CBS Evening News ran a story about a man that practices the ancient fine art of Anvil Shooting. A couple people wrote to me right after it ran asking if this was a relative of mine. They were both veterans of our now infamous Fourth of July parties. (We did not consider the parties a success until the police showed up answering a "someone set off ( Read more... )

Tampa, FL - We had fireworks after the game tonight. Wish I would have known they were coming, I would have prepared a little better.

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The University of Missouri-Rolla Explosives Camp

To bad I'm too old.

There are no two ways about it, in many ways I was simply born too soon. But in other ways I thank all that is Holy and a few things that aren't that I grew up in the time that I did.

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After the Florida All Star Game the proprietors of Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, FL. put on a right fine fireworks show. It may have have been a minor league game but it was a big league fireworks show. It impressed me anyway. Surprisingly I got lucky with the camera a few times. I really didn't expect anything decent from these shots.
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