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Here's another flashback to 1983.
I was the orientation director at the University of Oklahoma that year. I was 30*. This photo was taken right after the student volunteers I mentored got me in the face with a pie as a token of their affection. One of the student housing dorms, Walker Tower, is in the background.
*Edit: sorry, was 30, not 29!
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I have owned a couple of SUVs in my life, including this Chevrolet S-10 Blazer I used to tow the 22-foot Windrose sailboat I co-owned with a friend from work.
Photo taken in 1983. Oklahoma is a hugely popular sailing location, with manmade lakes everywhere, most in state parks...and the wind really does come sweeping down the plains.
When I lived in Norman, the largest Hobie Cat dealer in the US was there.
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This baby on the sill of our sliding glass door doesn't know he is a threatened population.
They seem to love our neighborhood, it's not unusual to see them when we're out on the community's walking paths. Adults are about 6-8" from head to tail.
#CoachellaValley
#RanchoMirage
#lizardhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coachella_Valley_fringe-toed_lizard
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Here's a photo from a happier Fourth of July, taken near the bank of the South Canadian River*, which runs just south of my childhood home, Norman OK. 1957, I think.
In Oklahoma, there's a saying, "the rivers are a mile wide and an inch deep." Except after storms, they're mostly wide flat strips of sand.
*Celebrated in song by Michael Martin Murphey
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The screensaver on my laptop uses random images from the albums I've selected in Google Photos. A happy memory just came up from 2021, my 1990 BMW E30 convertible, and the Napa Valley, where I worked in retail and tourism from 2015-23 as my retirement job.
This is on Yount Mill Road, just outside Yountville.
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Ted Gioia has written a powerful article about Brian Wilson, being different, and why a salvaged brick from the high school he and Brian both attended is one of his most treasured objects.
If you've ever felt different (raising my hand) you will identify.
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Fellow southern California transplants from the Bay Area , important news.
Napa's Gott's Roadside is coming to LA!
Opening in the Farmer's Market this year, Santa Monica next year.
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We actually do have Spring in the desert. Desert native Palo Verde trees have green trunks and branches, with feathery leaves. This time of year they're covered with tiny yellow flowers. There is a grove of them on our community's exit drive, making a bright yellow understory for the palms.
For detail, the
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Since today is the anniversary of the Titanic sinking, it is also the day on which Downton Abbey begins.
The newspaper arrives, is pressed (!) and taken upstairs, where the family learns over breakfast of the tragedy and the deaths at sea of the two male heirs to Downton Abbey. That set the stage for everything that followed.
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This is the power of nonprofit investigative journalism.
Cal Matters documents case after case where driver's licenses were renewed after the driver caused (some times repeatedly) fatalities.
This is a huge story, and only possible because they took months of grinding file-by-file investigation time to report it.
#CalMatters
#InvestigativeJournalismhttps://calmatters.org/investigation/2025/04/license-to-kill/
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@octothorpe
If we were to judge brands by the wartime history of their origin countries, I'd be in trouble. I've owned (counting on fingers) 7 BMWs and 7 Volkswagens--not to mention, 3 Hondas.And of course, I have despised He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named #2 as long as I have been aware of him. So I have been #NeverTesla since day one.
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Spring in the southern California desert is windy season. For most of the year, vacuuming the pool is a once every 10 days or so thing. After nonstop wind off the desert for the last week, this is what I cleaned up this morning. (I sucked up at least this much last Sunday morning, showing how much blew in over the last four days.). Looks lovely now, though.
See comment for the results!
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This nice 1960 Impala convertible was in the parking lot when I picked up lunch at In N Out today.
#ClassicCars
#Chevrolet
#InNOut
#RanchoMirage
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Here is the last Modernism Week classic car show post.
A rare, underappreciated second generation turbocharged Corvair Monza convertible is parked behind a terrific Healey.
A 1959 Citroen DS in light tan with a maroon interior.
An aqua mid-60s first generation Pontiac Grand Prix, license plate "Aquanet."
And a Studebaker Hawk.
#ModernismWeek
#ClassicCars
#PalmSprings
#Healey
#Corvair
#Citroen
#Pontiac
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Here is the last Modernism Week classic car show post.
A rare, underappreciated second generation turbocharged Corvair Monza convertible is parked behind a terrific Healey.
A 1959 Citroen DS in light tan with a maroon interior.
An aqua mid-60s first generation Pontiac Grand Prix, license plate "Aquanet."
And a Studebaker Hawk.
#ModernismWeek
#ClassicCars
#PalmSprings
#Healey
#Corvair
#Citroen
#Pontiac
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Here is the last Modernism Week classic car show post.
A rare, underappreciated second generation turbocharged Corvair Monza convertible is parked behind a terrific Healey.
A 1959 Citroen DS in light tan with a maroon interior.
An aqua mid-60s first generation Pontiac Grand Prix, license plate "Aquanet."
And a Studebaker Hawk.
