"The rusty wire that holds the cork
That keeps the anger in,
Gives way
And suddenly
It's day again...
Two suns in the sunset,
Could be the Human Race has run..."
R. Waters - 1983

And suddenly
It's day again...
Two suns in the sunset,
Could be the Human Race has run..."
R. Waters - 1983

Some photos taken around the Ferdinand, IN area as the leaves began to turn.

Most of my short videos taken this year with the Canon S5-IS. The world around us, and those pesky humans, too.

Most of my short videos taken this year with the Canon S5-IS. Places, events and things of creation.

As found at Bolte's Service Center on Main Street. a 1952 Buick Super. $2475 when new, with 2 speed "Dynaslush" and a smooth running, low compression "straight-eight" with 124HP. This car is one of 55,400 - is well optioned with some rare GM accessories, and I hear it was acquired for less than a thousand dollars...

of 55,400 - is well optioned with some rare GM accessories, and I hear it was acquired for less than a thousand dollars...

Wow, the wingtip vortices, and the southwest skies. Beautiful.
Images are not processed and are just grabbed from the hi-rez NASA-TV online feed.

My sunflowers, grown from my birdseed (I was too late to find seed packets this summer.) serene and elegant, as the sun appeared from the morning fog.
A little moth then found its breakfast - and a wolf spider awaited its own meal.

wolf spider awaited its own meal.

The launch of Discovery. None of these images are post-processed or edited; these are just keyboard clicked as the replays were shown from NASA-TV.

The launch of Endeavour. None of these images are post-processed or edited; these are just keyboard clicked as the replays were shown from NASA-TV.

A drive From "Filldelfia" to Ocean City, NJ. Then, Back Home Again In Indiana.
(Eight videos in this album.)

Took the Amtrak from Philly to DC, and took two days around town.
I finally got to see the new National Air & Space Museum Annex over at Dulles.
(One video in this album.)

Alex moves back to his Mom's and I stop by the Home of Folks Older than I...

Strange concrete results of one person's mental illness, via a Mr. Dinsmoor.
http://www.garden-of-eden-lucas-kansas.com/index.html

Howard Hughes wanted something unique for his TWA airlines, and Lockheed delivered!
The Constellation first flew in 1943. (This rare but decaying beauty was built in 1949.)
The "Connie" was one of the last great prop-liners that were swept away when the "jet-age" arrived in the late 1950's.
http://www.conniesurvivors.com/N1206.htm

of the last great prop-liners that were swept away when the "jet-age" arrived in the late 1950's.
http://www.conniesurvivors.com/N1206.htm

A chopped-up B-47 and an older model B-52, just a fence away from their birthplace....
I understand this B-47 was once at Tinker AFB, then was displayed on pylons at the Oklahoma fairgrounds.
The rare B-47, in better days:
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1031970/

rare B-47, in better days:
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1031970/

More aerospace content from Kansas. Most from the Combat Air Museum and a few from the Cosmosphere, also.
http://www.combatairmuseum.org/
http://www.cosmo.org/

The end of an Era...
From Under the Rainbow to to the Quintescent Stage.

Photos from a roadtrip to Kansas and back.

The Mother Road - 83 years young...
Somewhere West of the Mississippi.

Pete Best, original drummer with The Beatles.
Taken at the concert at the "Beatlefest" in Benton, IL (Where George Harrison's sister once lived).
http://www.petebest.com is his official site.

My friend Julie's beautiful dogs.

The entire family went on an extravagant cruise to Alaska for my parent's 50th Anniversary.

The Gathering of P-51 Mustangs and legend pilots of aviation history, September 27-30, 2007 at Rickenbacker Field, Columbus, Ohio;
"The Final Roundup..."
http://www.gatheringfoundation.org/
(One video in this album.)

(One video in this album.)

The natural beauty that my ex-wife and I created; from a barren lot to a Secret Garden.

Photos from 2006 - Images of living things and their environment.

Images from 2006 - Various images of the Natural World, looking over and up.

Photos from 2006 - Mankind's impact on Nature; some good, some inconsequential, some...

Various, Sundry and Miscellaneous Images...

The only record of me driving my long departed 1957 Chevrolet.

A variety of miscellaneous videos uploaded for your viewing pleasure.

"It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen..." said Alex, as Goggly Gogol played in the background.

Gogol played in the background.