days Are Both" ~ aka "Big Sky ~ Big Train ~ Big Picture" Hell y'all know this "spot." No splainin' needed. (27May17 ©)

“Corpus Delicti” ~ Does my shadow catching a ride on a Z-train constitute a crime? If you think about it for a moment, it seems hardly far-fetched, these days. The world at large has indelibly... (more)