Monthly Archives: July 2011

Welcome to Mazatlán.   We’re going to explore modes of travel at this tourist site.  That tractor is just the tip of the tropical iceberg, for behind it is a long trailer with lots of benches.  It was this this mode … Continue reading →

No, not even Pizza the Hut.  But I do believe Manny was looking right at me when I snapped this, don’t you think? This is the garage apartment which my parents, along with their first two baby girls, called home during the final … Continue reading →

Some undisclosed location in Mexico (cómo no).  And check out the “circle R” on the package. A double-secret location in Bavaria. A hidden cul-de-sac in gay Paris.  I’ve said enough already.

Aloha to you all.  I took this shot from the deck of our cruise ship just before it departed Honolulu in September, 2006.  Perfect photo op. I won’t mention which cruise lines we took, but if you know which one … Continue reading →

Nice, quiet, scenic place with courteous employees – except the ones trying to sell you a time-share.  Just don’t drink the water, and you’ll be fine, but Pepto Bismol is sold in Mexico, too.  Yes, as long as the driver who takes you back … Continue reading →

I took this photo of a crystal in Alabaster Caverns, Oklahoma, in July of 2010.  The cave lighting had been redone not too many years ago to replace it with cool lighting placed a bit more artistically. Cool, eh?

Some call these the “glass” mountains, but I believe they are more properly called the “gloss” mountains.  They lie somewhere between Oklahoma City and Alabaster Caverns, just sort of stuck out there on their own. Nice, eh?

Baby pelican on Marco Island, Florida, October 2007 A wonderful bird is the pelican, His mouth can hold more than his belly can. — Dixon Lanier Merritt (1879-1972)

I shall conclude this wartime waxing nostalgic with a little R & R at an appropriately-themed restaurant where we had dinner one night in Nashville in December of 2004.  It was much like a war just getting there, as we … Continue reading →

No photo this time, but I wanted to share the poem Dad wrote about his work on the Douglas Dauntless SBDs (short for Scout Bomber Douglas).  It was first published in the Naval Air Station’s newspaper, Delandings. With the Yagi … Continue reading →