Country Road

A country road in Lumpkin, Georgia - just outside of Westville. Under exposed intentionally to detail the clouds.

The Truck

My ultra-cool, artsy lowrider magazine cover shot of my truck. Of course it doesn't quite look pretty enough to grace the cover of a magazine right now. Also, it's not - and will never be - a lowrider.

Little George's... wedding!

Little George in a suit! I didn't see that one coming!

And... Ken in a suit! Wow!

My great uncle Ken.

Little George with his 'new' nephew(?).

Little George and his wife.

North Carolina/Tennessee State Line

North Carolina

Tennessee

State Line

Elevation 5048

Great Smokey Mountains National Park

The Commodores (Part One)

June 28th, The Commodores performed a killer show at Fort Benning's Independence Day celebration. I was of course there in the media row with my camera ready!

Brian Mallard

Brian Mallard lit by the light of the setting sun in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

Store Overlooking Tallulah Gorge

Signs adorning the front of a store overlooking Tullulah Gorge in North Georgia.

Fedora

The Smokey Mountains

Earlier this month Walter Mallard, Brian Mallard, and I took a trip to the far blue mountains. Here are just a few pictures from our trip... more to come!

The Smokey Mountains... and a whole lotta sky!

On the Tennessee/North Carolina border. The plaque reads... "FOR THE PERMANENT ENJOYMENT OF THE PEOPLE."

Same place as above... different angle, black and white - and a different day! I like this one a lot.

Growing up through the cracks... and what a view!

Americus, Georgia

Americus, Georgia... The Windsor Hotel.

"203."

Americus, Georgia bench and streets.

A Museum Piece...

...well, not quite, but another cool old camera. I used this camera in the past, however the shutter now needs repair. It's got a 50mm 1.8 lens on it there, the same type of lens I used to take this photo, only I used a Canon.

The Reverend

The Reverend (guitar) and pick. That's a sweet guitar!

Looking Like A Farm Truck

The New Old Truck

The new old truck! A 1965 Chevrolet C10 Fleetside, and I love it! It almost runs, too - just needs a fuel pump and a master brake cylinder. This truck is very similar to Ken Green's long gone 1965 Chevrolet C10 - also a Fleetside.

It has a wood bed... the first old Chevrolet that I have ever seen that still has a wood bed. It's not the original wood, and does need a little work, but still - I think it's very cool. These old trucks used to come with wood beds, but most of the time people weld in sheets of metal when the wood gets weak - or just let it rot out.

A Chevrolet C10!

The interior. The black plastic was covering up the driver side window, which was "lost" inside the door.

The gauges.

The horn button... with the red bowtie... another "first time I have ever seen that!"

Sunken Barge on The Chattahoochee River

Above and Below: A sunken barge in the Chattahoochee River in Columbus. I think it's cool, I'm into this sort of thing! I would love to know the history of it!

My Truck!

Above and Below: Most of you should be familiar with my 1961 Chevrolet Apache 10 by now. If not, here it is again. A couple of black and white shots. In fact, the first pictures I have taken of it since I have moved it.

I have often wondered what kind of history my truck has behind it. Well, I finally found out some of it. The other day I was sitting in the cab reading the Patrick McManus book, "The Night The Bear Ate Goombaw" when I noticed a raised square on the dashboard, where the black paint was peeling. I had noticed this many times before, but had never really thought about it - until then. I set the book aside and began scratching away the black paint to reveal - a sticker, (I guess that's what you would call it,) and it is pictured above. It reads, "No job is so important, and no service is so urgent, that we cannot take time to perform our work safely. Bell Systems." Finally! Some history on the truck! It was once owned, and probably originally ordered, by Bell Systems. A telephone company truck.

Due to the peeling red paint, I have always known the truck was not always red. The cab was a dark green. The bed was a happy light blue. I figured that the bed was not original to the truck - it's never sat quite right on the truck. It's the right kind, it just wasn't mounted right. Of course, my theory on the bed being from a different truck led to some disagreement from my "hired hand." Well, I took a look at the paint code - only to find SPEC - instead of a number. I am assuming that means special - and it was ordered by Bell Systems in that green.

Finally, I did something that I do not know why I had never done before - I decoded the vin number. Ah! My theory was proven. The bed could not have been original as the truck was ordered without a bed. A Cab/Chassis.

Disappointly, for me, that's about where the known history of my '61 Chevrolet Apache 10 ends. It was probably mounted with a utility bed by Bell Systems, and sometime later down the road someone put a true bed on it. I wonder how long it served as a Bell Systems truck. Was it used until Bell Systems 'broke up' in 1984? I do know that two owners before me the truck was owned by a drug dealer - which explains the happy red color, mag wheels, and Corvette engine. The drug dealer paid his lawyer with the truck. Then it was sold to Brian Mallard in the mid-90's, then I inherited it about three years ago.

But what of all that unknown history? I suppose I can only wonder!

Georgia State Highway 96 Sunset... again

A very lovely sunset just outside of Butler, Georgia over Georgia State Highway 96! I love the clouds!

After the sunset, in black and white. A bit of a lonely shot, in my opinion.

First trip down the dirt road in the '65.

Brian (or is that Indy) is our tour guide down the dirt road!

Out the windshield...

View from the back glass... that truck kicked up a lot of dust! This picture is not a good example of how much. (Trust me, I drove behind him on the way back!)


The truck and the car.

Ah! Stopped at the bridge. The Byne hang out of the late-early to mid '90's.

Taking a ride in the Back Pasture!

It has been a few days since my last post, and some of you may have been wondering what I have been up to. Well, here is an example.

Billie and Brian and the truck in the back pasture.

Brian driving like a maniac through the back pasture... oh wait... it was me that was driving like a maniac, just not in this picture!


The aftermath. (All the hay on the radiator.)

"As Time Goes By..."

A 10-second exposure of, yes, you guessed it... my clock. I've always thought this was pretty cool!