Picture Gallery

Occasionally, I take pictures that I actually like. Some of them are here. Other related pictures by my photo-minded friends are here, too.

Index to pictures

• Alien Cows drawing
• Flying Tiger airplane
• Cool fungus on a tree
• A laundromat in Arcata, CA
• A chrome dog
• The Green Tortoise at Cow Creek, Oregon
• Primary colored mill
• My parents
• My brother Tom
• Me (photo by Suze)
• Me (photo by Larz)
• Ford, and a cool Piper Cub J3
• Hand and a QuickCam

A fine hand-drawing of a collection of alien cows. December 1997. One in a continuing series of line-art beasties.

This is a Curtiss P-40E Warhawk. It is painted in the colors of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the Flying Tigers, before they were absorbed into the US Army Air Force as the 23rd Fighter Group. The picture was taken in August 1994 at the US Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio.

I didn't know this, Ford did.

This is a weird fungus growing on the side of a tree in West Milton, Ohio sometime during August 1994. I am informed by Kathie Hodge (kh11@cornell.edu) that "It looks like Polyporus squamosus to me (literally, the scaly many-pored fungus). It's found mainly in eastern N. America and is a "white-rotter" of trees: it attacks wounded trees and grows in them, digesting the (brown) lignins, and leaving the wood punky and white. The thing in the picture is its fruiting body, out of which spores are pouring like fine rain; the main "body" of the fungus is an almost invisible mold growing inside the tree. You can eat the fruiting body when it's young, but, well, I'd have to be pretty hungry."

Check out the Mycology home page, if this is your thing. (And if it isn't, there are more cool pictures there.)

This is a laundromat in Arcata, CA, that I saw when I was on my Bicycle Adventure 1995.

This is a hood ornament of a Mac Truck, also seen during my Bicycle Adventure 1995. I was pedaling along the Otter Crest Loop, off of Highway 101 in Oregon (about 20 miles south of Lincoln City). It was a grey, overcast day, and I looked up at one point to see a vision of a chrome dog on a white truck silhouetted against the grey sky.

The Green Tortoise taking a breakfast stop at Cow Creek, Oregon. Yep, there's more about it in my Bicycle Adventure 1995.

The most attractive lumber yard I saw during my Bicycle Adventure 1995. It was in Willamina, Oregon, self-proclaimed "Timber Town USA".

This is my mom and dad, taken in West Milton, Ohio, August 1994. Photo by Kristin Dyer.

This is my brother Tom, also taken August 1994, West Milton, Ohio. He is a mathematician/artist, and is currently attending the Pacific Northwest College of Art, after spending several years as a scurve at Caltech.

This is me, as captured by Suzi Varin, 1989-ish.

More of me. Taken by Larz Norpchen, one of my coolest friends.

This is a Piper Cub J3, operated out of the Watsonville, CA airport by the Stick and Rudder Club. Ford flew me from Watsonville to Lodi, CA, for a juggling festival in november, 1994. It was pretty cool to fly that far with the window open! Also fun was watching people wave at us, and having ford wave the plane back at them.

Another short of the Cub, when we landed in Lodi. Nathan and Beau met us to drive us back to the juggling festival.

Fun with my QuickCam, 30 January 1997.