This Saturday is Thunder Over Louisville. Thunder is a 6-hour air show followed by (one of) the largest displays of fireworks in North America, and is the kickoff to Derby season.

Among the many, many planes flying on Saturday are the Blue Angles, and an F-22 Raptor Demonstration team. Today some of them are practicing. I expect this will ( Read more... )

I am in the mountains. The Eastern Sierras, to be more exact. The view from this cabin is incredible. I spent parts of the day sitting on the deck just staring out across Owens Valley to the mountains beyond. (The White Mountains & the Inyo Mountains.) Or up at the sky & the clouds & the Sierras, which thrust straight up behind from where I am ( Read more... )

Sorry. I posted photos of roses days ago, but apparently locked the entry while I was battling LJ to convince it to load all the pictures & forgot to unlock it. It's there now if you want to see a few pictures of roses. There may be more later.

I took dozens of pictures, but the point 'n' shoot camera on my phone did not cope well with the strong afternoon light. As a result I'm only posting the few pictures where I managed to balance color & light enough that I don't wince on viewing them.

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This seems like a good quote to post at the start of a trip.
    :)

Blessed are the flexible,
for they shall not be bent out of shape.

~Michael McGriffy, M.D.

Home from my trip. Suffering the same disorientation I always suffer, after going "home" for a visit. Isn't this home? Yes, it is now, but that other was home for so very long. It pulls at me ( Read more... )

Rule #1 of travel:

Things do not always go as planned. Sometimes the changes are fortuitous. Sometimes, not so much. Currently figuring out how to adjust things. It'll all work out. I'm just hoping I can get it to work out the way I want.

Too many people, too little time, nowhere near enough sleep. Fitting things into my schedule so tightly they are crammed into corners. Praying for fortune and luck and happenstance to allow for fortuitous scheduling. Fighting my own limitations and physical needs, and being forced to accept them, anyway ( Read more... )

Moonlight on snow on mountains. A lake I can only see the barest gleam of, through the dark. Slow cars. Fast cars. Triple-trailers. Snack mix. Two minutes at a rest stop. Driving music. Not enough sleep. Three hours at a rest stop. Waking, shivering. Dawn, fighting its way through the flurries of snow and the heavy gray clouds. Sheep who don' ( Read more... )

It's a pretty day out, in a blustery-bright California-winter sorta way. The scattered clouds make interesting shadows as they pass over the landscape. Junior is cruising the skies, getting tipped and bounced occasionally by the wind ( Read more... )