Monthly Archives: July 2011

My wife took this photo on a business trip seven years ago.  It looks so calm, cool, and inviting — it almost makes me forget about how hot it is right now where we live.

This is the primary type of plane Dad worked on to install and repair radar equipment.  The radar antenna, notably absent here, hung down near each wingtip and both could be rotated to fix a bearing on the target.  The type … Continue reading →

This painting will never hang alongside Monet or van Gogh, but it’s special to me because it was painted by my father.  It is the Bok Carillon Tower, known as the Singing Tower. I believe the date was 1945, and … Continue reading →

Whatever your political bent, you have to admit this is an amazing mozaic, made entirely of Jelly Belly jellybeans.  You can find this and other, similar works at the Regan Library.

From a trip we made last October.

I didn’t have a submersible camera, so my fish photos didn’t get much better than this on the snorkeling excursion we took to a bay south of Puerta Vallarta.  If I had such a camera, you would be looking at … Continue reading →

Well, maybe not a real movie star, but doesn’t she look like one?  Her dream never was to be a movie star, but rather to become a trapeze artist.  A trip to the circus was as close as she got … Continue reading →

Gonna stake my claim! One of the sights you will see as you float down the Bricktown canal is this determined gentleman greeting you.  He’s rushing to stake his land claim during the Oklahoma Land Rush.  Note the flagged stake under his … Continue reading →

This be not a ship under sail, mateys, but put yer backs to the wind and listen to me.  If you haven’t been to Oklahoma City in a while, you should really check it out.  In the summer of 2008, … Continue reading →

Or, Ketch the Wave. Or, Ketch as Ketch Can.  I could go on, but I won’t. Here’s one last offering from San Diego as we waited for our cruise ship to get under way.  There was quite a bit of … Continue reading →