Monthly Archives: July 2011

Not quite the Sooner Schooner

What a day it was in San Diego for photo opportunities!  Feast your eyes on this schooner sailing full-and-by.  Looks like quite a party taking place on deck.  I was on-deck, as well, but on a much bigger, much less … Continue reading

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Sail, ho!

Oh, how I love sailing ships!  This particular three-masted sloop was featured in the movie “Master and Commander, the Far Side of the World.”  I snapped photos of it back in 2008 as we were preparing to embark on a … Continue reading

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Man against nature

That’s Gramps tending to his field corn, a variety used primarily as livestock feed.  The date is no later than the summer of 1930, for that is the year he died.  He was only two years older than I am … Continue reading

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Brother against brother

This is one of the antique photos I promised.  It is my great-grandfather, David.  This photo was sent to me by one of my long-lost Tennessee cousins whom I discovered only after the advent of the Internet.  Tennessee is where David … Continue reading

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From July 4, 2009

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Countin’ flowers in the sky …

… while I eat my apple pie. No, this isn’t another flower, but it does sort of look like it, doesn’t it?  My wife took this photo during the display at the university last year. In Japan, however, the distinction … Continue reading

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Parade: July 4th, 2003

I wasn’t going to write anything today to go with these photos, because I decided the photos spoke for themselves–and they do–but I would like to commemorate the anniversary of a day thirty-nine yeas ago.  If memory serves me, it was … Continue reading

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It’s not looking good for our feathered friend

From the terrified look on Donald’s face, I think he must be saying, “Help! Time Pullers, translocate me outta here, quick!” Of course, he’d be saying it en español since I took this photo in Mazatlán, which most of you … Continue reading

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The man, the cow, the cheese.

I can never remember–was the man riding the cow that jumped over the moon, and he fell off, so now he’s in the moon?  And now the cow is so shaken that she gives green cheese instead of milk? How … Continue reading

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The sun rises … the sun sets.

I shot this sunrise in November of 2006 from our back yard.  Evokes memories of the conclusion Dorothy came to after returning to Kansas from Oz, eh? This is a sunset shot I did in the fall of 2009 at our “double … Continue reading

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