I saw this tire on a car parked outside the local Costco Tire Center. In the U.S., this kind of tire is known as a donut, a temporary tire intended to get the car to the nearest garage for a proper fix. Those labels on the wheel explain, in four languages, the limitations of this spare tire together with the speed that should not be exceeded.
Judging from the state of the tire, I suspect the driver didn’t pay too much attention to those warnings.
This week’s Sunday Stills color challenge theme is ‘Black (and/or) Black-and-White.’ See more responses here.
My first thought, when I looked in the window of this hair salon in Kailua Kona, was that their waiting area was designed to discourage lingering!
The only advantage to working late is being around to see the sunset!
A Hawaiian Airlines plane comes in to land at Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keahole, the official name for the Kailua Kona airport.
The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 206. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
Elon Musk is in the news again (when is he not?) thanks to his falling out with Donald Duck Trump. This contretemps was big news, which is somewhat surprising since it seemed impossible for it not to happen. When you get two men with overinflated egos, who behave like five-year-olds, what does anyone expect to happen?
Elon is now backing off government work to return to his private interests, one of which is the electric vehicle company, Tesla. This photo is of one of those vehicles, which is commonly known as the Cybertruck.
This is the point where I should say something nice about the Cybertruck. However, the only thing that springs to mind is that I loved reading that raccoons have been climbing on these vehicles and scratching them. Apparently, they think they’re dumpsters! The downside of this news is that now, every time I see one of these vehicles, I can’t help but shout out ‘Muskrat in a dumpster!’ Yes, I can behave like a five-year-old too.
I’ve seen this Cybertruck several times, and I can’t decide whether the paint job makes the truck look better or worse than the usual shiny metal look. My initial thought is it’s worse. I thought the shiny metal look was the one redeeming feature of these trucks, and I liked the echo of the original Ford Model T, where Henry Ford allegedly said, “Any color the customer wants, as long as it’s black.” I wonder if Ford had any trouble with raccoons?
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