#ModernismWeek
#ClassicCars
#PalmSprings
#Healey
#Corvair
#Citroen
#Pontiac
#Studebaker -
Here is the last Modernism Week classic car show post.
A rare, underappreciated second generation turbocharged Corvair Monza convertible is parked behind a terrific Healey.
A 1959 Citroen DS in light tan with a maroon interior.
An aqua mid-60s first generation Pontiac Grand Prix, license plate "Aquanet."
And a Studebaker Hawk.
#ModernismWeek
#ClassicCars
#PalmSprings
#Healey
#Corvair
#Citroen
#Pontiac
#Studebaker -
Here is the last Modernism Week classic car show post.
A rare, underappreciated second generation turbocharged Corvair Monza convertible is parked behind a terrific Healey.
A 1959 Citroen DS in light tan with a maroon interior.
An aqua mid-60s first generation Pontiac Grand Prix, license plate "Aquanet."
And a Studebaker Hawk.
#ModernismWeek
#ClassicCars
#PalmSprings
#Healey
#Corvair
#Citroen
#Pontiac
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I just have a few more posts from the Modernism Week classic car show, held Monday in Palm Springs.
A senior Ford Exec was a member of Thunderbird Country Club in Rancho Mirage, and took the name for their new sport roadster in 1955.
The dark turquoise "bullet bird" shown here is a 1961, with the new-for-61 swing away steering wheel.
There was also a lovely yellow 62,. And a 55 or 56 black two-seater.
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More Palm Springs Modernism Week classic car show: a couple of great Fords.
We were a Ford family, We had a 55 Ford wagon, then a 58 Country Squire, then I learned to drive in our Guardsman Blue1964 Galaxie 500 XL four-door hardtop and our white 1965 Custom four-door sedan. So this 1964 Country Squire and 1965 Galaxie 500 convertible are both close to my heart.
#ModernismWeek
#PalmSprings
#ClassicCars
#Ford3/
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More from the Palm Springs Modernism Week classic car show.
This beautiful 1960 Lincoln convertible is a near-twin of the 1958 model Eva Marie Saint drove in Hitchcock's North By Northwest. The guy in the maroon t-shirt is my husband, Craig.
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#ModernismWeek
#PalmSprings
#ClassicCars
#Lincoln
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Yesterday I promised more photos from the Palm Springs Modernism Week classic car show.
Yesterday when we were driving to breakfast, there was an old white roadster a few cars back, and I wracked my brain trying to place it. Turns out, it was in the car show later in the day, and it's a very rare 1967 Ghia/Chrysler:
#ModernismWeek
#PalmSprings
#ClassicCars
#Ghia1/
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Here is another great car just parked among the SUVs, Corollas, Teslas, and other everyday automotive detritus during Palm Springs Modernism Week.
Spotted when we went to breakfast.
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We just finished seeing the Palm Springs Modernism Week classic car show. Lots more photos soon, but TL;DR, it was groovy!
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This is Modernism Week in Palm Springs, so we get to see even more classic cars than usual.
Leaving brunch just now, this lovely 62 Lincoln Continental was in the parking lot. One of my favorite cars of all time.
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Good morning, Mastodon-land!
The San Jacinto Mountains are particularly majestic today, wreathed in clouds and dappled shadows. There is a sundoggish cloud rainbow near the peak.
It's 58F, 14C, a typical February day here in the Coachella Valley of California (taken from the street in front of our home in Rancho Mirage).
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Courage in the face of oppression is vital..
I grew up in Norman OK, home to the U of Oklahoma, and a "sundown" town where Black people were only allowed in town during the day.
This didn't formally end until 1967, when Dr. George Henderson became the first Black OU professor, the first Black homeowner in Norman. His son, George Jr. was in my class in high school. . He and sister Michelle, 1 year younger, were the first Black people I ever knew.
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Courage in the face of oppression is vital..
I grew up in Norman OK, home to the U of Oklahoma, and a "sundown" town where Black people were only allowed in town during the day.
This didn't formally end until 1967, when Dr. George Henderson became the first Black OU professor, the first Black homeowner in Norman. His son, George Jr. was in my class in high school. . He and sister Michelle, 1 year younger, were the first Black people I ever knew.
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Courage in the face of oppression is vital..
I grew up in Norman OK, home to the U of Oklahoma, and a "sundown" town where Black people were only allowed in town during the day.
This didn't formally end until 1967, when Dr. George Henderson became the first Black OU professor, the first Black homeowner in Norman. His son, George Jr. was in my class in high school. . He and sister Michelle, 1 year younger, were the first Black people I ever knew.
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Courage in the face of oppression is vital..
I grew up in Norman OK, home to the U of Oklahoma, and a "sundown" town where Black people were only allowed in town during the day.
This didn't formally end until 1967, when Dr. George Henderson became the first Black OU professor, the first Black homeowner in Norman. His son, George Jr. was in my class in high school. . He and sister Michelle, 1 year younger, were the first Black people I ever knew.
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