Red Umbrella Project #52:  VW (very weedy)

love bugs

 

This isn't a great photograph but it's an outstanding picture.  It was the best I could do while pulling to the side of a busy highway by the Tennessee Highway Patrol office!.  Imagine being pulled over by a Volkswagen Beetle!  To be fair, there is a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga and the trooper vehicles I saw on the streets were Ford Interceptors.

 

Tennessee Highway Patrol

Cummings Highway

Chattanooga, TN



happy valentine's day

 

While skimming through archived photographs to see if I had a Valentine-themed image for today, I came across this love bug and teddy bear with red satin heart-shaped pads on her paws.  How appropriate!  When Interstate 27 (all 123 miles of it from Lubbock to Amarillo) was constructed beginning in 1975. large excavations were made along the way to provide dirt for the overpasses.  On the south side of Hale Center, one enterprising family built a cabin on the edge of the pit, which in good years, is a small lake--this year the boat dock is several feet above the dry bed.  For decades, this VW has sat on the corner of the acreage along the frontage road.  Lately the teddy bear has appeared.  Know what she's holding?  A Budweiser.  She'd toast Valentine's Day and say "here's looking at you" but sadly she has no eyes! 

 

South I-27 Service Road

Hale Center, Texas

10.26.2013