The Road Otter

Madness In Macadam

I already know.

Pictures on this website have been taken from moving cars, in the rain, the snow, the bright shiny day with harsh glare, all sorts of adverse conditions. If you don't have a better picture you're willing to share, don't tell me how bad the pictures are. I already know.

Not the pics you planned on

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One of the downsides to taking pictures from a moving car.

OldBillboardYou don’t get what you think you’re getting.

 

WhatIWanted

 

This is what I was after

 

TreeInView

 

Pardon me, who put the tree in just that spot?

RidgeInView

 

Much better, thank you

 

 

BlurredTreeInView

 

I was not destined to get the shot of those cliffs.

BlurredBushInView

 

 
GuardRail

It’s not modern art, but a guard rail at 70mph, after an encounter with a pothole caused the camera to jump.

GuardRail2

 
Guard rail done a bit better.
With bonus tree.
 

RoadImprovementGuide

 

 

If it’s not a bloody tree, it’s a bloody sign.

 

EndRoadWork

 

 
Thanks for letting me know.

 

CarsToTheLeft

 

Or a car. Where’d they come from?
 

CarsToTheRight

 

 

 
TwoTelephonePoles
 
In case one pole wasn’t enough.

 

 

TreesAndPoles
 

Now the trees and the power poles
are ganging up on me.

 

 

RoadWork

 

Road Work

RoadWorkSigns

 

And signs for road work.

 

 

Every time we stopped, I’d clean the bugs off.
JuneBugDecorations

Within minutes, one more junebug would do a kamakazi on my windshield, right in the middle of my best shots.

 

SunsetWithJuneBugs

 

Romantic sunset,
with junebug splots
right in the middle.

 

 

DashBoard

 

I didn’t even know I’d taken this shot till I downloaded all the pics.

 

And there you have it, folks. The joys of taking pictures from a moving car.

 

Lonely signs on a lonely road

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Some months ago, I was in California. In my meanderings, I found a couple of “Historic Route 6” signs at the very north end of Sierra Highway.

Historic US 6 marker on Sierra Highway northbound just before left turn to CA 14 to Mojave. Sierra Highway continues on to a dead end, and one can see where it used to run, before CA 14 took its place.
Historic US 6 marker on Sierra Highway northbound just before left turn
to CA 14 to Mojave.
Historic US 6 marker on Sierra Highway southbound just after turn from CA 14 from Mojave. Sierra Highway continues on behind me to a dead end, and one can see where it used to run, before CA 14 took its place.
Historic US 6 marker on Sierra Highway southbound just after turn
from CA 14 from Mojave.

 

North end of Sierra Highway, where CA 14 cut off access to the town of Mojave.
North end of Sierra Highway, where CA 14 cut off access to the town of Mojave.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the lonely north end of Sierra Highway. The power poles follow the old route, and the trains still run alongside. The end of the road, past the marker, seems to be used by a construction company for staging. Just beyond the pile of brown stuff is a pile of black stuff. And beyond that is dirt, running in a straight line until it hits CA 14 just outside of Mojave.