Photopalooza

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Last night Sebastian and I walked over to see the "old-fashioned cars" again. This was a big one; they'd cordoned off the main street as a display area. I got a lot of photos. Recently I've been resampling the photos I post here, but I'm leaving these full size. CORRECTION: once I got them up I saw that at full size, they were too big to view on a 17-inch screen at 800x600. So I cut them to 75% of their original size. There are a lot of them, though, thirteen in all - so you still might want to skip these if you're on dial-up.

An odd little green car. Not much more to say.

Sebastian found a car from 1914 and decided that it was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. He was particularly excited because it had a starter crank, just like Chitty. The owner let Sebastian turn the crank a little (it was secured with a leather strap, so he couldn't actually start it). Meanwhile, a photographer from our local paper (the Woonsocket Call) snapped about six or seven pictures of Sebastian while other people watched. At one point the photographer was trying to photograph Sebastian from between the spokes of the wheel, but Sebastian noticed him and went over to peek right back at him. Everybody laughed.
I suspect the photo(s) will appear next week, so I'll have to pick up a copy of the Call to see.

To the left you see the owner of "Chitty". Just behind him is an unknown car with a pretty strange driver.

This very cool-looking car reminded me of some of those model cars they used to sell when I was a kid in the early 1970's. But there was something odd...

It's a little hard to see (sorry about the blurriness), but there were actual flames in the lamps on this car! Purely an affectation, of course, since it had regular electric lights in front. But it was cool.

A long shot of the quieter end of the street, from the north side of town.

The little green car in motion.

The back end of "Chitty". The owner kept trying to talk to Sebastian, but the boy would have none of it.

It's always difficult to get Sebastian to leave the car show, but it was getting close to his bedtime and we'd been there more than an hour. So I reminded him that there were kitties, sometimes, in the...what is it? Sort of a deep grass-lined pit in front of a retirement home downtown. The cats are wild, but there's no easy way out of that trough in the middle (it's about twenty feet deep, with sheer stone walls) A cement bridge provides entrance to the retirement home. Speaking of which, seven or eight residents were sitting out front, watching the car show, and they had a good time chatting with Sebastian. Oh, in the photo above you can actually see a second cat, hiding in the shadow of the bridge, if you look carefully.

On the way home we stopped at the gazebo near the waterfall, and then looked at the waterfall itself. A large tree trunk had gone over the falls, and was stuck. Sebastian found it interesting but a little disturbing - he wanted to know where the leaves and branches had gone.

And now, a few unrelated photos:

Sebastian occasionally gets his hands on the camera and fills up the chip. Many of the photos are blurry closeups of his chin, but this is a sort of interesting shot of our cat Sam.

Train tracks in Woonsocket. I shot this from a moving car as we drove over the tracks.

Might as well leave one photo outside of the LJ-cut.

The Big Wooden Man. I pass him every day on my commute, and Sebastian always points him out. So last weekend I took Sebastian to actually see him up close. But the obstinate boy refused to pose with the Big Wooden Man. He's about twenty feet tall, by the way.