steveb’s leatherworks: daily blather

I need to make the pilgrimage to Daytona this year for Bike Week. After this weekend i am out of here for a bit.  Looking forward to getting out, stretching the legs, getting lost a few times with the rental car and shooting some pictures of one of my favorite subjects - motorcycles!
Actually there is [...]

after a stinking hot and humid weekend here in the Northeast, i thought back to this day in March, I believe..
old man winter is cruel - the last snow of the season is always a blind-sider, seems to hit just as you are reaching for your leather jacket and helmet, thinking…are we done with winter? Well in this [...]

Got an update from Jason, Northernmost operative of the steveb global worldwide network. He was checking snowpack and moose tracks …a vital and important aspect of our global warming thing…and J is on it..like stink on a dog. I love getting updates about the goings on all around…makes the world a great and smaller place…please [...]

If you keep your eyes open in the urban sprawl you can come upon some curious sites.
Hard to believe someone was actually playing in this sad, diesel dust covered excuse for snow on the side of a dangerously busy road……..but they were    

 
Not so bad - take a quick run out the back door before the day really starts.
Think on this view whilst your heading to work in your cage pilgrim.
Thanks for sharing Jason!

Winter in NYC these days aint shit.
Back in the day, a snowstorm shut it down
Getting shut down was a pretty normal event growing up.
Typical scene here. You can see my car buried in front of the house, while my old man’s had 4+ feet of snow on top of it drifting off the side of [...]