Dear mid-60s Buick caregivers,
It's official! The Solstice was over the weekend and it is now summertime!
It is certainly not going to be the same driving season as past years, but hopefully, most everyone will manage to get their cars out for a bit of exercise this year. While you are at it, don't forget your camera to share with us pictures of your beloved Buick!
To kick of the photo season, I managed to take 2 photos of my trusty wagon yesterday. Here is one in the parking lot of a local church:
This church has some space in which to expand and I wanted to capture what the dry hillsides are looking like these days in California. This photo has a lesson for would-be car photographers. I had hoped to have the sun illuminating the grill and passenger side of Biquette. Instead you can see that the sun is very harsh on the roof and hood, but the grill and tires in the shade. What happened to me is that I didn't take into account the slope of the hill which was tipping the car toward the sun. As a result, the sun was coming down almost directly on the roof and the lip of the hood was enough to keep the grill completely in the shade! As a general rule, you'll get better photographs the further away you get from the noontime sun.
Here is another photo of a similar scene:
This time the road was flat and the car is reasonably illuminated. The background is the new standards being required by the CAL FIRE to try to prevent the sort of uncontrolled burning that occurred in the Camp fire. Perhaps it is effective, but it sure looks hot, dry, and desolate!
So if you live in places with more pleasant backdrops -
please do post pictures of your car in your more hospitable surroundings! 
I sure would appreciate seeing classic cars in happier scenes than I'm surrounded with at the moment!
Cheers, Edouard
