I spent most of the day today getting ready for tomorrow’s Lynnfield Muster. The Mack hasn’t been anywhere in about 18 months, so she needed some mechanical TLC. As with all things involving antique trucks, a few simple projects proved more expensive and more time consuming than planned. They’re still not all done, and I didn’t have time for much cosmetic work, but we’ll be there bright and early in the morning.
Drill night at the firehouse brought the chance to experiment with night photography. Shot with Nikon D70, SB600 flash, and a tripod. I think I’m finally figuring this out.
June 8 – sunset captured on the iPhone.
June 9 – a cold (for June) windy afternoon in Monument Square.
We attended the 22nd Annual White Mountains Trackcar Meet on the Hobo and Winnipesaukee Railroads this weekend. The motorcar ran very well; the weather not so much. 
New Haven cab cars at the Hobo RR in Lincoln, NH. June 4.
June 5. Somewhere in Campton, NH.
June 6. Angry sky over Weirs Beach, NH and the M/S Mount Washington. The rain started shortly after.
Back last fall I wrote a post about The Project, where a medic from SF and a medic from the UK visited each other’s systems to compare and learn.
If you don’t follow my blogroll, you might not know the rest of the story. The Project has evolved into Chronicles of EMS, and it’s become a social media phenomenon. There are plans to go worldwide, and to try to get onto mainstream TV.
And therein lies the problem. The TV types say Chronicles of EMS: The Reality Series needs a new name, and you can help.
Mark Glencourse has all the details over at 999Medic.com.
Watch what’s already been made, and make a suggestion for a new name. The winner gets fantastic prizes, and hopefully a place in TV history.
(I’ve been remiss in my duties as a blogger. I promised this post for Friday the 4th, but I’ve been busy playing with my family. Priorities and all that.)
I keep finding the need to restate that fact. I am a heavy machinery fan though, and cranes make for some interesting machinery.
In the course of my Project 365 travels, I found both of these in the last two days. In the end I liked my fog shots better, so they got the nod. I couldn’t not share these, though.
While searching for good fog photos on the harbor, I found this bad boy at a local marina. I’ve no idea of the M-designation, but it’s a formidable piece of equipment. (‘Marine’ refers to the business, whose name and number I’ve removed.)
Just down the road a bit from the 5-ton monster is this deuce-and-a-half, with an aftermarket modification. I’ve seen it out around town a number of times. I’m not sure what the owner does with it, or even who he is.
(Click the ‘crane’ tag below for more of my crane photos.)
Yesterday the fog rolled in. In most areas it burned off quickly, but on the penninsula of the Eastern Front it lasted all day. I saw a number of beautiful photos, but I was always with a patient or otherwise unable to shoot them. Through dumb luck, I had left my good camera in the trunk of my car; I would not even attempt to shoot in fog with the iPhone.
In the early evening, we went back out to try for some photos. Most of the fog had finally burned off.
As you can see, it lifted enough to show the harbor, but hadn’t left completely by dusk.
This morning it was back, and I was able to catch this on the Harbor:
The DUKW is a famous WWII amphibious truck. Today a large fleet (flotilla?) of them lives on in Boston, painted in gaudy colors and providing tours both on land and water. Tuesday I had occasion to be along the Charles River while servicing the MOS letterbox. It was a beautiful morning, and at one point I could count six of them visible in the water at once. The sixth one may be hard to see at this screen size, but it’s there, fourth from the left in the far distance.